Heippa kehitystutkijat,
tiedoksi tutkimukseen perustuvien innovaatioiden välinen kilpailu, joka kantaa jo
edesmenneen ja kehityskysymyksistäkin syvästi kiinnostuneen tulevaisuudentutkijan Pentti
Malaskan nimeä.
t. Joni
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The University of Turku opens the call for applications to the Pentti Malaska Futures
Award on the national Futures Day on 1 March 2019. We are looking for research-based,
visionary, and boundary-crossing solutions supporting the building of a more sustainable
global future.
The Pentti Malaska Futures Award is €30,000. The application period is 1 March–28 April
2019. The main criteria for the innovations participating in the competition are:
- sustainable development
- visionary thinking
- academia-business collaboration
- boundary-crossing approach
The competition is open to Nordic futures researchers and multidisciplinary research teams
with a future-oriented research approach. The new and innovative solutions we are looking
for should be based on academic research or be in some other way closely linked to the
academic world. To be eligible, the solution has to be already developed, a prototype,
tested or patented, or the solution’s innovation potential has been proven in some other
way. Solutions that are only at the idea stage cannot be entered into the competition.
See full details and contact information at:
https://www.utu.fi/futures-award
The members of the panel deciding the winner are: Toni Ahlqvist (Research Director,
Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku), Sirkka Heinonen (Professor, Finland
Futures Research Centre, University of Turku), Kaisa Leiwo (Research Director, Turku
Chamber of Commerce), Saara-Sofia Sirén (Member of Parliament), Kalervo Väänänen (Rector,
University of Turku) and Thomas Westerholm (Director, Centre for Collaborative Research,
University of Turku).
The Award honours Professor Pentti Malaska’s (1934–2012) lifework in futures research.
Pentti Malaska was a professor of financial mathematics and statistics at Turku School of
Economics and established the Finland Futures Research Centre in 1992. Malaska was a
radical, visionary thinker whose research interests crossed a wide range of academic
disciplines from mathematics and electrical engineering to philosophy, ecology and
strategic management. His work boldly crossed sectoral boundaries between the academic
world, business world and societal influencing.
The Finland Futures Research Centre of the University of Turku founded in 1992 is the
largest Nordic research centre focusing on futures research and foresight. Futures
research is a multidisciplinary field that studies a variety of topics extensively, and
brings together the approaches and research results of the more traditional disciplines.
The cornerstone of the Finland Futures Research Centre’s philosophy is to promote
sustainable, i.e. ecologically balanced, economically efficient, socially equal, and
multicultural future.