University of Turku Pentti Malaska Futures Award

2 February 2023

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.  

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