The Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) was launched on Friday the 12th of May 2017 at Helsinki University with an event on ’Pathways to… Read More »‘Sustainable wellbeing’ becomes focus of attention at international sustainable development conference in Helsinki
At the moment, countries in the southern African region suffer from acute and insufficient energy supply. Renewable energy technologies are a welcome opportunity, but their… Read More »Future-oriented education and societally relevant skills for sustainable energy in Lesotho
Finland Futures Research Centre and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Solapur University in Solapur, Maharashtra, India, received funding from the Centre for International… Read More »Future Sustainable Energy Challenges pilot course in Solapur University, India
Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC) is coordinating a European Commission funded capacity building project in Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. The project was kick-started in… Read More »New Erasmus+ Capacity Building project (DEEM) in the Mekong
Lahore Pakistan was the venue of ’ICEEES 2016’ the International Conference on Energy of Economic and Environmental Sustainability from the 20th to the 23rd of… Read More »‘ICEEES 2016’ in Lahore Pakistan becomes venue to debate sustainable development pathways and the potential contribution of wellbeing in the low carbon transition
The SDF-team conducted several expert interviews and site visits during a two-month fieldtrip in Cambodia and Laos in April-May 2016. Research director Dr. Luukkanen, regional… Read More »Working in the field for GET-LDC
In early 2016, Tadhg O’ Mahony, completed research visits at Princeton University with the Centre for Health and Wellbeing and Princeton Environment Institutes Climate Futures… Read More »MAXWELL project visit to Princeton University and the DEMAND centre Lancaster
The HEI-ICI SUCCEED project was finalized in December 2015 with a seminar held in Yangon, Myanmar. Activities were coordinated together with FFRC’s local partner university;… Read More »HEI-ICI SUCCEED project was a success
More than fifty stakeholders representing the government (ministries of environment, energy, forestry and agriculture), international organisations and development banks (UNDP, ADB, CIFOR), academia (National Univerity… Read More »Kick-off for a Finland supported Green Economy* research project in Lao PDR and Cambodia
How has climate change been understood as a problem and issue to be governed? What types of processes are required to make climate change amenable… Read More »New Article on Climate Change Policy and Cambodia