فنلندا Array

Individual member: Nora Repo

National Network

فنلندا

Address

HELSINKI
Helsinki
فنلندا

Telephone

09 23 40 25 25

E-Mail

nora.repo@evl.fi

Organisation Type

Individual Person

Year of Establishment

1000

Fields of Activity

Human rights
Religion

General Information

Individual person

Mission and Objectives

My mission comprises of promotion of interfaith dialogue and peace education, thus, finding ways to communicate and build bridges between different religious communities.

Main Projects / Activities

Professionally I am interested in working with themes that involve Euro-Mediterranean dimension. My main fields of expertise comprise Islam in the Balkans, Islam and women, the Balkans as a cultural area, religion and gender and victimology of Balkan Muslim populations. I plan projects, lecture, teach and publish.

Contact (1) Full Name

Nora Repo

Head of the organisation

Nora Repo

Individual member: Riitta Savikko

National Network

فنلندا

Address

Mikkeli, Finland
00000 Mikkeli
فنلندا

Telephone

+358-40-8343997

E-Mail

deleted@member.fi

Organisation Type

Individual Person

Year of Establishment

1234

Fields of Activity

Environment/Sustainable development

General Information

Mission and Objectives

Main Projects / Activities

Contact (1) Full Name

Riitta Savikko

Head of the organisation

n/a

Individual Member: Senni Jyrkiäinen

National Network

فنلندا

Address

Artturi Kanniston tie 9 a 14
00320 HELSINKI
فنلندا

Telephone

00358503834184

E-Mail

senni.jyrkiainen@gmail.com

Website

https://www.linkedin.com/profile/public-profile-settings?trk=prof-edit-edit-pub…

Organisation Type

Individual Person

Year of Establishment

2015

Fields of Activity

Arts
Democracy and community development
Gender
Human rights
International/Cultural relations
Religion
Research
Youth and education

General Information

Senni Jyrkiäinen holds a Master's Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is a PhD candidate focusing on the urban youth in post-Arab Spring Egypt. Her work covers gender, Islam, social media, urban space and youth. She has conducted fieldwork in Upper and Lower Egypt since 2008. Beside her activities as a researcher, Jyrkiäinen is engaged in the educational field. She works mostly with immigrants and teaches courses on career and education planning in Finland. She has written educational material for immigrants and about immigration. As a conservatoire-trained singer she enjoys performing music and organising cultural events. In her free time, she likes to read world literature or immerse herself in creative activities.

Mission and Objectives

Senni Jyrkiäinen got to know Anna Lindh Foundation while she was working for her PhD in Alexandria, Egypt. She cooperated with the local employees of the ALF Network when she was working as a visiting fellow of the Finnish Institute in the Middle East at the New Library of Alexandria. Her mission is to continue doing projects with Anna Lindh Foundation.

Main Projects / Activities

Senni Jyrkiäinen has previous experience from many fields of activity that are related to the ALF Network. For example, in 2008 Jyrkiäinen worked as an intern for the Italian NGO Movimento per l'Autosviluppo, l'Interscambio e la Solidarieta in Upper Egypt in the field of women's empowerment in rural Upper Egypt. Currently, she concentrates on her PhD that is about the youth in Egypt.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

Senni Jyrkiäinen is interested in contributing in strenghtening cultural relations between Finland and the Middle East. She is able to organise seminars and events, attend in meetings and share her knowledge about intercultural understanding. Moreover, she is very motivated to learn herself from other members of the network.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

The ALF Network promotes values that the applicant strongly supports. The goal of the ALF Network is to bring together people across the Mediterranean to build trust and improve mutual understanding. The applicant wishes to become part of this valuable project.

Contact (1) Full Name

Senni Jyrkiäinen

Job Title

PhD candidate

Head of the organisation

Senni Jyrkiäinen

Individual Member: Tarik Al-Ani

National Network

فنلندا

Address

Finland
00000 NA
فنلندا

Telephone

+358 400 444 425

E-Mail

talani@gmail.com

Organisation Type

Individual Person

Year of Establishment

1234

Fields of Activity

Arts
Heritage
Human rights
International/Cultural relations
Media
Others
Religion
Research

General Information

Mission and Objectives

Main Projects / Activities

Contact (1) Full Name

Tarik Al-Ani

Head of the organisation

n/a

Individual Member: Tiina Hyyppä

National Network

فنلندا

Address

n/a
n/a
فنلندا

Telephone

n/a

E-Mail

tihyyppa@gmail.com

Organisation Type

Individual Person

Year of Establishment

1000

Fields of Activity

Research

General Information

I am a Middle East researcher.

Mission and Objectives

Main Projects / Activities

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

I am available to hold speeches on different topics and promote the networks activities and the network itself.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

I want to participate in different activities that the network organizes.

Contact (1) Full Name

Head of the organisation

Innovation Democracy

National Network

فنلندا

Address

Helsinki
Helsinki
فنلندا

Telephone

+358400749828

E-Mail

emilia@innodemo.com

E-Mail (2)

innodemo@innodemo.com

Website

http://www.innodemo.com

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Year of Establishment

2010

Fields of Activity

Democracy and community development
Youth and education

General Information

Innovation Democracy is committed to changing the world by identifying and building on small but signiﬁcant initiatives started by local innovators and beneﬁting local communities. The organization has sister organizations in the U.S, Afghanistan and Estonia.

Mission and Objectives

Mission 1: Make the ability to contribute – and innovate -everyone’s right and privilege in a society.
Mission 2: Invigorate people’s belief in their own self worth; Boost and support their capacity to make a difference to their local community and beyond.
Mission 3: Find innovative ideas and people interested to work on local initiatives to turn their novel ideas into different types of ventures (for profit businesses, social entrepreneurship, not-for-profit organizations). Act as an experienced mentor, facilitator, and early-stage investor to ingenuity and entrepreneurship. Focus on the benefits and profits that these ventures bring to the community to create opportunities for spreading the wealth.

Main Projects / Activities

Innovative Entrepreneurship Program is helping students gain employment or start their own businesses and learn skills and attitudes needed for active citizenship.

Contact (1) Full Name

Emilia Saarelainen

Institute of languages studies and translation in Tampere University

National Network

فنلندا

Address

FI-33014 University of Tampere
33014 Université de Tampere
فنلندا

Telephone

+358-3-3551 6140

Fax

+358-3-3551 7146

E-Mail

jukka.havu@uta.fi

Mobile Phone

+358-400-665 692

Website

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/

Organisation Type

Public Institution

Fields of Activity

Research
Youth and education

General Information

1- University institute with about 2.200 students and 90 teachers /researchers . 2- About 4,9 millions euros . 3- The Finnish ministry of the Education and for the research projects , other institutional resources . 4- Basic education , research projects , exchange with about 40 European universities , congress , meetings of specialists , seminars . 5- Finnish academy and other national organizations ( the other universities of the country ..) the foreign universities partners .

Mission and Objectives

The mission of the department is to propose a complete academic training in languages, linguistics, literature and cultural studies ,
The institute includes the following languages ( main academic discipline): German, English, Finnish, French, Russian and Swedish. Moreover, there is a training in Estonian, Spanish, Polish and Czech .
The aim of the training is to provide students with deep knowledge of these languages and cultures.
The scientific objective is to promote the research in languages and literatures.

Main Projects / Activities

- Training course .
- Researchers’ training.
- To promote the research on " the language and the society " , this concept includes all fields where language can be considered as an instrument of political , cultural and social authority ( medias language , sociolinguistics , bilinguism , linguistic policy , linguistic questions, adaptation of the immigrants , linguistic of contact , linguistic of corpus etc..)

Contact (1) Full Name

Prof. Mr. Jukka Havu

Head of the organisation

Prof. Mr. Jukka Havu

Institutum Judaicum Aboense

National Network

فنلندا

Address

Institutum Judaicum Aboense, Biskopsgatan 16
20500
00000 Åbo
فنلندا

Telephone

+358 2 215 4565

E-Mail

pekka.lindqvist@abo.fi

Mobile Phone

+358 50 337 2939

Organisation Type

Public Institution

Year of Establishment

1965

Fields of Activity

Research

General Information

Institutum Judaicum Aboense functions as a part of the Faculty of Theology at Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and the department of Exegetics and Judaic studies. The institution has no independent economy (being a part of the state funded faculty) but can independently apply for project funding when needed. IJA is led by a steering board consisting of members of the scholarly staff of the faculty and external members, including a representative of the Turku University and the Jewish community. The chairman is Dr. Pekka Lindqvist who works also a university techer at Åbo Akademi. IJA has, especially through personal contacts, contacts to other Institutum Judaicums in Europe and an official treaty of co-operation with Centro de Estudios Judaicos, Universidad de Chile. IJA has also been an active actor in the Scandinavian Society for Jewish Studies (Sällskapet för judaistisk forskning) and the redaction of the journal was during several years in Åbo. The library of IJA is the largest library in the field of Jewish Studies in Finland.

Mission and Objectives

To promote Judaic studies in Finland by maintaining a library and promoting scholarly activities. 1) upprätthålla ett bibliotek över judaistikens huvudområden (judarnas historia, religion, kultur och samhällsförhållanden); 2) samordna och utveckla forskning och undervisning inom judaistiken vid Åbo Akademi; 3) samarbeta med vetenskapliga institutioner inom landet och utomlands; 4) anordna seminarier och symposier; 5) befrämja publiceringen av vetenskapliga undersökningar samt undervisnings- och informations-material inom judaistiken; samt 6) att handha övriga ärenden som tillhör institutets verksamhetsområde.

Main Projects / Activities

Scholars connected with IJA have personal research projects or act as members of larger bodies and networks. The most important is the international scholars' network on the Reception History of the Bible, which publishes the series "Studies in the Reception History of the Bible (SRB)". IJA organises also public lectures in the fields of Judaic studies and interreligious encounters and confrontation between the three monotheistic faiths.

Contact (1) Full Name

Dr. Pekka Lindqvist

Head of the organisation

Dr. Pekka Lindqvist

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