SOS funds four innovative projects through the 2024 Project Booster Call
In an open call for projects focusing on biodiversity-related marine research, the Centre for Sustainable Ocean Science SOS awarded a total sum of 45 800 euros for four projects to be carried out during 2025.
Through the targeted Project Booster funding, SOS aims to foster collaboration and to support the exploration of innovative ideas and preliminary research questions related to the Centre’s mission. In the decisions given out on December 15, 2024, the evaluation board awarded SOS Project Booster funding to the following four projects:
- Saving the Baltic Sea with law? (10 000 €)
Lead: Laura Ervo, Professor in Procedural Law, Örebro University and ÅAU - Meanings of archipelago forests. A co-productive art-science project with two archipelago secondary schools (10 800 €)
Lead: Otso Kortekangas, Researcher in History, ÅAU and Docent in Nordic Studies, University of Helsinki - Escape the heat: Microclimates and Heatwaves (5 000 €)
Lead: Sarah Rühmkorff, Doctoral Researcher in Environmental and Marine Biology, ÅAU - Modeling advanced primary production scenarios in coastal seas – MIMOSA (20 000 €)
Lead: Conny Sjöqvist, Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental and Marine Biology, SOS, ÅAU
In the call, SOS welcomed applications from both early career and established researchers in all fields. The projects could address any biodiversity-related marine research topic, provided that they boldly explore new avenues, work across at least two disciplines or fields, and include linkages to one or more of the SOS workpackages.
The 2024 SOS Project Booster Call is partially funded with a private donation from Timo Ketonen, co-founder of A’Pelago Experience. This was the first of three planned SOS Project Booster calls. The next ones are scheduled to take place in 2025 and 2026.