We visited places. We ate apricot dumplings. We drove on mountainous roads and experienced weather with commitment issues. We conquered dragons in Ljubljana. This created …
Kokkola is preparing an application to join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the field of Music in the 2027 application cycle. From the perspective of Centria’s Living Heritage research group, one of the region’s key strengths underpinning the application is living musical heritage – participatory and communal music-making that is passed down from one generation to the next while continuously evolving.
Some career paths are planned from the beginning. Mine was printed layer by layer.
In my previous post From chemistry student to research and development specialist, I shared more about how I found my way into the field of chemistry and eventually to Centria. This time, I would like to give you a glimpse into what RDI work looks like in practice and what my days usually consist of.
We aren’t fully aware of the impact of such micro-decisions that add up to generating approximately 2.3 billion tons of municipal solid waste each year …
What is a Hackathon? Originally hackathons were purely events in which coders would work on different types of systems building tasks in a short intensive …
If someone had questioned me a few years ago where I would imagine myself after graduation, I might not have replied "Working in a research laboratory in Finland."
My path toward chemistry was not clear and straightforward from an early age. As a child, I was convinced that I would become either a figure skater or a teacher. During lower secondary school, I became interested in business studies, and at the beginning of upper secondary school, I was fairly certain that I wanted to study medicine. Because of that, I focused heavily on science subjects.
For many companies, finding skilled labour is a challenge. At the same time, in Ostrobothnia there are many foreign-born residents with both competence and a strong willingness to work. The path into working life is nevertheless far from easy for those who have moved to the region from another country and who do not yet have strong proficiency in Swedish or Finnish.
Matter never stops resonating with the stories it has been through – and neither do the people who spend their lives reshaping it. That’s not …