Freshwater Competence Centre
The Freshwater Competence Centre is a consortium formed by the University of Turku, University of Oulu, the Finnish Environment Institute, Aalto University, University of Easter Finland, and Finnish Geospatial Research Institute besides several private companies. The Freshwater Competence Centre gathers the highest competence in hydrological and geospatial research, development, and infrastructure in Finland. Currently, it is funded by the Academy of Finland through three projects: The Hydro-RDI Network, Hydro-RI Platform, and the Green-Digi-Basin. Education, Infrastructure, Research, Development, and Innovation within Freshwater Competence Centre is shared among all partners.
We have currently three supersites in different parts of Finland, ranging from North to South. We conduct research, take regular monitoring measurements and perform equipment and sensor tests in these sites, using our Hydro Research Infrastructure. We are also aiming to build digital twins of these supersites. Read more about our work with digital twins of river basins in this article.
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Currently ongoing projects
News

November 22, 2023
WOLL water4all, Tulanet Infrastructure day, Geoforum Summit: Last week of October was great networking!
Water4All partnerships funded by the European Union include 79 partners from 31 different countries, bringing together problem owners and solution...

November 22, 2023
National Modelling Seminar 2023 gathered together researchers of hydrological and environmental modelling
Finland’s researchers in hydrological and environmental modelling gathered to the cultural centre Sofia in Vuosaari on 20th November, to discuss...

October 30, 2023
AI service for optical camera network “When will ice break?” released.
The new “When will Ice Break?” service uses artificial intelligence to identify the amount and location of snow, water and...
About Freshwater Competence Centre
Partners
Coordinating partners are University of Turku/Department of Geography and Geology, Finnish Environment Institute, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI) in...
Contact
Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any collaboration ideas or questions related to research, development, and innovation in hydrology!...
Events
We have both online and in-person events coming up in 2023! Come back to see more information later, or subscribe...