Year 2008 events

GLOBE – an international science and education program for schools
GLOBE, Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment, is a practical science and educational program for children of school age that was launched in the USA in the 1990s. Currently about 20,000 primary and secondary schools from over 100 countries are involved in the GLOBE program.  The GLOBE organization is made up of teachers, students, researchers in the relevant field and active citizens who are working towards improved environmental awareness and sustainable development all over the world. The program offers teachers new and interesting ways and practical tools for teaching natural sciences and improving environmental awareness. 

Vaisala has been involved in the GLOBE program for a few years. In 2008, Vaisala sponsored the three-day Globe Games event that took place in Oulu. Read more in Vaisala News.

Vaisala sponsored the 2008 Finnish Innovation Journalism award
The Finnish Society for Innovation Journalism annually awards the best innovation journalism story published in the Finnish media. The story must successfully deal with a technological, social or cultural innovation or any other issue regarding the future.   The award is EUR 3,000. Vaisala sponsored the 2008 competition which was won by Tarja Halla, a reporter from the Maaseudun Tulevaisuus newspaper. Her winning story, "Tomorrow's meat being grown in laboratories", deals with the environmental challenges of increasing meat consumption and how these challenges could be solved in the future by producing artificial meat without endangering the environmental balance. Read the winning article: "Tomorrow's meat being grown in laboratories"