University of Turku Pentti Malaska Futures Award

The University of Turku opens the call for applications to the Pentti Malaska Futures Award on 1 February 2023.

The future is not just a place we are going to, we create it. The University of Turku opens a call for the Pentti Malaska Futures Award for the fourth time. We are looking for bold, research-based innovations that can help in building a more sustainable global future. 

The competition is open for Nordic futures researchers and research teams with a future-oriented research approach within any academic field.

The Pentti Malaska Futures Award is €30,000. The main criteria for the innovations participating in the competition are: 

• sustainable development
• visionary thinking 
• academia-business collaboration
• boundary-crossing approach to research and society

The application period is 1 February – 28 April 2023.