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For the sake of Finland’s welfare, it is crucial to safeguard our high level of expertise from early childhood education to the highest level of education and research.
Why do we need science?
None of us can predict which research will be useful in 2050. Therefore, policymakers need to fund curiosity-based research – it may not seem to solve any of the problems known today, but might prove vital tomorrow.
Through research, we are coming closer to defeating cancer and fighting covid-19, while constantly gaining new tools for mitigating climate change. With the help of research, we are training the best teachers in the world and we will understand the potential and problems of artificial intelligence. That’s why research matters.
Satu Mustjoki: Short-sighted funding for cancer research postpones breakthroughs
Great advances have been made in cancer research
Kaarle Hämeri: Why research matters
Research-based knowledge, skills and innovations pave the way forward.
Miikka Vuorela: Do harsh punishments deter crime?
We can make modern criminal policy better thanks to lessons learned from history.
Science Advocates
In the series Science Advocates, people describe the significance of research and research-based teaching for themselves.
Comment: Research Matters
Jutta Urpilainen: Social trust increases resilience in crises
Providing reliable information and strengthening democracy and transparency play an important role in increasing social trust and crisis...
Comment: Research Matters
Akseli Rouvari: Science helps us change the world
Science is the antidote to the challenges we are facing as a society as well as a light guiding us in the valley of darkness we traverse...
Comment: Research Matters
Ilkka Herlin: Science and responsibility
On a global scale, we are encountering such a variety of crises that the probability of large-scale disaster is shockingly high. All the while,...
Comment: Research Matters
Carmela Kantor-Aaltonen: Natural sciences are solving global problems
The coronavirus pandemic has elevated science, as well as the awareness of our inability to tackle the crisis without science, to fresh...
Comment: Research Matters
Mika Klemettinen: From an analogue world to a smart and digital information society
In the past decades, the world has changed to a considerable degree. Content has moved to the internet, there is no longer a need to fill in...
Comment: Research Matters
Tommi Laitio: Useful science
The coronavirus situation has highlighted the significance of science to society. Scientists have been asked to appear on television, in...
Comment: Research Matters
Journalist Heikki Valkama: Of all values, truth matters the most
The principal value of universities is truth. Not to be considered least, of the four values defined for the University of Helsinki, truth comes...
Mirkka Lappalainen: Without universities, history may become distorted
Educated scholars of history ensure that a diverse approach based on source criticism is applied to the writing of history.
Marko Virta: Finland could export expertise in antibiotic resistance
The spread of bacteria resistant to antibiotics has drawn comparisons with the threat posed by climate change.
Anu Kantola: Research broadens perspectives
Broader perspectives and information to support decision-making
Teemu Roos:
Without research we will transfer our bad habits to artificial intelligence
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Mission for the government 2019-2023
Transform higher education and science into a winning asset for Finland