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www.mekong.fi Website for the FFRC's Mekong projects. RESEARCH DATABASE Batabase includes short desciptions of all the research projects carried out at the Turku School of Economics.

Our competence is research, especially in the fields of foresight, environmental issues, innovations, creativity, culture and the knowledge society. We have also raised up new themes like the futures of media
and communications, food consumption and safety field. 

At the moment we are carrying out the following projects: 

International projects:

• BaltFood, European Union, Interreg: 2009-2011
• The Climate Discussion on Transport (CAST) - An Interdisciplinary Environmental Analysis, Academy of Finland: 2009-2011
• COST A22 - European Network for Foresight Methodology
• Eco-Innovation Observatory (EIO), European Union: 2010-2012  
• ESPON Climate, European Union: 2009-2010 
• Foresight of Evolving Security Threats Posed by Emerging Technologies (FESTOS), European Union: 2008-2011
• Future Resource Economy and Policies in Laos till the Year 2020 (FREPLA 2020), Academy of Finland: 2008-2011
• Interconnecting Knowledge for the early identification of issues, events and developments shaping and shaking the future of STI in the ERA (iKnow), European Union: 2008-2011
• Knowledge for Development: Creating Rural Resource Database for Sustainable Livelihoods in Cambodia and Laos (SURVEY), Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland: 2009-2010
• Land use: Synergies and trade-offs between energy and food production? (LUST), Academy of Finland: 2010-2013
• Legitimacy and Effectiveness in Global Environmental Governance (LEGITIMATE), Academy of Finland: 2006-2010
• Millennium Project: Helsinki Node 
• Pathways for Carbon Transitions (PACT), European Union: 2008-2011
• Privacy – Appraising Challenges to Technologies and Ethics (PRACTIS), European Union: 2010-2012
• Privacy Awareness through Branding of Security Organisations (PATS), European Union: 2008-2010
• Synergies in Multi-scale Inter-Linkages of Eco-social systems (SMILE), European Union: 2008-2011
• Why energy projects fail? Design and implementation of Renewable Energy Projects in Laos and Cambodia (DREAM), Academy of Finland: 2009-2012

National and regional projects:

See detailed list on the Finnish web pages

• CID - Changing Identities: 2006-2010
• Culture as a Resource of the Countryside: 2003-2010
• Creative Futures Space, Cities of Helsinki and Hämeenlinna & ESF/Regional Council of Päijät-Häme: 2009-2012
• Creatively Sustainable Communities (CRESCO) 
• Design Foresight, FIMECC: 2010-2011
• Futures Process for the Province of Western Finland, Varsinais-Suomen liitto: 2007-2010
• Futures Club, Loimaan Seudun kehittämiskeskus & collaboration companies: 2005-2010
• Get a Life: ESF/State Provincial Office of Oulu: 2008-2011
• Green Care, 2009-2011
• Indicator Framework for Eco-Efficiency (IFEE), Academy of Finland: 2007-2010
• Innovation and Networks, FIMECC Ltd: 2009-2013
• Intellectual Capital as a Driver of National Economy in Finland (SAIKA), Tekes: 2010-2011 
  
• Open Innovation Banking System (OIBS), Ministry of Education: 2008-2011