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SOS beviljar Project Booster -finansiering till fem nya projekt<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

SOS beviljar finansiering till fem nya projekt inom ramen f\u00f6r utlysningen Project Booster 2025. I denna \u00f6ppna utlysning f\u00f6r projekt med fokus p\u00e5 marin forskning kopplad till biologisk m\u00e5ngfald har Centret f\u00f6r h\u00e5llbar havsvetenskap (SOS) beviljat ett totalt belopp p\u00e5 50 700 euro till fem projekt som ska genomf\u00f6ras under 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genom den riktade Project Booster-finansieringen<\/a> syftar SOS till att fr\u00e4mja samarbete och st\u00f6dja utforskningen av innovativa id\u00e9er och prelimin\u00e4ra forskningsfr\u00e5gor som \u00e4r relaterade till centrets uppdrag. Den 15 december 2025 beviljade SOS Project Booster-finansiering till f\u00f6ljande fem projekt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With Baltic Herring \u2013 Towards multispecies sensing, sharing and listening<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Beviljat belopp:<\/em> 15 000 \u20ac<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Projektledare: <\/em>Kati Roover (tv\u00e4rvetenskaplig konstn\u00e4r)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Projektbeskrivning<\/em><\/strong><\/summary>\n

In this project we will think with the herring as a key species in the Baltic Sea ecosystem. Through this project the Baltic herring will be like a portal into the many layered and diverse ways of sharing, interacting and understanding the Baltic Sea environment and it\u2019s multispecies entanglements. In these drastically changing ecosystems, it is important to explore new ways of speaking and thinking, which are sometimes also very old. This involves recognizing the complex selfhood of ourselves and the lives of all other beings around us, and developing a sense of being in our own bodies while also being attuned to other beings. Through dialogue, collaboration and sharing, art and science based research we can expand into embodied experience of the environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Examples of the collaboration and outcomes: Collaboration with Anna T\u00f6rnroos-Remes (\u00c5bo Akademi) and Katja M\u00e4kinen (University of Turku), use of FINMARI equipment, measuring and collecting sound and other samples. Composing a sound piece based on the collected sound material from the Baltic Sea. Bridging different institutions, sharing and collaboration with different fields of research: marine biology, cultural studies, folklore, sociology, artistic research. Shared multisensory experience in a shared space, installation with different ways of shared information and embodied knowledges, samplemaps, letters, sounds, video, images.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Valaankasvattaja<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Beviljat belopp:<\/em> 12 000 \u20ac<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Projektledare: <\/em>Riikka Puntila-Dodd (\u00c5bo Akademi)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Projektbeskrivning<\/em><\/strong><\/summary>\n

Valaankasvattaja <\/em>(Eng. Whale farmer<\/em>) is a Science&Art research project conducted in collaboration with SOS, the Finnish Environment Institute, and the Science&Art collective Fern Orchestra. In the project MIMOSA<\/em>, we improved the Archipelago Sea biogeochemical model by incorporating temperature adaptation for phytoplankton. Within the project, we also introduced the concept of Whale Farmer (Valaankasvattaja), which refers to a person who, despite their environmental concerns, is an active protector of the marine environment. We organized an event in October 2025 where we trained the first 20 Whale Farmers to tackle the environmental problems in the Archipelago Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next project phase will enable the expansion of modelling to nutrient adaptation and compensatory mechanisms as well as bring the project results to the people of Turku in June 2026, significantly broadening our scope. Art will not only make the results of scientific research accessible to a wider audience but also activate the audience to work towards a better future for biodiversity in the Archipelago Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improvement of modelling will introduce the inclusion of adaptation to nutrient levels and temperature to improve forecasting of the futures under contrasting nutrient and temperature regimes. We will also model the compensatory mechanisms related to the decrease in nutrients. This will allow us to visualize the futures and encourage the Whale Farmers to take action in steering the futures.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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(Re)generating Marine Landscapes \u2013 Transdisciplinary Research on the Porosity of the Leaky Landscapes in the Soil-Sea Continuum<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Beviljat belopp:<\/em> 10 000 \u20ac<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Projektledare: <\/em>Teemu Lehmusruusu (Aalto-universitetet)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Projektbeskrivning<\/em><\/strong><\/summary>\n

In art history, the marine landscape is envisioned as a symbol of, e.g., vastness, spirituality, the sublime, and the journey of human life. It is something for the human gaze and imagination \u2014 an anthropocentric promise of excitement and struggle, too. The calm and the chaos. We, the humans, tend to categorise the elements of a landscape as compositional surfaces: A field, a forest, a river, a coast, the sea, and so forth. Through natural sciences, it is, then again, evident that this classification is not that simple, or, at least, it is wrong to think of them as separate entities. For example, 98 % of the streamwater flows from\/through the land, filtered and affected by soil substances carried with it, while only 2 % comes from precipitation. In the Baltic Sea, 30\u201340 % of the water comes from these streams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thinking about art, symbolism, and human perception, this ‘leakiness of the landscapes’ raises intriguing implications. It becomes relatively fast impossible to keep these entities intellectually separate, but still the human perception resists, wanting clean categories and objects of aesthetic sensibility. We want to rely on what we, most of all, see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want to research this propensity through a transdisciplinary approach and to create a place-based, site-specific demonstration of extended perception: data-based sculpture(s) that manifest a multimodal way of knowing and contribute to the arts, sciences, and social research on human-marine relationalities in transition.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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SOS3D<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Beviljat belopp:<\/em> 8 000 \u20ac<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Projektledare: <\/em>Viljam Engstr\u00f6m (\u00c5bo Akademi)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Projektbeskrivning<\/em><\/strong><\/summary>\n

The project SOS3D <\/em>seeks to enable the continued development of a recently created initial 3D model for displaying interconnections between actors and legislative acts at various levels of governance, in respect of the protection of the maritime environment of the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project has two main purposes: 1) Further develop the recently launched model 1.0. 2) Identify future development needs and potential pathways. The project enhances a holistic marine governance and regulation, with future potential to reveal gaps and overlaps in regulatory approaches and governance tasks. It promotes a better understanding of the governance and legal framework, increases governance-literacy as complex data is being presented in an easily digestible form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project will create: An enhanced data set on actors and governance \/ legislative instruments in the Baltic Sea region, including a set of identified and verifiable interconnections; Enhanced open source code and web-based UI; Enhanced 3D model; A research funding application.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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MARINE FOLK proto \u2013 Exploring the potential of the Folk Computer physical computing environment as a communal co-creation tool in science and management of marine biodiversity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Beviljat belopp:<\/em> 5 700 \u20ac<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Projektledare: <\/em>Hermanni Backer Johnsen (\u00c5bo Akademi)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Projektbeskrivning<\/em><\/strong><\/summary>\n

The Marine Folk proto<\/em> project will build and test a mobile instance of the open source Folk Computer (Rizwan & Cuervo 2025), a physical collaborative computing environment, to explore its potential in collaborative learning in trans-disciplinary science and management of marine biodiversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Folk Computer is a cooperation area, or space, enriched with computing capacity via a system consisting of a computer, projector, camera and physical printed visual tags. When visible to the camera the tags trigger simple computer programs run by the computer and displayed by the projector. The effects of tags may be combined, to create new combinations, and the underlying programs modified freely – creating a dynamic and malleable computing environment. Software, and hardware instructions, are available online.
The benefit of this approach over normal screen-based computing is that it enables face-to-face interaction and the experience of working together in a physical sense. The relative simplicity of the elements (represented by tags) allow a better overview of what is happening under the hood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will test the Folk Computer by developing a marine biodiversity relevant case\/prototype application. One starting point for the test application will be the work on thematic influence diagrams for marine management, done in parallel during 2026 under the Strategic Research Council of Finland project Waterways<\/em>. We will gather feedback by organizing a live workshop in \u00c5bo\/Turku Autumn 2026.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I utlysningen v\u00e4lkomnade SOS ans\u00f6kningar fr\u00e5n b\u00e5de forskare i b\u00f6rjan av karri\u00e4ren och etablerade forskare inom alla omr\u00e5den. Projekten kunde behandla vilket \u00e4mne som helst inom marin forskning relaterat till biologisk m\u00e5ngfald, f\u00f6rutsatt att de dj\u00e4rvt utforskade nya v\u00e4gar, sp\u00e4nde \u00f6ver minst tv\u00e5 discipliner eller omr\u00e5den och inkluderade kopplingar till ett eller flera av SOS:s arbetspaket. Detta var den andra av tre planerade SOS Project Booster-utlysningar. N\u00e4sta och sista utlysning \u00e4r prelimin\u00e4rt planerad att \u00e4ga rum 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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