UEF Environmental and Biological Sciences

The Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences aims to promote healthy living in a healthy environment. Our research and education in the fields of environmental and biological sciences focuses on the interactions between humans and nature, with a multidisciplinary approach that is strongly based on natural sciences. The department’s combination of interdisciplinary research fields is unique, and offers a good basis for our study programmes. Environmental health and technology and biology of environmental change are key themes for the future. Our biology teacher training introduces the latest research data to schools’ basic education. Our multidisciplinary research is valued globally, and we are engaged in close cooperation with partners in Finland and abroad. An interdisciplinary research approach is applied to climate change and biodiversity loss – the health of the environment has various impacts on the well-being of humans as well. The Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences has operations in both the Joensuu Campus and Kuopio Campus.