A NEW LEARNING PHASE 2 WE MAKE IT 3 WORK by Hannele Tavi Photo Antti Kurola / Visit Finland an ICE-BREAKING CRAFT

COLD PEOPLE TECHNOLOGY HOT Super hot For Reetta Kivelä vegan Now, this is The complete guide Arctic skills meat is not an oxymoron rocket science to cool saunas 2017 ISSN 2342-01702343-3272 A NEW LEARNING PHASE 2 WE MAKE IT 3 WORK By Hannele Tavi Photo Antti Kurola / Visit Finland AN ICE-BREAKING CRAFT An icy open sea extends ahead. The Helsinki shipyard, nowadays Arctech Underneath, 75 metres of steel is pushing Helsinki Shipyard, has built more icebreakers its way through the cold ice, powered by a than any other shipyard in the world. That is also strong diesel engine. where icebreaker Sampo was built in the 1960s. The latest vessel manufactured at the shipyard Icebreaker Sampo, built in Helsinki in 1961, is is Polaris, the world’s first icebreaker to run on cleaving the northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia. liquefied natural gas (LNG). The goal of the Sampo was on official duty as an icebreaker until 115-metre vessel is to offer more environmentally 1987, assisting commercial vessels in navigating friendly service in the demanding conditions of the wintry sea to their destinations. Today, the the Baltic Sea for the next 50 years. vessel braves the seas offering memorable Finnish exports in the wintertime have relied experiences to 150 tourists at a time. on the tireless work of icebreakers since the The four-hour cruise culminates in the beginning of the 20th century. Since 1971, passengers floating in the newly opened water. icebreakers have made it possible for marine Moving about in orange floatation suits is as traffic to continue along the entire coast awkward as it must be for an astronaut to walk throughout the year. In the future, this expertise in space. The icy sea radiates coldness through will be used even more around the globe, as the the suit, but the passengers are overjoyed at the world turns to the Arctic waters! opportunity to play among blocks of ice in the youtube.com/ArctechViestinta water. 4 5 EDITORIAL In 2017 Finland will celebrate its centenary – a About the Magazine fact that is highlighted in this magazine. But we This is FINLAND Magazine is available are also looking into the future. in English, Chinese, French, German, Russian and Spanish. To read the In the beginning of the magazine, we tell the magazine online or order free paper story of researcher Henna Tyynismaa, who is a copies, please visit toolbox.finland.fi. true superstar in the field of genetics. Brilliant For paper copies you can also contact HEAD FOR the nearest Finnish embassy. researchers, a thorough health-related data restored to biobanks, and good cooperation THE STARS between public and private sector are attracting large medical corporations to our country. 2017 Jari Gustafsson Finland is joining the club of space nations Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment as the first satellite Aalto-1 is waiting its launch. In this magazine you’ll find an inspiring article EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Mika Hammarén WHY FINLAND EDITORIAL BOARD Katja Anttila, Eeva of young entrepreneurs who believe that their 6 Landowski, Johanna Keskitalo, Peter business of combining Arctic know-how and Marten, Petra Theman, Sari Tuori, Sara Gene Genie space data is their main competition asset. The Vihavainen EDITORIAL STAFF Otavamedia Henna Tyynismaa’s research is making OMA Oy PRODUCER Hannele Tavi same confidence in Finnish skills can be found LAYOUT DESIGN Linda Macken ENGLISH important new breakthroughs for in the offer to start an Arctic space accelerator personalised medicine. EDITOR Nouveau Language COVER 25 PHOTOGRAPH by Arto Wiikari PRINTED in Finland made by the European Space Agency 10 A Great Vision Requires Big Data BY PunaMusta Oy PUBLISHERS: MINISTRY ESA. The space accelerator will be a community FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS formin.finland.fi Finland has an extensive network of MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS AND of companies and researchers who will benefit biobanks and research centres. EMPLOYMENT www.tem.fi from Arctic know-how and satellite expertise. SITRA www.sitra.fi TEKES www.tekes.fi INVEST IN FINLAND www.investinfinland.fi The magazine wraps up where all FINNFACTS www.finnfacts.fi knowledge starts: in school. We’ll go back to 12 MEET&GREET ISSN 2342-01702343-3272 school together with 96-year-old Taito Vesala Sweat, Tech, and Energy and his descendants. The four generations Pick an event and meet with a Finn. will tell the story of a school system that is constantly reaching for new galaxies of Stories illuminated learning. The Finnish school system has made 14 SOLUTIONS FOR A HEALTHIER PLANET This magazine is printed on Finnish the right reforms at the right time. The new LumiSilk – a woodfree, multicoated silk Better Oats and Living paper. It is made of virgin wood fibre * core curriculum is a step in the right direction from Finnish woods and produced in but in the future we have to keep evolving as Reetta Kivelä set her sights on developing 6 StoraEnso’s Oulu mill in northern Finland. the surrounding world is changing. Another a vegan meat alternative. LumiSilk has PEFC certificate and fulfils the Nordic Swan criteria. step ahead is the Reboot Finland project, which 18 Cold is the new hot 17 will take Finnish digital knowledge to a new Learn from a Finn how to tackle ice and level making Finland the world’s largest open snow. innovation platform. 20 Up, up and away There is stardust in this business. PEFC/02-31-151 4041-0619 Painotuote * The Helsinki study chair was designed in 2014 by Wilhelmiina Kosonen as a study project. “My inspiration for the 30 CULTURE wooden chair was drawn from playful characters. The aim was to create visually soft lines and a strong form,” Kosonen 22 KEEP IT SHORT says. The designer is especially known for her series of wall-mounted acoustic panels. The Business of Illustration The bits and bytes of fresh Finnish technological innovations. Finnish designers are out there, watch out! SHE MAKES IT WORK 32 KNOWLEDGE DRIVEN PICTURE THIS 24 THE SOCIAL CONTEXT Four Generations of Education The twisted world map on pages 12–13 was illustrated by Hot or Not? 37 Ilona Partanen (b. 1986), who creates her colourful illustrations The family of Taito Vesala has seen how Is it possible to be too early? with gouache, ink, and computer. Strong colour intensity, Finnish education is evolving. patterns, and powerful contrasts are the cornerstones for this 37 3 x 100 ideas to develop education Helsinki-based illustrator and graphic designer. In her works Pick the best ones. organic shapes, mischievous characters, scarves, dreams, and 25 IN TOUCH rhythmic lines weave into twisted humour and grinning double A Quirky Love of Saunas FINNISH BY NATURE meanings. Partanen is a graduate of Lahti Institute of Design 38 The Finnish sauna is getting a makeover as and she is finishing her MA in Visual Communication Design at Stop Right There new venues offer creative options to the Aalto University School of Arts. traditional steam bath. Take a day or two and stop over in Finland. ilonaillustrations.com 6 WHY FINLAND 7 By Silja Kudel Photo Aleksi Poutanen GENE GENIE One of Finland’s brightest young talents unlocking the mysteries of the human genome is Henna Tyynismaa, whose frontier research is making important new breakthroughs for personalised medicine. omething potentially eventually – develop precision treatments for revolutionary is brewing individual patients. in the Petri dishes on the “When we started this research four years S fifth floor of Helsinki’s ago, it was uncharted territory in Finland. Biomedicum research centre. Since then, we have found several mutations Here Henna Tyynismaa and that are causing these axonal disorders. Some her team are studying the genetic causes of a are triggered by as many as 70 different genes. group of diseases characterised by progressive We have even found new, previously unknown stiffness and spasticity of the lower limbs. genes,” Tyynismaa says. The Petri dishes contain patients’ motor neurons that have been differentiated from GETTING PERSONAL skin cells that were first reprogrammed into Tyynismaa’s work is part of a paradigm shift stem cells. that is going on in the clinical world today. “Motor neurons are much easier to study “Thanks to next-generation gene in a dish than in a patient’s body!” quips technology and the shrinking cost of reading Tyynismaa, a rising star in the research of DNA, the next five years will bring major genetics and molecular neurology. developments to our understanding of Rapid advances are being made in this the mechanisms that cause diseases,” the emerging field, including innovations in testing researcher states. methods that enable scientists to pinpoint In the not-so-distant future, a routine visit the genetic causes of medical disorders and – to the physician could be radically different 8 WHY FINLAND 9 from the one-size-fits-all approach of While genomic diagnostic methods existing drug. These cases are rare, but it’s “I fell in love with genetics back today. are advancing rapidly, a vast amount of a promising start,” she says. when I was studying for a high school “Tomorrow, when a patient comes to work still needs to be done before DNA biology exam. From the day I realised a clinic with certain symptoms, instead sequencing can be applied routinely DNA TREASURE TROVE that there are people who research for THIS IS HOW WE DO IT THIS IS HOW of performing the traditional run of to deliver targeted cures for individual Tyynismaa believes Finland has the a living, I knew it was the life for me,” expensive tests, we will simply use genome patients. potential to become a global leader in she says.

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