Sustainable Technologies Studio

1. Sustainable Technologies Studio • lectures in the autumn • practical work in the spring • students will do a ”consultancy” work for a company/organisation in small groups • work load c. 1 months work/student • work is mentored by tutors • results will be reported to the companies • results will be presented in a small seminar in the spring

2. Sustainable Technologies Studio • FinnChurchAid (FCA) • FCA is one of the major international NGO's in Finland. It carries out development, relief and interchurch aid on behalf of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland and its congregations. • Assistance is given irrespective of the recipient's political orientation, religion, ethnic background or nationality.

3. Sustainable Technologies Studio • FinnChurchAid (FCA) • FinnChurchAid does advocacy work on behalf of the world’s poorest people for life’s basic human rights and dignity. All their programs emphasize the individual’s responsibility.

4. Sustainable Technologies Studio • FinnChurchAid (FCA) • Assignment 1: Bangladesh • Assignment 2: Rural water programme assesment in India

5. Sustainable Technologies Studio • FinnChurchAid (FCA) • Assignment 1: Bangladesh • to assess and evaluate the impacts that FCA’s efforts have made in the area – how have the local people benefited the aid, has the MFA got it’s money's worth?

6. Sustainable Technologies Studio • FinnChurchAid (FCA) • Assignment 2: Rural water programme assesment in India • to assess the impacts of the rural water programmes they have been supporting in general, evaluate the partners in cooperation, and to do an assessment of the technical side of the programmes.

7. Sustainable Technologies Studio • Uusimaa Regional Environmental Centre • North European Gas Pipeline (NEGP) project concerns the construction of an offshore natural gas transmission system between Russia and Germany

8. Sustainable Technologies Studio • Uusimaa Regional Environmental Centre • Assignment: Analysis of the opinions and expert statements given in the public hearing as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment procedure of the North European Gas Pipeline (NEGP)

9. Sustainable Technologies Studio • Ramboll-Finnconsult Oy • Project: Integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the sector of Municipal Management and Decentralization in Nicaragua. • The project is financed by the Government of Finland

10. Sustainable Technologies Studio • Ramboll-Finnconsult Oy • The programmes overall development objective is: to improve and enhance the local democratic processes and good government through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)

11. Sustainable Technologies Studio • Ramboll-Finnconsult Oy • possible assignments: • to investigate what are the technical options for arranging the internet connectivity and local area networks • to study earlier experiences with CIDELs in other countries and to find out other options for using ICT for rural development

12. Sustainable Technologies Studio • Ramboll-Finnconsult Oy • how the local population has experienced the CIDELs elsewhere or to evaluate how the gender balance has realised in using ICT (a social impact assessment) • to study the technical options for constructing the direct communication channels

13. Sustainable Technologies Studio • Sunila Oy • Sunila Oy is a sulphate pulp mill situated at the mouth of the River Kymi in Kotka, Finland. They produce clean, fully-bleached and semi-bleached pulp for paper industry.

14. Sustainable Technologies Studio • Sunila Oy • Sunila has undertaken to follow the principles of sustainable development • at the moment, most of the processes at the mill conform to the BAT (Best Available Technology) level

15. Sustainable Technologies Studio • Sunila Oy • Assignment: to investigate the possibilities to utilise/recycle the solid wastes of the mill

16. Sustainable Technologies Studio • Mekong –river research project • several projects going on in the Mekong river area in the Water Resourses Laboratory in the dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

17. Sustainable Technologies Studio • Mekong –river research project • MRC/WUP-FIN project has developed several integrated water management modelling tools that combine data from ecosystem processes, environmental, social, political and economic information with hydrodynamic models. • This provides…

18. Sustainable Technologies Studio • Mekong –river research project • holistic method and viewpoint for the assessment of the impacts of various water management options on natural resources and peoples livelihoods • negotiating flow rules and equitable water utilization among the riparian countries

19. Sustainable Technologies Studio • Mekong –river research project • Assignment: to use the new integrated water management model as a tool to evaluate environmental / social impacts

20. Sustainable Technologies Studio • Cities Beyond Oil –competition • Assignemnt: to participate in an international ideas competition for cities beyond oil proposed by the Swedish Government • The competition is arranged in collaboration with UN-HABITAT, targeted for university students

21. Sustainable Technologies Studio • Cities Beyond Oil –competition • The competition task: deliver ideas for how cities can develop sustainable, energy efficient urban fabric, beyond the era of oil – development proposal for a city. • Urban form, transportation, infrastructure, urban life styles… in different city levels

22. Sustainable Technologies Studio • Cities Beyond Oil –competition • Prizes in several gategories • Winners invited to participate and present their proposals at the UN-HABITAT World Urban Forum IV in China 2008