The Academy of Finland has awarded Hanken 1.5 million euro in profiling funding for the period 2017-2021. The funding will be directed to strengthening cross-disciplinary research.
The University Council has elected Professor Eva Liljeblom as new chair for the remainder of the council’s term (until 31 December 2018). The former chair, Niklas Bruun, is retiring.
Visiting researcher at Hanken Anu Torkkeli has on 23 May 2017 received a scholarship from the Fund for Promoting Finnish International Trade (SUE) for her doctoral thesis in commercial law.
On 23 May, the tradition of rewarding the best student achievements continued as 15 top students received the Rector’s List-prize during a festive ceremony.
iTRACK is a project that focuses on protecting and tracking humanitarians and humanitarian convoys in conflict zones, specifically in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. HUMLOG at Hanken hosted an iTrack-meeting on 10-12 May.
The research-based idea competition Helsinki Challenge hosts a second round of Pitch Nights before the finals. The semi-finalists will present their ideas and solutions on 6-7 June.
Financial Times rankings 2017: Hanken & SSE Executive Education is still the Nordic champion in its field as part of Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) while advancing its position in the global ranking.
On 17 May changes will be made to the way URL-links are constructed on hanken.fi. If you have material that links to the website we recommend that you verify that your links still work after the changes have occurred.
Hanken arranges a media training day especially for researchers on Tuesday 30 May at 10-12 in the Teachers' Lounge on the 5th floor at Hanken in Helsinki.
Scholars at Risk (SAR) is an international network of more than 460 higher education institutions in 35 countries working to protect threatened scholars. Hanken is one of ten Finnish universities to launch a Finnish collaboration SAR-network.
The Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Hanken arranged a project course in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and humanitarian logistics, which also included co-operation with companies and NGO’s.
Hanken has received a donation of 250 000 euro from The Foundation for Economic Education (Liikesivistysrahasto). This is the foundation’s second donation which brings the total amount donated to the campaign HANKEN RETURNS to half a million euro.
Everybody that goes on business trips need to have a travel insurance card. So far the new cards are available only in Helsinki but the new policy number is SP0001299653.
