During 21-22 November 2023 the Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center (ACCC; https://www.acccflagship.fi) and Finnish Atmospheric Science Network (FASN; https://www.helsinki.fi/en/inar/finnish-atmospheric-science-network) Science Conference (https://sites.uef.fi/aerosol/accc) took place in Kuopio, Finland. This event is aimed to increase interaction and collaboration across different research groups working on atmosphere and ecosystem related topics. The organizers are the University of Eastern Finland, … Continue reading ACCC-FASN Science Conference

HiMAC 2023 workshop will be held in Urumqi, China from 29th Nov. to 2nd Dec. 2023 Hanna Lappalainen (PEEX / University of Helsinki) will give a talk on AASCO project. AASCO - Arctic Science collaboration project is funded by Prince Albert Foundation for 2024-2025. AASCO is focused on the Arctic  land - atmosphere -ocean feedback and … Continue reading HiMAC 2023

Photo of YSS participants - credit Arctic Frontiers The Young Scientist School (YSS) URSA MAJOR 2023 took place during 31 October – 3 November 2023 in a hybrid mode in Tromsø (Sommarøy Arctic Hotel Tromsø), Norway. The YSS introduced a young generation of researchers to special topics in urban societal, environmental, and computational sciences. The … Continue reading URSA MAJOR YSS and student’s group work in natural, turbulence, satellite, and social lines

The hybrid kick-off-meeting of the EC Erasmus+ project CLUVEX (CLimate University for Virtual EXchanges; 1 Jul 2023 – 30 Jun 2023; https://www.atm.helsinki.fi/cluvex) took place in Helsinki, Finland during 30-31 October 2023. Almost 30 persons from the CLUVEX Partners/Teams, Expert and Student Advisory Boards attended the event, including 15 attendees onsite/ face-to-face. The main objectives of … Continue reading CLUVEX hybrid kick-off-meeting in Helsinki

The 2nd Science Meeting of the EC Horizon-2020 RI-URBANS project (https://riurbans.eu) took place in a hybrid mode (onsite/online) during 18-19 October 2023 in Delft, The Netherlands. This event attended more than 120 participants including 60 persons onsite. The Science Meeting targeted to demonstrate on how Service Tools (STs) from atmospheric Research Infrastructures (RIs) can be … Continue reading 2nd Science Meeting of Horizon-2020 RI-URBANS Project

Climate University organized the “Art & science collaboration in times of the climate crisis” event on 6.11 at the Helsinki Think Corner. Think Corner / TiedekulmaMonday 6.11.2023 at 13–15Event in Facebook: https://fb.me/e/3375rsu65 This two-hour event is an interdisciplinary inquiry into the possibilities of art & science collaboration in times of the ongoing climate crisis. What … Continue reading Art & science collaboration in times of the climate crisis

The new Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Faculty of Science and Thechnology. The MoU is a bilateral document to encourage the development of the PEEX program in Pan-Eurasia and China regions.

A team of researchers from two Brazilian universities: Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF) and Universidade Federal de Goias (UFG), visited the ACCC on September 21st. The researchers we interested to explore collaboration opportunities regarding reducing emissions from aviation.The reason for their interest is the expected significant growth in air travel in the coming … Continue reading Brazilian research team visited ACCC

The Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center (ACCC) recently visited the European Parliament in Brussels on September 18th and 19th, 2023. This visit was hosted by Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Heidi Hautala. The delegation from ACCC consisted of 20 researchers from the University of Helsinki, the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Tampere University, and the University … Continue reading ACCC visited EU Parliament in Brussels

The 2nd Annual Meeting of the Horizon-2020 CRiceS project took place during 11-15 September 2023 in hybrid (both onsite and online) in Grenoble, France. More than 100 onsite and online participants from different organizations attended the meeting. The participants, attending the annual meeting onsite, met and introduced at an icebreaking party on Monday, 11th September … Continue reading 2nd Annual Meetingof the H2020 CRices project

The International Digital Belt and Road Conference is the annual academic to discuss ideas on improving scientific partnerships and networking towards collaborative and collective efforts for global and regional sustainable development. PEEX / INAR at the University of Helsinki is one of the co-organizers. The DBAR Helsinki-CoE will report the 2023 highlights at The Science … Continue reading DBAR Helsinki-CoE at the 7th DBAR Conference

The Sergej Zilitinkevich Memorial Award Nomination Committee is pleased to announce that the 2023 Award is awarded to two candidates:Professor Christine Susan Betham Grimmond, Dept. Meteorology, School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences (SMPCS), University of Reading, Reading RG6 6ET And:Professor Emeritus, Larry Mahrt, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State, University, Corvallis, Oregon. … Continue reading Sue Grimmond and Larry Mahrt receive the Zilitinkevich Memorial Award 2023

On 30 August 2023, the initial kick-off-meeting of the Erasmus+ CLUVEX (CLimate University for Virtual Exchange; 1 Jul 2023 – 30 Jun 2026; https://www.atm.helsinki.fi/cluvex) project #101111959 took place online. Participants (in total, 21 persons) from 5 Universities (University of Helsinki, UH, Finland; University of Copenhagen, UCPH, Denmark; Yerevan State University, YSU, Armenia; Odessa State Environmental … Continue reading Online Kick-Off-Meeting of the CLUVEX project

Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR) at the University of Helsinki is a member of the European Union Science Diplomacy Alliance (https://www.science-diplomacy.eu/) and signed the Letter of Intent (LoI) in 2022. The EU SciDip Alliance aims to further develop, maintain, and organise joint research projects, policy advice, capacity building and training activities on … Continue reading INAR became a member of the EU SciDip Alliance

When: April 8-12, 2024Where: Cultural Center Sofia, Vuosaari, Helsinki, FI The Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center (ACCC) Flagship program welcomes collaborators across disciplines and sectors to join our 3rd Impact Week event on April 8-12, 2024 in Helsinki. We invite researchers and experts, businesses, civil society organizations, climate policy makers, educational professionals, research infrastructure experts … Continue reading 3rd Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center (ACCC) Impact Week