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Finnish Science Days
Budapest, marraskuun 9.-10. päivänä 2010.

Unkarin Tiedeakatemian päärakennus, Juhlasali
Roosevelt Tér 9,  Budapest, 1051

Opening Ceremony
10:00 - 13:00, November 9, 2010

10:00 Opening addresses

József Pálinkás, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Arja Kallio, Director of the Programme Unit, Academy of Finland

10:40 Climate change - Fate or Challenge?

Chair: Tamás Németh, Secretary General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Chair of the Presidential Committee of Environmental Sciences, HAS

Esko Kuusisto, Finnish Environment Institute
Climate change research in Finland - reflections on energy policy

László Bozó, Hungarian Meteorological Service
Climate change: Consequences and challenges in Central Europe

12:20 Closing speeches

Riina Nevamäki, Secretary of State,
Ministry of Employment and Economy, Finland

Pál Kovács, Deputy Secretary of State
Ministry of National Development, Hungary

Symposium 1

Ground-, Mineral and Thermal Water
Challenges and Opportunities of the 21st Century

14:00 - 17:00 November 9, 2010

14:00 Opening

Harriet Lonka, Director of FinnAgora, Budapest

14:10 Ilmo Kukkonen, Geological Survey of FinlandGeothermal studies in Finland: Implications for crustal geothermics and perspectives for ground heat applications

14:40 Jussi Leveinen, Aalto University Flow models in groundwater studies

15:10 Gabor Gaál and Juha Kaija, Geological Survey of Finland
Geochemical quality of groundwaters in Hungary, results of a European PHARE research program and other EU projects

15:40 Ferenc Székely, Péter Szűcs and László Barkai, University of Miskolc,
Challenges and opportunities in the prospecting and utilisation of Hungarian mineral, cure and thermal water resources

16:10 Annamária Nádor, György Tóth, Teodóra Szőcs, Ágnes Rotár-Szalkai and Gyula  Maros, Geological Institute of Hungary Geological resources: crossborder geothermal energy

16:40 Closing

Symposium 2

Music, Mind, and the Brain
10:00 - 13:00 November 10, 2010

Chair: Valéria Csépe, Deputy Secretary General of HAS
Chair of the Presidential Committe of Public Education, HAS

10:00 Ava Numminen, Arts Council of Helsinki Metropolitan Region, Sibelius Academy, University of Helsinki.
A socio-cultural approach to the psychological and social implications of singing

10:30 Jaakko Erkkilä, University of Jyvaskyla
Music therapy in clinical practice

11:00 Jörg Fachner, University of Jyvaskyla
How the brain responds to music therapy?

11:30 Minna Huotilainen and Tarja Ilkka, University of Helsinki
Musical memory functions in children

12:00 Ferenc Honbolygó, Research Institute for Psychology,
HAS Music as „brain polisher": the effect of musical training on speech perception

12:30 István Winkler, Research Institute for Psychology,
HAS Auditory intelligence at birth

13:00 Closing

Symposium 3

Public Education - the Foundations of Excellence
14:00 - 16:30 November 10, 2010

Chair: Valéria Csépe, Deputy Secretary General of HAS
Chair of the Presidential Committe of Public Education, HAS

14:00 Patrick Scheinin, Dean of the Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki, What's so special about Finnish schools?

14:40 Kirsti Lonka, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki,
New innovations in teacher education

15:20 Benő Csapó, Faculty of Humanities, University of Szeged TBA
Learning from the Finnish experience: research-based development of
education.

16:00 General discussion

16:30 Closing

Further Programs   

Round table - The Earth is ours, what do we do for it? November 5, 2010, Reading Hall, Main Building of HAS, 11:00-12:30

The round table's main objective is to draw attention to climate change and its consequences as well as to define what scientists, artists and environmentalists may do for a better communication of the problems mankind faces.

The Finnish guest of the round table is Risto Isomäki, writer and environmentalist. His book and graphic novel "Sands of Sarasvati" has been translated into Hungarian with the title of „Elsodort világok" and is introduced to the Hungarian public on November 4, 2010.

• Exhibition: The beauty of „outsider art":

Hirvonen Susanna: A Sad Fox (2005) – Acrylic on board

November 9-23, 2010, Main Building of HAS, Main Gallery of the Art Collection of HAS

Opening by:  
Harriet Lonka (FINNAGORA)
Valéria Csépe (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

On: November 9, 2010 at 17:00.

Selected artworks of the Kettuki Art Center (Hämeenlinna, Finland) can be seen for three weeks including the Finnish Science Days. The Kettuki Art Center is acquiring and maintaining its own art collection of works made by mentally disabled artists. The specialty of this exhibition is the parallel display of the Finnish works and their Hungarian „counterparts" maintained by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' own Collection of Psychiatric Art.