Transcript Welcome to Viikki campus! 8.2.2011 Karin Hannukainen www.helsinki.fi/yliopisto Nov-15 Viikki Campus history in a nutshell • 1946: development into University Campus and Science Park started •

Welcome
to Viikki campus!
8.2.2011 Karin Hannukainen
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Viikki Campus history in a nutshell
• 1946: development into University Campus and Science Park started
• 1960’: first buildings for the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry
• 1990’: a new building boom started; construction of Viikki Science Park
started
• 2004: Facultiy of Pharmacy and Faculty of Biological and Environmental
Sciences were founded in Viikki. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine moved
to Viikki
• 2004: a Campus Cooperation Committee was founded to promote
collaboration in research, innovation and development of the services
and research infrastructure in Viikki
• 2006: Veterinary Teaching Hospital moved to Viikki
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Viikki campus today
• A multidisciplinary campus
• Important concentration of biosciences
•Over 6,500 students and 2 100 teachers, researchers and other staff
(11/2014).
University of Helsinki –
Faculties at Viikki Campus
•Agriculture and Forestry
•Biological and Environmental Sciences
•Pharmacy
•Veterinary Medicine
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Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry
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The faculty promotes the responsible use of renewable natural
resources in Finland and abroad
The research focuses on profitable and developing agriculture,
safe, healthy food, diverse forests and sector-related business
know-how.
Four departments: Agricultural Sciences, Economics and
Management, Food and Environmental Sciences, and Forest
Sciences
Viikki Study and Research Farm: an actual farm in the middle of
Helsinki
Research stations elsewhere in Finland: The Hyytiälä forest station,
research stations in Värriö and Lake Muddusjärvi
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The faculty's figures in 2013
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Number of staff: 485
About 2,600 undergraduates, of which
190 are international
About 430 postgraduate students, of which
112 are international
Sixinternational master's programmes, 48
doctorates, 267 master's students and 206
bachelor students graduated from the
faculty
Involved in four Centres of Excellence of
the Academy of Finland
Budget in 2013: EUR 44 million
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Faculty of Biological and
Environmental Sciences
• Established 2004
• Forms with its neighbouring units the largest and most
prominent scientific and educational unit for life sciences
in Finland
• Main research fields: genes and environment, molecular
basis of health, ecology, evolutionary biology and
environmental changes
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Faculty of Biological and
Environmental Sciences
• Trains experts for universities, research institutes, public
administration, schools, business and industry
• Coordinates the Helsinki University Centre for
Environment (HENVI)
• Two departments: dept. of Biosciences in Viikki, dept. of
Environmental Sciences in Viikki and in Lahti
• Field stations: Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Lammi
Biological Station, Tvärminne Zoological Station
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Figures 2013
• Staff: about 480
• 1,266 graduate students, 407 postgraduate students
• Degrees in 2013:
• Bachelor of Science (BSc): 111
• Master of Science (MSc): 124
• Licentiate of Philosophy: 1
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD): 45
• Budget M€ 37.6, of which external funding 44.7%
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Faculty of Pharmacy
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Staff (2014) 183
Students ca. 950, of which 127 postgraduate students
3 departments and the Centre for Drug Research (CDR)
Budget 2013: M€ 12, of which external M€ 4
Strong in multidiciplinary research, international and Finnish
collaboration
• Strong commitment in research and societal interaction
• Graduates (2013):
• Bachelor of Science (BSc) 149
• Master of Science (MSc) 56
• Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm. D)/Doctor of Philosophy
(PhD) 16
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Research areas
• Research areas:
• - pre-clinical medicine research and methods
• - drug and medicinal safety
• - pharmaceutical nanotechnology
• - medicinal treatment and drugs for children and the
elderly
• - effectivity and cost-effectiviness of drugs
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Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
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The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine is responsible for the veterinary education in Finland
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The mission of the faculty is to provide high-quality research, veterinary and specialist education , as well
as extension studies.
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The faculty plays the most important role in the field of veterinary medicine both in terms of research and
education in Finland.
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The research areas of the faculty are:
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Animal health and welfare
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Intestinal Microbiota and Host-Microbe Interaction
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Food hygiene and human health
The faculty is an international workplace:
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The international staff represents 10% of the workforce, representing 19 different nationalities
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Researchers’ career steps are supported by the University and the Faculty in every step of the way. The numbert of
international doctoral students, post-doc researchers and senior researchers is increasing.
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The University and its financiers support international orientation of the post-doc researchers
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Faculty’s doctoral programs support the internationalization of their research groups and cooperation with universities all
over the world.
The faculty’s societal interaction is well visible in the operations of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital and
as a variety of expert services.
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Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in
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Staff approx. 370
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Students 445 (2011)
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106 post-graduate students, of which
27 international students (2011)
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15 doctoral degrees
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55 licentiate degrees
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15 specialist’s degrees (2011)
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The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Microbial Food
Safety Research
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Refereed publications approx. 180 (2011)
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Budget 2011: Meur 27,5
of which external funding Meur 10,9
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Further information:
http://www.vetmed.helsinki.fi/english
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Research highlights in Veterinary
Medicine
Research focus areas:
Intestinal Microbiota and Host-Microbe Interaction
Food hygiene and human health
Animal health and welfare
FCoE in Microbial Food Safety Research
2008-2013
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Intestinal Microbiota and Host-Microbe
Interaction
• Microbial Food Spoilage
• Food and Intestinal Pathogens
Psychrotrophic and Spore-Forming Pathogens
Canine genes:
research group at the University of
Helsinki and the Folkhälsan Research
Center
Translational & Clinical Science:
• Zoonosis
• Mastitits
• Canine cognition
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• Reproduction
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University of HelsinkiIndependent Institutes
•Institute of Biotechnology
•Neuroscience Center (NC)
•Viikki Campus Library
•Viikki Laboratory Animal Centre
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Institute of Biotechnology
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Independent research institute of the University of Helsinki
Focus in biotechnology & integrative biology:
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Cell and Molecular Biology
Developmental Biology
Genome Biology
Structural Biology & Biophysics
>40 Science, Nature, Cell papers
Founding member of Biocenter Finland
Participates in Masters and post-graduate (PhD) education
with 15 PhDs and 12 Masters / year
– HEBIOT, MBIOT, Bioinformatics, GPBM, VGSB etc.
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Active in developing research results into applications and
innovations – spin-offs:
– Yestech Oy (Makarow); Biocell Products Oy (Bamford); Glykos
Finland Oy (Kalkkinen ym.); MobiDiag Oy (Saarma, Ylikoski);
Hermo Pharma Oy (Saarma ym)
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International high-level Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)
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All activities evaluated every 4 years with a GO – NO GO decision
Research organized in
groups and core facilities
Director’s laboratory Tomi Mäkelä
Cell and Molecular Biology
Pekka Lappalainen
Ville Hietakangas
Eija Jokitalo
241 researchers
Päivi Ojala
43% international; 30 different nationalities Maria Vartiainen
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 7 EMBO members
 National Core facilities in Biocenter Finland
 DNA Sequencing and Genomics
 Biological imaging & Electron Microscopy
 Proteomics
 Structural Biology
 Finnish NMR Center
 X-ray & crystallization
 ESFRI INSTRUCT
Tero Ahola
Developmental Biology
Irma Thesleff
Jukka Jernvall
Juha Partanen
Ulla Pirvola
Mart Saarma
Osamu Shimmi
Mikko Airavaara
Jaan-Olle Andressoo
Urmas Arumäe
Bogac Kaynak
Marja Mikkola
Isaac Salazar-Ciudad
Genome Biology
Yrjö Helariutta
Petri Auvinen
Mikko Frilander
Ari Löytynoja
Ari-Pekka Mähönen
Alan Schulman
Liisa Holm
Structural Biology and
Biophysics
Mårten Wikström
Arto Annila
Dennis Bamford
Sarah Butcher
Adrian Goldman
Hideo Iwai
Perttu Permi
Markku Varjosalo
Tommi Kajander
Tuula Nyman
Neuroscience Center (NC)
A multidisciplinary, independent research and teaching organization
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Conducting top-level and multidisciplinary research of the
nervous system, such as molecular and cellular
neuroscience, developmental neuroscience, basic research
on diseases of the nervous system, and cognitive and
systems neuroscience
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Organising teaching in neuroscience in the fields represented
at the center in collaboration with faculties and departments
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Actively exploiting research results for practical applications
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Engaging in and promoting cooperation with other research
units, universities and industry in the fields it represents
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Developing and maintaining international relations in the
fields it represents and enhancing the international profile of
Finnish neuroscience
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Neuroscience Center (NC)
In figures in 2011
Staff approx. 160
Researchers 67 %, undergraduate students 21 %,
laboratory technicians 9 %, administration 2 % ja
maintenance 1 %
Funding: 7,1 milj. €
 Basic funding 2,4 milj. €
 Competitive funding 4,7 milj. €
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Finnish Academy 2,1 milj. €
Sigrid Jusélius Foundation 0,7 milj. €
Refereed publications 49
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Helsinki University Library
Viikki Campus Library
Viikki Campus Library
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Viikki Campus Library
• The Helsinki University Library is the largest multidisciplinary
research library in Finland, providing library and information
services on the four campuses of the University. The Viikki
Campus Library is one of the four campus libraries.
• The library is located in the Korona Information Centre.
• The Viikki Campus Library serves all information seekers in
the fields of biological and environmental sciences,
agriculture, forestry, pharmacy and veterinary medicine.
• The library provides high-standard and easy-to-use digital
and printed collections, lending and interlibrary loan services,
guidance and information skills training.
In the library there are workstations, areas for quiet study as
well as group work rooms.
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Viikki
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Viikki Campus Library
in figures year 2011
• 30 employees
• 250 000 local visits
• 180 000 loans
• 19 000 electronic journals
• Thousands of e-books
• 240 000 printed books
• Budget 3 million euros
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The Laboratory Animal Centre of
the University of Helsinki
The Laboratory Animal Centre is a common service institute of the
university’s faculties and independent institutions. Its duties include:
Produces and provides laboratory animals for research and training.
 Provides services on gene modified mice.
 Assists researchers to plan and carry out animal experiments.
 Follows and enforces the development of the national and international legislation
and guidelines of the laboratory animal science and instructs researcher communities
to attend them.
 Looks after that the ethical principles of the laboratory animal science are fulfilled at
the University of Helsinki.
 Provides professional up-dating and post-graduate education in laboratory animal
science.
 Instructs and makes statements and provides research assistance concerning
laboratory animal use.
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The Laboratory Animal Centre of
the University of Helsinki
Laboratory Animal Centre has facilities in Viikki, Meilahti and Ruskeasuo
campuses
 In Viikki, the LAC has rodent facilities in Biocenter 2 and 3, the Large Animal unit and
a part of the GM unit
 Personnel: ~ 65 (administrative staff 7 , immediate superiors 6, animal technicians
and caretakers ~50) – about a fourth of them are working in Viikki campus at the
moment.
Laboratory Animal Centre will concentrate more services to Viikki after the
Rodent Centre has been finalized in 2013. After that, over half of the personnel
will be working in Viikki.
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http://www.helsinki.fi/gmmice/english/index.htm
Laboratory Animal Centre collaborates closely with Finnish Centre for Laboratory
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Viikki Teacher Training School,
Faculty of Behavioural Sciences
University of Helsinki
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Teacher training school and
university
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Given the goal of providing high-level teacher education and nurturing the roles related to it, Viikki
Teacher Training School cooperates intensively with the other university departments. Training
Schools also have the task of developing good-quality teaching and curriculum planning, in
addition to providing innovative training periods for university students and securing their
commitment to the use of modern information technology.
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VISION AND VALUES
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Viikki Teacher Training School provides a safe and open-minded learning environment for people
of all ages, in which everyone has the right to work in their own way. The general goal is to create
and promote a positive, collegial feeling of togetherness, and to foster honesty, respect, fairness,
responsibility and security.
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Mutual Respect
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The school community includes people of various ages, and they all have several and different
tasks and working profiles. Learner diversity is an innovative phenomenon to be protected and
nurtured. We want to make it visible that we respect and listen to each other, and that we
emphasise decent behaviour and cooperation in everyday matters.
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A modern environment for
work and play
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• Elementary School 377
• Secondary School 278
• Upper Secondary School
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• Teachers 102
• University trainees 200240
• Other staff 28
Our new school building was finished in 2003. As
a learning environment, it is spacious and the
rooms are comfortable. It also offers opportunities
for leisure activities. The learning unit is the basic
working environment, comprising three or four
classrooms. There is a convenient restaurant, a
library, an IT centre, and even a gym on the
ground floor.
TRADITIONS FIRST!
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Our institution is one of the oldest and most
traditional Finnish schools, dating back to 1869.
Traditions at best support our efforts, while they
also urge us to move forward without hesitation.
Consequently, we are constantly developing new
learning and working methods and materials. As
active members of the university, we promote
research, experimentation, in-service training and
academic teamwork. International activities,
projects and networking offer new and more
advanced learning opportunities. Sustainable
development and creativityreflect our life-styles.
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City of Helsinki Environment Centre
• promotes consideration of natural environment in
decision making
• as an oversight and expert agency, work to counter
environmental and health hazards
• steers and motivates residents and companies towards
environmentally-responsible conduct
• looks after residential environments and food safety as
well as the wellbeing of pets and domestic animals.
Basic information
Kuva: Pertti Nisonen
• Personnel 165
• Established in 1991
• Budget:
Expenditure 12 million euros,
income 1,5 million euros.
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Viikki Environment House
• Completed in in September 2011
A video about Viikki Environment House
(2 minutes, YouTube)
• Users: City of Helsinki Environment Centre and the University of
Helsinki
• Energy consumption less than a half compared to standard
construction: the office building with the lowest energy
consumption in Finland (2012)
• Solar panels and wind turbines produce electricity (20 % of the
total consumption)
• Solutions used to minimize energy consumption: rock cooling,
air-tight structures, energy glass windows, motion sensors
(lightning), optimal orientation in relation to dominant winds and
the sun
Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira
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Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira
• Investigates and controls the safety and quality of the food chain. The
foundation is laid by scientific evidence obtained through research and risk
assessment.
• Laboratory activities support the food chain in risk identification and prevention
of health hazards.
• Net allocated funding ca. 41,7 million €, with an additional 19,7 million €
collected as customer fees.
• Other expenditure totals ca. EUR 7,6 million (spent on e.g. destruction of
animals, control of plant pests and animal health care).
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Operating philosophy
• Evira ensures the safety and quality of
foodstuffs, and the health of plants and
animals through research and control.
Vision
• Evira is a customer-oriented, highly esteemed and influential
forerunner of research and control.
Values
• Expertise, service-orientation, ethics, innovation
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Food safety organisation
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Finnish Game and Fisheries
Research Institute
Expertise for making sustainable choices
Tietoa kestäviin valintoihin
Finnish Game and Fisheries Research
Institute
• is a research and expert organisation with approximately 270 staff,
dedicated to
• sustaining the vitality of the fish and game stock
• sustainably developing professional fishing, aquaculture, reindeer
herding and the related livelihoods
• developing recreational fishing, hunting and the associated tourism
• preventing damage caused by game animals
• implementing national and international obligations regarding
sustainable hunting and fishing
Tietoa kestäviin valintoihin
Year 2011 in numbers
• Impact
• Expert statements prepared for decision-making
• Scientific publications
67
• Other publications 224
• Funding
• Total funding
EUR 25 million
• Expert input
• person-workyears 270
• staff members with doctor's degree 58 person
• staff members working as docents 25 person
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Gardenia
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Oy Gardenia-Helsinki Ab
• A center of activity and green information
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The City of Helsinki 90 %
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The University of Helsinki 10 %
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The gardens open to the visitors: the tropical garden, the Japanese
stone garden and the outdoor garden
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Meeting rooms and a banqueting hall
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Consultation services, guide services
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Education services
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Environmental education for school children
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Gardenia in numbers
• Employees
• Full time: 9
• Part time: 7
• Freelance guides and educators: ca 30/year
• Trainees: ca 15/year
• Annual revenue
• ca 1 M€
• Visitors ca 25,000/year
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What is Makery?
Three focus areas
What does Makery do?
Our goal is to improve and grow
business in the food sector.
Why?
Food sector has lots of growth
potential – we want to make it work.
How?
We bring new solutions to the industry
by utilizing knowledge and combining
different competencies. We have a
strong knowledge base in food
industry and business development.
© Makery
Facts
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Number of employees 15
The parent company Helsinki Business
and Science Park Oy Ltd (HBSP) was
established already in 1992, operating
at a full-scale from 1996
Viikki Food Centre established in mid90´s to university level r&d services
for the food industry, operated as a
part of HBSP from the beginning
The total annual budget about € 1.9
million
CEO Tapio Koivu
© Makery
Startup companies
and business ideas
We build together with our stakeholders
• Enterprise accelerator
• Entrepreneur community
to University of Helsinki, Viikki campus area.
Our goal is to find especially new business ideas
and growth potential for food industry.
© Makery
MTT Agrifood Research Finland
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MTT Agrifood Research Finland
– highly influential in the food system
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MTT is Finland’s leading research centre improving responsibility and
competitiveness in the food system.
MTT produces and passes on research-based information to develop the
agrifood industry and rural enterprise.
In 2011 work equivalent to approximately 760 full-time employees was
carried out for MTT in 15 locations.
Researchers and academic experts make up approximately half of MTT’s
staff.
MTT carries out research in five research areas:
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Sustainable and competitive food production
The responsible food chain – consumer well-being
Eco-friendly agriculture
The opportunities of the green economy
Intelligence in renewable natural resources
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MTT’s functions at Viikki (1)
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MTT employs approximately 80 staff at Viikki.
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The Viikki campus is home to MTT’s economic research and MTT’s
biotechnology and food research’s Sustainable bioeconomy and Plant
genomics teams
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MTT’s economic research supports policy preparation and decision making by
producing information on the impact and efficiency of various policy guidance
measures nationally and across the EU.
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The research themes are economic and social issues related to agricultural and
rural businesses, food markets, agriculture and rural policy and the sustainable use
of natural resources.
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In addition, the unit is responsible for the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN)
for about a thousand agricultural businesses.
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Research into the food chain and food markets facilitates access to the market for
companies. At the same time, there is also a desire to make domestic markets
more transparent and more efficient as part of international food markets.
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MTT’s functions at Viikki (2)
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Sustainable bioeconomy studies the sustainability of food chains and
bioeconomy systems and the environmental connections associated with
well-being in the food system.
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Plant genomics studies the characteristics of crops by exploring the
mechanisms of genome dynamics and developing genomics tools with the
aim of sustainable and eco-friendly production.
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The research themes are sustainable production and consumption,
particularly issues linked to the environmental impacts of food production,
and, in genome research, retrotransposons, gene mapping and identifying
genes that affect cultivation and quality characteristics.
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University Pharmacy
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Established on 24 September,1755
Owned by the University of Helsinki
Pharmacies in Finland, Estonia and Russia
Over 850,000 frequent customers
Pioneer and innovator in the pharmacy field
Trains up to 100 pharmacy students annually
Expert services available every hour of every day
throughout the year
Largest employer of pharmaceutical personnel in
Finland (employs 940 people)
Our mission
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We help our customers succeed in their medical
treatment: 1. correct and safe use of drugs and
2. cost control.
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We want to increase our customers’ knowledge
of drugs and healthy living.
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We support the funding of a leading European
university - the University of Helsinki (net profit
15.8 MEUR submitted to the owner in 2010)