Strength Through Cooperation

The Fulbright Finland Foundation is genuinely a joint effort. All awards, programs, services, and initiatives are developed, funded, and implemented in collaboration with the Foundation’s extensive partnership and alumni network.

In her column, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Lee Satterfield describes the Foundation as “the primary interface for our two governments’ bilateral work in education, science, and culture” (p. 3). Indeed. The Foundation serves as the platform for a wide range of transatlantic collaborations and dialogues between scientists, educators, research institutions, NGOs, and companies. It is the interface of joint action to create long-term collaboration and impact.

In view of the magnitude of the current global challenges, international collaboration must significantly be increased. In this issue of the magazine,

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Alum Jim Fairweather shares how his Fulbright term turned into a twenty-year institutional collaboration.

ENGAGING ALUMNI IN our current grantees and alumni share their insights in this effort. They discuss their work in international security (p. 19), the role of journalism in upholding truth and democracy (p. 14), climatedriven refugees (p. 12) and refugee education (p. 13), collaboration in health sciences (p. 16), workforce development (p. 10), and diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education (p. 13), just to name a few examples.

With strength through cooperation, we invite our partners — current and new — on both sides of the Atlantic — to work together with us to deepen the existing opportunities and create new and novel solutions to increase the exchange of knowledge and professional talent between Finland and the U.S.

Terhi Mölsä Chief Executive Officer Fulbright Finland Foundation

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Anne Yoncha translated soil data into a graphic score.