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Peter Lund
PROFESSOR
Sustainable energy systems and policies. Activities in India, China, and Latin America.
Projects
Jarkko Niemi
Research Professor
I am a research professor at Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke). I have a PhD in production economics and farm management and a title of Docent in Agricultural Economics at the University of Helsinki. My research mainly focuses on the following topics: economics of animal health and welfare; bio-economic modelling of animal production management, animal disease outbreaks and interventions to reduce different types of animal health disorders; adaptation of agriculture to climate change; food safety management; edible insects; competitiveness of animal-based supply chains. I have worked in several national and international projects such as EU-funded projects PROHEALTH, LEAP4FNNSA and ProIntensAfrica, NEAT Erasmus network, GroupHouseNet Cost action, and FoodAfrica research for development programme.
Projects
Improving Food Security in West and East Africa (FoodAfrica I & II)
Ama Opoku Acquah
Doctoral Researcher
State Petroleum Ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa and Fundamental Rights of Citizens: Lessons from Europe.
Marwa Saleh
PhD Researcher
I am a PhD researcher in Energy Literature with a doctorate project in Petrofiction and the impact of oil extraction on both people and the environment, especially the ethnic minorities and indigenous people in the Global North and Global South.
Nikodemus Solitander
Project Coordinator
EduCase is a global pilot funded by the Finnish Ministry of Education EDUCase, and coordinated by Aalto University. EduCase aims at developing an innovative and educational case based institutional collaboration between Finnish Higher Institutions and Institutions/HEIs in potential partner countries in Africa. The major objectives of the EDUCase project include assisting in the provision of education relevant with sustainable development challenges, strengthening networks between partner countries’ HEIs and local innovation ecosystems, enhancing practical collaboration and deepening research networks and global competence of Finnish HEIs, advancing furthers innovations and the reaching of education development targets of HEIs in partner countries, advancing common innovation ecosystem between Finland and partner countries. Hanken/CCR's part of the project aims to device innovative educational collaborations with HEIs as well as with governmental and nongovernmental institutions that work on innovation in potential partner countries in Africa.