Jyvaskyla, Finland News

Finnish education and science policy is geared to promote quality, efficiency, equity, and internationalism.

Finnish metallers AMORPHIS will release their first-ever live DVD in the spring of 2010, in time for the band's 20th anniversary.

The shortage of doctors at public health clinics appears to have been eased by the economic recession.

The batteries of electric cars, scooters, and moped could be charged overnight by plugging them into small-scale wind turbines, says financial director Esa Salokorpi of Nordic AC, a Jyvaskyla company that specialises in masts, wind turbines, and generators.

The Finnish decision-makers' message to schoolchildren is: "Sing hymns, build nativity creches, invite representatives of other religions to come and join your festivities, and respect those with differing views!" According to the Tuesday ruling by the European Human Rights Court crucifixes are to be removed from the walls of state school ...

Finnish metal band SOTAJUMALA has issued the following update: "On Monday, January 11, 2010, we'll enter Studio Audio in Jyvaskyla to start recording our third album! In the following four weeks we'll be working long days at both Studio Audio and Basement Alliance with Tuomas Kokko to finish the album.

Based on a series of tests carried out in Germany in September, the Finnish Air Force has been established as the first NATO Partnership for Peace member to meet the standards set by the military alliance.

It is high time to test new methods in language teaching, says professor Minna-Riitta Luukka from the Department of Languages at the University of Jyvaskyla.

A BERWICK duo have left their imprint on the art scene worldwide. Printmaking pair John Grant and Margaret Lundell are celebrating after their work was selected for a hat-trick of prestigious exhibitions, both here and abroad.

Department of Physics, University of Jyvaskyla, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyvaskyla, Finland and Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland E-mail: oleg.a.antipin@jyu.fi , matti.p.s.heikinheimo@jyu.fi and kimmo.tuominen@phys.jyu.fi Abstract.

Double deck InterCity2 train from Jyvaskyla to Helsinki approaching Hameenlinna.

Entrepreneurship Cell IIT Kharagpur in its quest for promoting entrepreneurship across the country is launching its path breaking initiative: 10 days 10 cities Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive.

Already well before the Temppeliaukio Church in Helsinki's Toolo district opens its doors for the day at 10 a.m., there is a tourist bus drawing up outside.

Linking together digital culture programs from the Nordic and Baltic region, the Digital Culture Network facilitates curriculum development, student and faculty exchanges, and innovative teaching ideas and best practices.

How infants and young children develop the ability to control their actions, and how they learn their food preferences were among the topics which were discussed at the Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference 2009; part of the British Psychological Society.

In this study, the effect of desipramine on phospholipid bilayers and parvoviral entry was elucidated.

Allan Saunderson is managing editor of Property Finance Europe and a contributor to GlobeSt.com. HELSINKI-The Finland-based funds and private equity house IceCapital has established its third housing fund, IceCapital Housing Fund II, to invest total capital of some 400 million in rental apartments in Finland, mainly to be built with a state ...

AN inquest recorded an open verdict on a Finnish student found dead from an overdose of Chloroquine malaria tablets in a Moreton bed and breakfast - with a document called "My Creative Suicide" on her computer.

JUBILANT: Finnish driver Mikko Hirvonen and his co-driver Jarmo Lehtinen celebrate after their win in the WRC Rally of Finland in Jyvaeskylae.

'RALLYING AN EXCELLENT PROMOTIONAL TOOL' IN FOR THE LONG HAUL: Citroen driver Sebastien Loeb in action on Thursday's first stage of the 2009 Rally of Finland in Jyvaskyla.