Kvantum Institute is one of the four strategic focus institutes supporting high-quality research, coordinating multidisciplinary research activities and doctoral training. Kvantum’s science-based expertise meets global challenges in the focus areas Sustainable materials and systems and Changing climate and northern environment.
The university opened a call for new projects in October 2019. Forty-one research project applications were submitted to the call in January 2020. An independent international scientific evaluation panel, appointed by the Rector, evaluated the applications based on the criteria used by the Academy of Finland, as well as relevance to the call. On the basis of the recommendations of the evaluation panel the Rector approved 15 research projects to the Kvantum Institute for a period of 2021– 2024. These projects will be targeted for strategic support in the form of four-year doctoral student and postdoctoral researcher positions.
The projects appointed:
Last updated: 25.9.2020