Aronia Research 2014 : Forsknings- och utvecklingsinstitutet Aronia vid Åbo Akademi och Yrkeshögskolan Novia
Editoija
Mikael Kilpi
Yrkeshögskolan Novia
2015
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https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-7048-09-2
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-7048-09-2
Tiivistelmä
Markus Öst, senior researcher at the Aronia coastal zone research team (ACZRT), left Aronia to pick up a lectureship at Åbo Akademi at the end of the summer 2014. Well, our loss is somebody else´s gain, and Markus is now an important node for us at Åbo Akademi University. Aronia is after all a joint venture with Åbo Akademi.
In research, moving around is just the way things are, and export and import of skills is part of the game. Just a few reflections on that. Dr. Anssi Vähätalo, senior researcher in our first set of research team players, vent to Jyväskylä University. Post-doc Johan Ekroos went to the Centre for Environmental and Climate Re search at Lund University in Sweden, while his team-mate as post-doc Aleksi Lehikoinen went to the Finnish Museum of Natural History, where he now also runs his team the “Helsinki Lab of Ornithology”. Andreas Brutemark went back to Sweden to do consultancy work, while our past doctoral student Anu Vehmaa works as a researcher at Helsinki University. We must be doing something right since our people get funding and positions! The gain is clearly also ours, since our network of potential co-operation is growing and expanding.
Having just said that, you will see another facet of work at the fringes of applied science as you browse our report. Funding for projects of applied nature within the EU-funding frameworks come and go with a certain rhythm. Right now, terms come to an end, and the next period is just about to start, and in between there is an abyss of nothing. Clearly, with hindsight, also our project people move around and pop up here and there, and new ventures will eventually start up. But, focusing on keeping up the good work requires for us to maintain a nucleus of people able to drive projects from embryo to full bloom – and I put this frankly to our funders.
As always, we are truly thankful to our main funders, the Town of Raseborg. Konstsamfundet and Stiftelsen för Åbo Akademi for the input into our Coastal Zone Research Team, and to Novia. For the ACZRT, there is an upcoming half-term evaluation in 2015. I´m quite confident that the work they have done will prove to beup to standards, and we can move, full steam, ahead.
In research, moving around is just the way things are, and export and import of skills is part of the game. Just a few reflections on that. Dr. Anssi Vähätalo, senior researcher in our first set of research team players, vent to Jyväskylä University. Post-doc Johan Ekroos went to the Centre for Environmental and Climate Re search at Lund University in Sweden, while his team-mate as post-doc Aleksi Lehikoinen went to the Finnish Museum of Natural History, where he now also runs his team the “Helsinki Lab of Ornithology”. Andreas Brutemark went back to Sweden to do consultancy work, while our past doctoral student Anu Vehmaa works as a researcher at Helsinki University. We must be doing something right since our people get funding and positions! The gain is clearly also ours, since our network of potential co-operation is growing and expanding.
Having just said that, you will see another facet of work at the fringes of applied science as you browse our report. Funding for projects of applied nature within the EU-funding frameworks come and go with a certain rhythm. Right now, terms come to an end, and the next period is just about to start, and in between there is an abyss of nothing. Clearly, with hindsight, also our project people move around and pop up here and there, and new ventures will eventually start up. But, focusing on keeping up the good work requires for us to maintain a nucleus of people able to drive projects from embryo to full bloom – and I put this frankly to our funders.
As always, we are truly thankful to our main funders, the Town of Raseborg. Konstsamfundet and Stiftelsen för Åbo Akademi for the input into our Coastal Zone Research Team, and to Novia. For the ACZRT, there is an upcoming half-term evaluation in 2015. I´m quite confident that the work they have done will prove to beup to standards, and we can move, full steam, ahead.