Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, Academician Markku Kulmala received the award at Chinese Government Friendship Award Ceremony in Beijing in September.

Application process for the Vilho, Yrjö and Kalle Väisälä Fund has been closed 24 September 2018.

Conference "Europe on Test: Narratives of Union and Disunion – the Nordic Perspective" is held in Helsinki 14 November. Registration open until 31 October. Conference is hosted by the Council of Finnish Academies. It belongs to a conference series managed by ALLEA.

Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Mathematica vol. 43:2 has been published and is now online.

New book on the Folklore Fellows' Communications series has been released: "Atlantic Outlooks on Being at Home. Gaelic Place-Lore and the Construction of a Sense of Place in Medieval Iceland" by Matthias Egeler.

EASAC has released a commentary to re-emphasise its original points on the policy report "Multi-functionality and Sustainability in the European Union’s Forests". The EU’s renewable energy ambitions: Bioenergy from forests is not always carbon neutral - and may even increase the EU’s carbon emissions.