Research Centres and Projects
Beside the National Centre of Excellence Programmes financed by the Academy of Finland, the multiscientific community at the University of Turku comprises numerous other successful researchers, research groups, centres and programmes. They guarantee the development of the University as an international research-led University and enable the combining of social and technonogical innovations. The different fields of science also conduct extensive co-operation with universities around the world and the researchers workin therein.
Ongoing Reseach Programmes of the Academy of Finland
- Information technology in Mental Health (Mieli.net)
- Evaluation of information technology in the out-patient care of adolescents with mental problems (Depis.net)
- ORIGINS of exclusion in early childhood
- Competition, cooperation and social capital
- Biologically guided nanoparticles - targeting, safety and imaging technology (BIOTARGET)
Nordic Centre of Excellence, funded by NordForsk
Other Research Centres, Projects and Programmes
- Acoustic Environments in Change
- Antibiotic Biosynthetic Enzymes (ABE)
- Amazon Research Team
- BioCity
- Biomaterials research
- Biomedical Interventions: Ethical and Social Implications of Human Bio- and Gene Technology
- Cardiorespiratory Research Unit
- Center for Reproductive and Developmental Medicine
- Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience
- Centre for Learning Research
- Centre for Parliamentary Studies
- Centre for Research on life long learning and education (CELE)
- Clinical Research Services
- Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) research
- Connecting Authorities for Safer Heavy Goods Traffic in the Baltic Sea Region (C.A.S.H.)
- Diabetes Prediction and Prevention Project (DIPP)
- Discourse Perspectives on Early English
- Educational Technology Unit
- Environmental Chemistry
- European Network for Biodiversity Information (ENBI)
- Extreflood - flood risk mapping
- Finlands Futures Research Centre
- Finnish Graduate School in Health Sciences
- Finnish University Network for East and Southeast Asian Studies
- From Village into Town
- History of travel and leisure
- Institute for Child and Youth Research
- Institute of Migration
- Integrated whole blood acoustophoresis and homogeneous nucleic acid detection cartridge for rapid sepsis diagnostics (ACUSEP)
- Kalevala-institute
- Laboratory of Electron Microscopy
- LIFE 2000 Who Owns Our Genes? Ethical and Social Issues
- Material Research
- Medical Informatics Research Centre in Turku
- Molecular Plant Biology
- Multidisciplinary hen egg research
- Nutrition, Allergy, Mucosal immunology and Intestinal Microbiota (NAMI)
- OMEGA (Development of Operational Monitoring System for European Glacial Areas)
- Orthopaedic Research Unit
- A Pen of One's Own - Cultural History of Women's Writing at the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
- Receptor Structure and Function
- Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine (CAPC)
- Research Unit for Volgaic Languages
- Rhabdosphincter Research Group
- Road ahead in the Medical Information Management
- Streptomyces Group
- Subarctic Research Station in Kevo
- The Lieto Study
- Turku Centre for Biomaterials (BMC)
- Turku Centre for Biotechnology
- Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS)
- Turku Center for Disease Modeling (TCDM)
- Turku Center for Welfare Research (TCWR)
- Turku Clinical Research Centre
- Turku Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
- Turku Immunology Centre (TIC)
- Turku PET Centre
- Turku School of Economics Research Project Search
- Urban Studies
- Vermeet (ICT and network-based working environment as a challenge for learning)
- Yersinia Research Laboratory