Education

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High quality research enables high quality education – UPM supports Aalto University's pulp research and education

UPM has made a donation to Aalto University’s School of Chemical Engineering, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, to support research and education, especially in chemical pulping.

Aalto University is investing in pulp research and contributes to the transition towards a low-carbon economy. The groups for wood chemistry and lignocellulose chemistry do valuable work, including basic research on pulp.

UPM is developing and testing new fibre-based and bio-stream-based growth concepts for pulp mills in collaboration with research institutes. Wood chemistry research provides the basis for future innovations.

Support for top research on the overall climate impact of forests

UPM donated EUR 400 000 to the University of Helsinki, Finland to study the overall climate impact of commercial forests. The research, called Carbon Sinks+, aims to understand how commercial forests affect to climate change in ways other than as carbon sinks and stores. For example, forests also have an impact on the formation of aerosol particles and clouds, rainfall and the reflection of sunlight back into space, all of which affect to climate change.

The study will measure more than a thousand different variables, and the main measurement site will be the Hyytiälä forest station at the University of Helsinki, where measurements have been taken for decades.

UPM wanted to make a significant donation to support top research at the international level in order to gain knowledge to support its own operations.

UPM Plywood Oy supports a new sustainable mechatronics professorship at LUT University

UPM Plywood Oy together with the City of Lahti, PHP Foundation sr, Makron, Halton Marine Oy, Kemppi Oy, Andtriz Oy, Kempower Oyj, LSK Group Oy, Oilon Group Oy and Dieffenbacher Panelboard Oy supports a new sustainable mechatronics professorship at LUT University.

The sustainable mechatronics professorship enables the development of practical solutions for improving the energy efficiency and usability of machines and devices. Mechatronics professionals develop, for example, smart and energy-efficient industrial robots, electric non-road mobile machinery and vehicles, and systems where humans and robots interact. The professorship also makes it possible to educate more professionals with expertise in both technology and sustainable development.

Professorship in chemistry of circular economy at the University of Helsinki

The University of Helsinki has established a new professorship in chemistry, that focuses on circular economy and new innovations. We together with Neste and Borealis Polymers are supporting substantially this professorship. The field of the professor of chemistry of circular economy will encompass chemical recycling and the utilisation of by-product streams. The new position enables the University to strengthen its expertise in the natural sciences and experimental research in the field of circular economy with a long-term and multidisciplinary approach.

Press release of University of Helsinki 9th December 2021

University co-operation

We co-operate with several international universities in the field of engineering technologies. Our aim is to support research related to our businesses and innovative use of our materials as well as to new opportunities to commercialize our technologies.

Our co-operation covers project-based joint projects all the way to the long-term strategic partnerships. We also offer master of thesis opportunities to university students whom we consider to be future employees of UPM.

Technological University of Uruguay (UTEC)

UPM facilitates regional high level technical education in Fray Bentos by funding the Technological University of Uruguay (UTEC). The aim is to advance technical skills and engineering, particularly in mechatronics, renewable energy, transport and logistics.