JYU Excellence in Science

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EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE The University of Jyväskylä in the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research

Collaborative Projects, 37 %

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People, 18 %

JYU funding per type of funding scheme (%)

• 56 projects • 16 coordinated projects, including 6 ERC grants ERC, 11 %

THE ERC IN BRIEF

• An average of 12 organisations in a project • Project duration 3,5 years on average

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Supports the best of the best scientific efforts in Europe across all fields of science, scholarship and engineering.

Coordination and Support Actions, SME & Others, 34 %

• 207 million euros budgeted for the 56 projects

Promotes wholly investigator-driven, or bottom-up frontier research.

Faculty of Mathematics and Science, 46 %

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Grant sizes: €1.5m–€2.5m for five years.

Faculty of Information Technology, 4 %

JYU collaboration with different countries in FP7 projects:

The ERC counts 10 Nobel laureates and five Fields medalists among its grant holders.

Faculty of Humanities, 12 % 55 48

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Over 20,000 articles acknowledging ERC-funding have appeared in peerreviewed high impact journals between 2008 and 2013.

JYU funding per faculty (%)

Faculty of Education, 9 %

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Each ERC grantee employs on average six team members, thus contributing to train a new generation of excellent researchers.

Under Horizon 2020, it is estimated that around 7,000 grantees will be funded and 42,000 team members supported, offering cutting-edge research training for nearly 11,000 doctoral students and almost 16,000 postdoctoral researchers.

Independent Institutes, 5 % Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, 4 % Faculty of Social Sciences, 20 %

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Luxembourg

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Latvia

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Japan

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JRC

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Canada

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USA

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Serbia

Hungary

Czech Republic

Norway

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Austria

Denmark

Portugal

Poland

Greece

Netherlands

Belgium

Sweden

Switzerland

Finland

African countries

France

Italy

Spain

Germany

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Malta

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Lithuania

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Bulgaria

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Russia

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Ireland

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India

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Cyprus

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Slovenia

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Turkey

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Slovakia

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Israel

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Estonia

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United Kingdom

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• 621 partner organisations

Strengthening research over the Horizon 2020 The University of Jyväskylä is one of the most successful multidisciplinary research universities in Finland.

The University has strong ties with top national and international research, business and innovation communities. In order to enhance our international competitiveness, it is important that we recruit exceptional international research scientists to Jyväskylä. For this reason, we welcome renowned scientists to our research community and support their close collaboration with international universities. An important form of this collaboration has been research within the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7). The collaboration will be further strengthened in the Horizon 2020 programme, which began in the beginning of 2014 and will run to 2020. University of Jyväskylä has had an excellent kick-start to Horizon 2020 programme and we have been successful in the first rounds for calls for proposal.

The University of Jyväskylä attracts partners with a staff of highly talented and creative scientists, an excellent infrastructure, and our commitment to success. The University is sustainably competitive, attractive and innovative. During Horizon 2020 and beyond, our impact on society will be significant.

It is my pleasure to present these excellent showcases of the University of Jyväskylä in the Seventh Framework Programme. I’d also like to thank our partner universities. I invite them as well as new partners to collaborate with us during Horizon 2020.

Professor Matti Manninen Rector

CORE RESEARCH FIELDS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ • Learning, teaching and growth and learning environments that support development

• Basic natural phenomena and mathematical thinking

• Languages, culture and communities in global change processes

• Physical activity, health and well-being

• Information technology and human in knowledge society

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Marja Tiirola:

FOCUS ON THE MICROBIAL WORLD Functional analysis of uncultivated microbes using radioisotope probing (Micro-RIP), ERC Consolidator Grant, 2014–2019, Department of Biological and Environmental Science MARJA TIIROLA, professor in environmental microbiology, completed her doctoral thesis in molecular biology in 2002 and accepted her docentship in environmental microbiology in 2007. Professor Tiirola has led projects funded by the Academy of Finland, various foundations, Nordic and EU programmes.

In 2014, she began her work as the first ERC Consolidator Grant recipient at the University of Jyväskylä.

Before receiving the ERC grant, Tiirola had worked at the University of Jyväskylä for 12 years as a post-doc, researcher and lecturer. Even though she finds writing the funding applications to be one of her most exciting and beneficial tasks as a

group leader, the large ERC grant gave her the unique possibility to concentrate on her research, employ more senior staff and make a long research visit to Scripps Institution for Oceanography (San Diego, USA), which had been her dream for many years.

Tiirola’s new Micro-RIP project introduces a novel technology called radioisotope probing (RIP). This approach is based on the development of pH-sensitive semiconductor sensors that can be utilized for the analysis of radioactivity and chemiluminescence. When the method is combined with high-throughput semiconductor sequencing, the technology offers two-dimensional analysis of millions of biomolecules on a sequencing chip. The Micro-RIP project aims to use this novel tool for studying functional diversity, transcriptional regulation and mRNA processing in microbial communities. These are the parameters that regulate global carbon and nitrogen cycling, especially microbial decomposition and greenhouse gas fluxes.

Tiirola says, “We are developing tools to characterize millions of molecules at one shot, which is a challenging task. In addition to resolving some burning questions in environmental microbiology,” she continues, “our work may offer new possibilities for genetics and medical science.”

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Mesoscopic heattronics: thermal and nonequilibrium effects and fluctuations in nanoelectronics (Heattronics), ERC Starting Grant, 2010–2015, Department of Physics TERO HEIKKILÄ, a professor of theoretical condensed matter physics at the University of Jyväskylä, completed his doctoral thesisin 2002 at the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University). Since then he has been awarded a number of Academy of Finland grants and in 2010 he began work as an ERC Starting Grant researcher. Research work has taken Professor Heikkilä to several foreign universities, including the University of Karlsruhe (Germany), the University of Basel (Switzerland), Lancaster University (UK), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) and New York State University (USA).

In the Heattronics project, Professor Heikkilä studies the emergence of subsystem temperatures in different types of small electronic systems and the physical

During the project, Heikkilä’s team has made fundamental predictions regarding the fluctuations of temperature in small electronic systems and concerning the presence of a huge thermoelectric effect in superconductor–ferromagnet junctions.

They have shown how the supercurrent through small junctions can be tuned via microwave radiation as well as how nanomechanical systems can be used as quantum-limited amplifiers. In addition, they have proposed a mechanism for how mechanical vibrations can be strongly coupled to optical resonators and described how electrons couple to lattice vibrations in graphene, a single layer of graphite. Presently the team is working on a concept that would allow for a dramatic increase in the critical temperature of superconductors. The results have been published in close to 40 research papers.

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INFORMATION ON HEAT

phenomena associated with those temperatures. Few systems in nature are entirely in equilibrium. When systems are out of equilibrium, there are heat currents and different degrees of freedom, or it may be that parts of the systems being studied could be described by entirely different temperatures if the concept of temperature is at all well-defined. The research emphasis is on mesoscopic effects, residing between the microscopic world of individual atoms and electrons, and the macroscopic everyday world.

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Paul Greenlees:

SUPER-HEAVY RESEARCH INTO SUPER-HEAVY NUCLEI Understanding the Structure and Stability of Heavy and Super-Heavy Elements (SHESTRUCT), ERC Starting Grant, 2008–2014, Department of Physics PAUL GREENLEES, Research Professor in Physics, came to the University of Jyväskylä from Liverpool to work as a postdoctoral researcher in 1998. He was awarded an Academy Research Fellow position in the Department of Physics in 2005 and he was a successful candidate for an ERC Starting Grant in 2007.

Greenlees’ research team is composed of one postdoctoral researcher and two doctoral students. The research is carried out within a nuclear spectroscopy group of 15 researchers. The research project included the construction of a novel spectrometer to be used in experiments that cannot be performed at other facilities worldwide.“We are expecting to obtain significant results with it,”says Greenlees.

Greenlees’ project aims to further our understanding of the existence of nuclei with a very large number of nucleons (protons and neutrons). Put simply, when the number of protons in a nucleus is increased enough, the nucleus should be ripped apart by the repulsive forces that exist between the charged protons, following the principle that like charges repel. However, the quantum nature of the nucleus means that these repulsive forces can be overcome, and these “super-heavy” nuclei still survive. It is these quantum aspects that Greenlees and his team are seeking to understand better.

During the project, the team has co-authored almost twenty publications related to this topic, including a Physical Review Letter that was featured on the website of the American Institute of Physics. In addition, one student has completed his doctoral studies and moved on to a postdoctoral position at TRIUMF in Canada. The team members and international collaborators participating in the experiments of the SHESTRUCT project have presented at numerous international conferences.

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Subjectivity and Selfhood in the Arabic and Latin Traditions (SSALT), 2009–2012, Department of History and Ethnology

TANELI KUKKONEN completed his doctoral thesis“Studies in Modality and Cosmology” at the University of Helsinki in 2002. Since then he has received many grants from the Academy of Finland and in 2009 he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant.

In his SSALT project, Kukkonen provided a historically accurate and philosophically compelling picture of how conceptions of selfhood and consciousness developed in the history of Western thought from late antiquity to the dawn of the modern age. He investigated the various accounts of selfhood and subjectivity in ancient and medieval philosophy, focusing on the implications for moral and political theory in these competing strands of moral psychology. His intention was to throw light on classical texts in which

the Western notions of subjectivity and moral agency were established, while also accounting for the multiple ways in which these notions were transformed in the Middle Ages.

Apart from this combined approach to the two aspects of selfhood (subjective experience and moral agency), SSALT was unique in the breadth of its scope. Kukkonen’s team included experts in late ancient, medieval Arabic, medieval Latin, and early modern philosophy. The team examined a wide range of philosophical texts, medical manuals, as well as theological and spiritual literature to form a comprehensive picture of the ways in which subjectivity and selfhood were understood in the Christian and Islamic cultures of the Middle Ages.

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INVESTIGATING THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN THOUGHT

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Mikko Salo:

SOLVING INVERSE PROBLEMS

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Inverse Problems in Partial Differential Equations and Geometry, 2012–2017, Department of Mathematics and Statistics ACADEMY RESEARCH Fellow and Professor Mikko Salo completed his PhD in Applied Mathematics in 2004. He has received research grants from the Academy of Finland and was given the Academy of Finland Award for Scientific Courage in 2011. The next major step was an ERC Starting Grant in 2012. Salo continued his work at the University of Jyväskylä and chose the Department of Mathematics and Statistics as the host for his ERC grant. The department is well known for its high-quality international research and innovative teaching techniques. Mikko Salo raised the department’s profile by recruiting distinguished postdoctoral researchers from around the world.

Inverse problems research concentrates on the mathematical theory and practical interpretation of indirect measurements. Applications are found in virtually every research field involving scientific, medical, or industrial imaging and mathematical modelling. Familiar examples include X-ray computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The method of inverse problems makes it possible to employ important advances in modern mathematics in a vast range of application areas. The applications inspire significant

new mathematical questions and promote close connections with other sciences. This has made inverse problems research one of the most important fields of modern applied mathematics.

A major challenge for the project team is Calderón’s problem of inverse conductivity, which forms the basis of electrical impedance tomography (EIT), an imaging modality proposed for early breast cancer detection and non-destructive testing of industrial parts. The geometric version of Calderon’s problem is one of the most significant unsolved questions in the field. It is connected with the recent theory of cloaking devices – structures that would not only make an object invisible but also undetectable to electromagnetic waves.

It seems Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak just might become reality one day after all.

Salo says that “the five-year grant makes it possible to concentrate on long-term objectives without having to worry about funding for the short term. The possibility to devote more time for research, to recruit people and to invite international experts to Jyväskylä helps the research of the topic vastly”.

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Transnational Work and the Evolution of Sovereignty, 2011–2014, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy NATHAN LILLIE is a lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy.

He received a PhD in Industrial Relations from Cornell University, and after that he was a Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium and then an Associate Professor at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands. He received his ERC Starting Grant in 2011 while working in Groningen, but chose to bring his research group to Finland.

After receiving the ERC grant, the biggest challenge for Lillie was to scale up his work. Lillie leads a team of one postdoctoral researcher and three graduate students.

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Lillie’s project investigates the growth of posted work in the EU. Posted work means that an employer sends an employee abroad from low-wage EU countries to high-wage ones to work as cheap labour. Posted work is important because, under EU rules, countries do not have full sovereignty over the labour conditions of posted workers in their territory, reinforcing the tendency of EU labour markets to become segmented by nationalities. For example, a Polish construction worker in Germany working for a Polish subcontractor does not have the same rights as a German or Polish worker working for a German contractor because his employment is in many respects regulated from Poland. The study involves interviews with posted workers around Europe.

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ENSURING FIRST-CLASS INFRASTRUCTURE:

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Department of Physics in FP7 infrastructure projects

ACCORDING to an international scientific evaluation from 2012, the research infrastructure for physics at the University of Jyväskylä is excellent. Furthermore, the activity and quality of the research has also been evaluated to be at a high level. The department’s accelerator laboratory is significant in its field and exists as a unique environment in the Nordic countries as well as internationally.

Due to the excellent quality of our research infrastructure, the Department of Physics has been invited to five projects within the FP7 infrastructure.

The projects are directed in Jyväskylä by Professor Rauno Julin, Professor Jukka Maalampi and Researcher Heikki Penttilä.

THE PROJECTS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: • European Nuclear Science and Applications Research (ENSAR) • Facility for antiproton and ion research (FP4-FAIR)

• Design of a pan-European infrastructure for Large Apparatus studying Grand Unification and Neutrino Astrophysics (LAGUNA) • Design of a pan-European Infrastructure for Large Apparatus studying Grand Unification, Neutrino Astrophysics and Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations (LAGUNA-LBNO) • European Research Infrastructures for Nuclear Data Applications (ERINDA) The largest of the projects is ENSAR. It aims to provide access for researchers to seven large-scale, world-class facilities. Through ENSAR, nuclear scientists benefit from the diverse range of research infrastructures in Europe, meaning different ion beams and energies can be investigated. The participating universities and institutes strive to make the most efficient use of these facilities and to develop the most advanced and novel equipment. To enhance the access to these facilities in Jyväskylä, the community has defined a number of joint research activities, using promising scientific and technical prospects as the main criterion for participation.

RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES: New knowledge depends on the quality and availability of research infrastructures such as observatories, data banks, radiation sources and communication networks.

Programmes such as FP7 optimise the use and development of the best research infrastructures in Europe.

A main goal is to create new research infrastructures of pan-European interest in all fields of science and technology.

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DURING THE FP7 PROGRAMME, the University of Jyväskylä has participated in three Initial Training Networks projects. The SPECIATION project (Understanding the evolutionary origin of biological diversity) was funded in the very first ITN call of the Marie Curie Actions programme. In Jyväskylä, the project was headed by Professor Anneli Hoikkala.

The aim was to train nine young scientists to the PhD level in biological disciplines as well as to deepen our understanding of the evolutionary origin of biological diversity. The students were seconded to non-academic institutions that represented endusers of their research as well as potential employers, including commercial laboratories and museums. The project consortium had four network partners and seven additional organisations as associated partners.

The Department of Biological and Environmental Science has also participated in another ITN project, Muscle z-disk protein complexes: From atomic structure to physiological function (MUZIC).

Professor Jari Ylänne from Jyväskylä was the principal investigator of the project. The project’s nine partners and two associated partners provided a unique blend

of cellular and structural biology laboratories with a focus on muscle research, all united by the MUZIC network. The project aimed to bridge the gap between cellular and structural biology by training young researchers as cellular structural biologists, a new and versatile research title.

In the projects, the students received advanced training as part of their individual research projects as well as through complementary actions that developed their skills in management, communication and teamwork.

INITIAL TRAINING NETWORKS (ITN): offer early-stage researchers an opportunity to improve their research skills for 36 months, join established research teams and enhance their career prospects. At least three participants collaborate to propose a coherent programme for an ITN. The participants can be universities, research centres or companies (large or small).

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Department of Biological and Environmental Science

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NETWORKING RESEARCHERS IN MARIE CURIE INITIAL TRAINING NETWORKS (ITN) PROJECTS:

TAMÁS PÉTER SZABÓ

ERLE RIKMANN

PHILIPPOS PAPADAKIS

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MARIE CURIE INTRA-EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIP FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT (IEF) PROJECTS:

TALENTED INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHERS TO JYVÄSKYLÄ Centre for Applied Language Studies, Department of Physics, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy

THE UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ received funding for three individual Marie Curie fellowships from the FP7 programme in 2013.

The duration of each fellowship is two years and the research fellows receiving the funding will work in their respective research groups between 2014 and 2016. The first IEF fellow of JYU was PhD Claudia Wiesner at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy.

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Cypriot research fellow PHILIPPOS PAPADAKIS joins Professor Paul Greenlees’ research team at the Department of Physics to undertake experimental research on the atomic nucleus in the MARAgas project. The project concentrates on the investigation of nuclei with an almost equal number of protons and neutrons in the region of 100Sn. Papadakis will establish collaboration with other European Universities to

ERLE RIKMANN (PhD), Marie Curie research fellow from Estonia, joins the group on civil society research at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy.

This research group consists of a multidisciplinary team of professors, postdoctoral researchers and students. Markku Lonkila, professor of sociology, will be Rikmann’s host during her stay. At the department, Rikmann will carry out the TRANSDOM project investigating civic and political activism on the Russian-language Internet among young Russianspeakers living in Finland and Estonia.

Rikmann’s Marie Curie fellowship forms part of the activities of the research group on civil society: “Currently there are several professors, post-docs and students working on participation, activism, social movements and civil society organizations at our department,”says professor Lonkila.“Rikmann’s

fellowship fits in seamlessly with the group’s ongoing research.” Rikmann’s research investigates the activities of young Russian speakers in the Russianlanguage blogosphere. It will yield new information on civic and political online activism, and contribute to the studies of transnationalism and migration.

“Given the current political situation, these topics are of both academic and political interest,”professor Lonkila continues.“The fellowship will contribute to Rikmann’s own career as a high-level international expert.”The research will strengthen the link between the Finnish and Estonian research communities and contribute to the already existing internationalization and comparative thrust of the department’s research.

INTRA-EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIP (IEF): offers postdoctoral researchers from EU Member States or Associated Countries an opportunity to acquire new research skills and work in other sectors. The fellowships are designed for researchers willing to develop their career in Europe outside of their home country. The IEF is a good way to broaden a researcher’s horizons and improve career prospects. Research projects are carried out on the premises of a host organization in an EU or Associated Country.

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For Szabó, the Finnish education system is a source of inspiration that provides cooperation-focused and process-centred practices as good examples, but which also offers a comparative perspective from which to analyse Hungarian phenomena. The Jyväskylä Language Campus offers an excellent research and training environment for him, enhancing his position as an international scholar.

develop new experimental tools which, together with continuing developments in the field, will open a path to the study of nuclei that are beyond the reach of current experimental setups. Papadakis’ project aims to provide new knowledge on the creation of elements in the universe through the consecutive rapid capture of protons. Additionally, the study of nuclei with an almost equal number of protons and neutrons will provide valuable information on the interactions between these particles. The fellowship provides Papadakis with the opportunity to establish himself as an independent researcher and to pursue long-term academic positions in the future.

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At the Centre for Applied Language Studies, Hungarian research fellow TAMÁS PÉTER SZABÓ investigates various forms of discourse, ideology and interaction in Hungarian education within the project ‘Finding own words’, hosted by Professor Tarja Nikula. Classroom observations, interviews and school-related media content serve as data for investigating the practices of teachers, students and parents. Szabó visits Hungarian and Finnish schools to gather new data for corpus building. The study seeks to promote school members’ agency and to develop democratic environments in which they can discover their own ways of acting and thus find and voice their ‘own words’.

Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies

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14 FEWER FALLS, LESS FEAR, GREATER QUALITY OF LIFE: Ubiquitous care system to support independent living (CONFIDENCE), 2008–2011, FP7 ICT, Agora Center

FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE, the fear of falling may account for 40 percent of nursing home admissions.

The fear of falling decreases people’s quality of life and increases the risk of becoming unable to perform daily activities. Most of the care systems on the market are limited to detecting falls.

The innovation of the system developed in the CONFIDENCE project is that it not only detects falls, but also identifies unexpected short- and longterm behaviour that could indicate health problems and functional decline. The system increases the confidence, independence and quality of life of older people.

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS: Research projects carried out by consortia with participants from different countries, aiming to develop new knowledge, new technology, products, demonstration activities or common resources for research. The size, scope and internal organisation of projects can vary according to the field and the topic.

For the project, the University of Jyväskylä collaborated with nine European organisations.

This multidisciplinary research resulted in a working prototype that integrates technologies for the detection of abnormal events in indoor environments. The end-users were involved in the project and they co-defined specifications, monitored the progress of the project, and performed usability tests with the prototypes.

One of the nine work packages was led by Senior Researcher Narciso Gonzalez Vega from Agora Center. The tasks addressed the analysis of the compliance of the system with the enduser needs, as well as psychological and ethical issues. Iteratively, the Agora Center provided end-user needs and requirements analyses as well as specifications. The CONFIDENCE 2010 International Conference was organised in Jyväskylä. Usability and acceptability tests of the working prototypes were other significant contributions of the Agora Center.

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WORKING WITH EXILED POPULATIONS, socalled diasporas, from conflict regions in order to improve conditions in their countries of origin is a challenge for policy makers and practitioners. Even if the potential for such cooperation has recently been recognised, there is little practical advice available for those who seek to develop it. Moreover, these engagements and interactions constitute a field of research which has not been studied in depth. Based on studies in the Horn of Africa – one of the key conflict settings in Africa – DIASPEACE has generated policy-relevant, evidence-based knowledge of how diasporas from conflict regions fit into the dynamics of security in their countries of origin.

Based on the extensive empirical data collected both from Europe and Africa, the researchers produced a number of journal articles, open access working papers and an edited book. In addition to scientific contributions, the project produced a handbook for policy makers and practitioners that offers

straightforward suggestions for cooperating with transnational communities.

The consortium involved six partners from Europe (Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway and the Netherlands) and two from the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia and Somaliland). Consisting of different types of institutions, from universities to non-governmental organisations, it brought together practical experience and cross-disciplinary scientific expertise from the fields of political science, sociology, anthropology, conflict analysis and migration studies.

The project was coordinated by Professor Liisa Laakso and Research Coordinator Pekka Virtanen from the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä.

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Patterns, trends and potential of long-distance diaspora involvement in conflict settings, case studies from the Horn of Africa (DIASPEACE), FP7 SSH, 2008–2011, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy

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DIASPORAS FOR PEACE:

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Public Empowerment Policies for Crisis Management (PEP) 2012 – 2014, Architecture, Technologies and Operational Procedures (CATO) 2012 – 2014, and Developing a Crisis Communication Scorecard (CrisComScore) 2008 – 2011, FP7 Security, Department of Communication /Agora Center

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RESEARCH AND SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES IN RISK AND CRISIS

PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANISATIONS need to communicate and monitor before, during and after emergencies, but they also seek to empower citizens by enhancing response capabilities. Professor Marita Vos from the Department of Communication has coordinated two FP7 security research projects and participated in a third. These projects generate new knowledge that addresses current gaps in international research as well as provide tools for public organisations.

The PEP project investigates how the crisis response capabilities of the public can be enhanced and analyses public empowerment policies to see which are the most successful in realising this aim. Empowering the public to be better prepared for crises is a logical way to strengthen crisis management. Nowadays authorities realise that citizens’ behaviour is vital to crisis preparedness, response and recovery.

The CATO project contributes to preparedness for more threatening crises. The project develops a comprehensive toolbox for dealing with crises due to terrorist attacks using non-conventional weapons

on facilities with chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear materials. The project also provides guidelines for communication with citizens.

Large-scale accidents and natural disasters such as floods and forest fires, pandemics and terrorist attacks have tested the ability of public authorities in Europe to communicate efficiently with various stakeholder groups. The CrisComScore project created a strategy tool called the Crisis Communication Scorecard for this purpose. The tool offers a framework for evaluating and improving crisis communication, and assists in communication planning.

For more information: www.crisiscommunication.fi

COORDINATION AND SUPPORT ACTIONS Support for activities aimed at coordinating or supporting research activities and policies (networking, exchanges, transnational access to research infrastructures, studies, conferences and more).

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FP7 HEALTH 2009–2013, Gerontology Research Center, Department of Health Sciences

RESEARCH ON AGING has a long tradition at the Department of Health Sciences. The Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences is unique in Finland and it has a history of international collaboration in research projects. With 19 different partner organisations, the MYOAGE project is one of the largest collaborative project consortiums among the FP7 research projects at the University of Jyväskylä. Professor Sarianna Sipilä leads the scientific work in MYOAGE. The ageing of skeletal muscle results in a progressive loss of mobility. This decreases the quality of life and has major economic and social consequences for society at large. Age-induced changes in the skeletal muscle include sarcopenia (loss in muscle mass) and weakness (loss in muscle force). In addition, older muscles are more susceptible to damage and consequently regenerate and recover more slowly than in their youth.

The project defined the parameters of healthy muscle ageing versus impaired muscle ageing, and provided strategies to combat sarcopenia and promote healthy aging. It investigated muscle tissue from older (over 70 years) individuals with and without muscle weakness

and compared them to tissue from healthy young adults (18 – 30) from the physiological, cellular and molecular point of view to clearly define the phenotype and biomarkers of age-related muscle weakness.

In order to develop efficient countermeasures and propose them to the general public, the consortium integrated data from genetics and epidemiology, molecular and cellular biology, physiology, biomechanics, along with considering clinical and public health aspects.

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UNDERSTANDING AND COMBATING HUMAN AGE-RELATED MUSCLE WEAKNESS (MYOAGE):

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SHESTRUCT..................ERC Starting Grant......................................................... Department of Physics.............................................................. Greenlees Paul..............................2008 – 2014 InvProbGeomPDE........ERC Starting Grant......................................................... Department of Mathematics and Statistics........................... Salo Mikko.....................................2012 – 2017 SSALT .............................ERC Starting Grant......................................................... Department of History and Ethnology................................... Kukkonen Taneli...........................2009 – 2013 TWES..............................ERC Starting Grant......................................................... Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy.................. Lillie Nathan.................................. 2011 – 2014 Heatronics.....................ERC Starting Grant......................................................... Department of Physics.............................................................. Heikkilä Tero.................................. 2010 – 2015 Micro-Rip.......................ERC Consolidator Grant................................................ Department of Biological and Environmental Science....... Tiirola Marja................................... 2014 – 2019

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ANDES ...........................Nuclear Fission and Radiation Protection.................. Department of Physics.............................................................. Penttilä Heikki............................... 2010 – 2013 BELBar............................Nuclear Fission and Radiation Protection.................. Department of Physics.............................................................. Kataja Markku................................ 2012 – 2016 CATO..............................Security............................................................................. Department of Communication............................................. Vos Marita...................................... 2012 – 2014 Confidence ..................Information & communication technologies............ Agora center............................................................................... Gonzalez Vega Narciso...............2008 – 2011 CRESTA .........................Information & communication technologies............ Department of Physics.............................................................. Timonen Jussi............................... 2011 – 2014 CrisComScore .............Security............................................................................. Department of Communication............................................. Vos Marita......................................2008 – 2011 DIASPEACE ...................Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities....... Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy.................. Laakso Liisa/Virtanen Pekka....... 2008–2011 ESAIL ..............................Space................................................................................ Department of Physics.............................................................. Koivisto Hannu............................. 2010 – 2013 FLOWS............................Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities....... Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy.................. Kröger Teppo................................ 2011 – 2014 InSOTEC .......................Nuclear Fission and Radiation Protection.................. Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy.................. Litmanen Tapio............................. 2011 – 2014 LAGUNA ........................Research infrastructures............................................... Department of Physics.............................................................. Maalampi Jukka............................2008 – 2011 LAGUNA-LBNO ...........Research infrastructures............................................... Department of Physics.............................................................. Maalampi Jukka............................ 2011 – 2014 MEDIADEM ...................Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities....... Department of Communication............................................. Kuutti Heikki.................................. 2010 – 2013 META-PREDICT............Health............................................................................... Department of Biology of Physical Activity.......................... Kainulainen Heikki........................ 2011 – 2015 MYOAGE .......................Health............................................................................... Department of Health Sciences.............................................. Sipilä Sarianna...............................2009 – 2013 SkyFlash ........................Space................................................................................ Department of Physics.............................................................. Virtanen Ari.................................... 2011 – 2014 UMSIC ...........................Information & communication technologies............ Department of Music................................................................ Paananen-Vitikka Pirkko.............2008 – 2011 VALORGAS.....................Energy............................................................................... Department of Biological and Environmental Science....... Kaparaju Prasad............................ 2010 – 2013 SimPhoNy......................Nanoscience, Nanotechnologies,............................... Department of Physics.............................................................. Timonen Jussi............................... 2014 – 2016

Materials and New production Technologies CARE...............................Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities....... Department of Teacher Education......................................... Lerkkanen Marja-Kristiina........... 2014 – 2016 Transmango..................Knowledge Based Bio-Economy................................. Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy.................. Silvasti Tiina................................... 2014 – 2018

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eBEREA...........................International Research Staff Exchange Scheme....... Computer Science and Information Systems....................... Heikkilä Marikka............................ 2010 – 2013 EUPOLCON ..................Intra-European Fellowship........................................... Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy.................. Palonen Kari.................................. 2010 – 2013

for career development MUZIC............................Initial Training Networks................................................ Department of Biological and Environmental Science....... Ylänne Jari.................................... 2009 – 2013 SPECIATION .................Initial Training Networks................................................ Department of Biological and Environmental Science....... Hoikkala Anneli............................ 2008 – 2012 SPEDE.............................Career Integration Grant............................................... Department of Physics.............................................................. Pakarinen Janne...........................2012 – 2016 MANET...........................Initial Training Networks................................................ Department of Mathematics and Statistics........................... Koskela Pekka...............................2014 – 2016 LITERATE........................International Research Staff Exchange Scheme....... Agora Center.............................................................................. Richardson Ulla............................2013 – 2015 Finding Own Words.....Intra-European Fellowship........................................... Centre for Applied Language Studies.................................... Nikula Tarja....................................2014 – 2016 MARAgas........................Intra-European Fellowship........................................... Department of Physics.............................................................. Julin Rauno...................................2015 – 2017 Transdom.......................Intra-European Fellowship........................................... Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy.................. Lonkila Markku..............................2015 – 2017

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Irresistible......................Science in Society.......................................................... Department of Teacher Education......................................... Viiri Jouni....................................... 2014 – 2016 ENSAR............................Research infrastructures............................................... Department of Physics.............................................................. Julin Rauno...................................2010 – 2014 CAAST-Net ...................International cooperation............................................. Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy.................. Gould Jeremy...............................2008 – 2011 CAAST-Net Plus............International cooperation............................................. Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy.................. Gould Jeremy...............................2013 – 2016 BIOCLUS........................Regions of knowledge................................................... Department of Biological and Environmental Science....... Wihersaari Margareta.................. 2009 – 2012 TEL-Map.........................Information & communication technologies............ Computer Science and Information Systems....................... Pawlowski Jan..............................2010 – 2013 FAIR ................................Research infrastructures............................................... Department of Physics.............................................................. Penttilä Heikki...............................2007 – 2012 Digital Ocean ...............Research for the benefit of SMEs................................ Agora center............................................................................... Kankaanranta Marja..................... 2011 – 2012 HILYSENS ......................Research for the benefit of SMEs................................ Department of Biological and Environmental Science....... Gilbert Leona................................ 2010 – 2013 ERINDA .........................Nuclear Fission and Radiation Protection.................. Department of Physics.............................................................. Penttilä Heikki............................... 2010 – 2013 FAMILYPLATFORM.......Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities....... Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy.................. Jokinen Kimmo............................ 2009 – 2011 PEP..................................Security............................................................................. Department of Communication............................................. Vos Marita......................................2012 – 2014 Pri-Sci-Net.....................Science in society........................................................... Department of Teacher Education ........................................ Asunta Tuula.................................. 2011 – 2014 S-TEAM..........................Science in society........................................................... Department of Teacher Education ....................................... Viiri Jouni.......................................2009 – 2012 ASSIST-ME.....................Science in society........................................................... Department of Teacher Education ........................................ Viiri Jouni.......................................2013 – 2017 BIOSTIRLING-4SKA.....Energy............................................................................... Department of Chemistry........................................................ Konttinen Jukka............................ 2013 – 2016 CAAST-Net TopUp.......International cooperation............................................. Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy.................. Gould Jeremy............................... 2011 – 2012 CRONOS........................Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies,............................. Department of Physics.............................................................. Räsänen Esa.................................. 2012 – 2015

Materials and new Production Technologies CHANDA........................Nuclear Fission and Radiation Protection.................. Department of Physics.............................................................. Penttilä Heikki............................... 2013 – 2017

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