Finnish Academy of Science and Letters is participating in a seed funding program to initiate and strengthen bilateral cooperation in science, innovation and higher education in fields of excellence in Finland and France. Call for proposals is now open! Deadline is 20 December 2019.

Finnish Academy of Science and Letters participated in the Science Technology Society Forum Meeting in Kyoto in October. The Academy gave a statment during the event which can now be read online.

Latest book in the series Humaniora is "Water in the Medieval Hispanic Society. Economic, Social and Religious Implications". The book is now for sale at Tiedekirja.

New book on the Folklore Fellows' Communications series has been released: "Hard it is to Stir My Tongue. Raiding the Otherworld for the Elixir of Poetry" by Clive Tolley.

Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Mathematica vol. 44:2 has been published and is now online.

Accademia Nationale dei Lincei has granted the international Antonio Feltrinelli Prize to Academy Professor Kari Alitalo. The prize, 250.000 euros, was awarded in acknowledgment of Alitalo’s pioneering work on cancer research.