JYU research projects receive €2.5m in EU Horizon Europe funding
The Ģֱ is coordinating two new Horizon Europe CL2 projects. GRUIEN, led by Professor Nathan Lillie, explores the promotion of a digital and green transition through revitalized and inclusive union–employer negotiations. JYU’s share of the project funding is about 490,000 euros.
DeCrises, coordinated by Senior Lecturer Farid Karim, has a twofold aim: demonstrate the shortcomings of the current administrative development guiding the twin-transition within the European Unionand suggest instead solutions to facilitate an equitable transition. JYU’s share of the project funding is about 600,000 euros.
Research Professor Terhi Nokkala is a partner in two projects. Building equitable future societies calls for multicultural and intercultural understanding. IntraComp explores how intercultural competence develops, how it can be assessed, and how formal education can learn from the best practices of NGOs operating in the field of performing arts. The second project, Meteor, supports the development of doctoral researchers’ broad-based competences in multidisciplinary international learning groups. The project’s findings will be used to make operational recommendations to universities and policymakers for the development of doctoral education. Funding for each of these projects is about 290,000 euros.
Professor Sari Pietikäinen is involved in a project where nine European universities have joined forces to investigate how mobility and AI impact young people’s multilingual communication practices and linguistic ideologies. JYU’s share of the funding is about 200,000 euros.
Academy Research Fellow Nerea Abrego and Academy Professor Otso Ovaskainen from the Ģֱ are involved in the LUKE-led project “Safeguarding biodiversity and carbon-rich forest networks in Europe”. Abrego and Ovaskainen have developed a modelling method for the coexistence of species, which in this project will be applied to the biodiversity of European forests, and especially to understand the connections between biodiversity and carbon supplies. JYU’s share of the funding is about 645,000 euros.
