Erkki Mervaala Email & Phone Number

Helsinki Area, Finland

Researcher in the projects "Towards Eco-Welfare State: Orchestrating for Systemic Impact (ORSI)" and "Towards deliberative climate and energy foresight (DECENT)".

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Doctoral student, in the Doctoral Programme in Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences (DENVI).

Https://Hyvansaanaikana.Fi

In English: Member of a journalist collective lead by acclaimed Finnish climate journalist Hanna Nikkanen that produced “Hyvän sään aikana”, the award-winning book about climate change and Finland. The book came out in 10/2017. In 2018, a long-form climate journalism web publication of the same name was launched.In Finnish: Hyvän sään aikana on journalistinen verkkojulkaisu, joka nostaa nostaa esiin tulevia muutoksia ja kysyy, mitä on vielä tehtävissä. Julkaisu avaa ilmastopolitiikan taustoja, esittelee ilmastonmuutoksen torjumiseksi työskenteleviä ihmisiä ja käy siellä, missä ilmastonmuutos jo näkyy tavalla tai toisella. Toimin sivustolla toimituspäällikkönä, toimittajana ja verkkotuottajana.Lue lisää: https://hyvansaanaikana.fi/hyvan-saan-aikana-on-nyt/

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Prague, Czech Republic, correspondent for Lännen media. Lännen Media (lit. Western Media) is a national newsroom of Finnish regional media. It combines forces of 11 leading regional newspapers published across the Western and Northern parts of Finland. The overall reach of these newspapers is over 1,2 million print readers daily, not yet counting the rising number of online readers. The total reach of the Lännen Media newspapers is nearly two million.

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

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Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Video journalism including video and audio editing, translations and voice overs. The production also involves choosing and designing content with viral potential and creating strategies for specific clients.

Käsikirjoittaja, Hyvät ja huonot uutiset. Screenwriter for the comedy panel tv show Hyvät ja huonot uutiset.

"Hyvän sään aikana – Mitä Suomi tekee kun ilmasto muuttaa kaiken", a book about climate change and Finland.Member of a journalist collective lead by our visiting professor, acclaimed Finnish climate journalist Hanna Nikkanen. The group is writing a book on climate change due to be published by Into Kustannus this October. In addition to co-writing long-form journalism stories on climate change, I am one of the three sub-editors of the book, maintain our social media coverage and produce the podcast series related to the book. facebook.com/ilmastokirja#ilmastokirja @ilmastokirjaIn November 2017, the book was awarded Kanava-palkinto (Le prix Kanava, the Kanava award). The award recognizes the best nonfiction book in the field of Finnish politics, society, economics, history or culture. Hyvän sään aikana was also nominated for the Finlandia literary award for the best non-fiction book of 2017 (the winner to be declared November 29th).The book also won the popular vote in the nonfiction category of the Finlandia book awards on November 27th 2017.

Tampere, Finland

User experience research case for a journalism gamification project available at: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=online.newsinfocus.workinfocus&hl=en

VISIO – Media-critical dark comedy directed and written by Erkki Mervaala & Jussi Klemetti. Ran 15 shows from its premiere on February 17th to March 31st.

Tampere, Finland

Helsinki Area, Finland

Worked in Demos Helsinki think tank as a research intern in numerous tasks in a variety of research and consulting projects including:Participating in the implementation of client projects:preparing, designing and facilitating workshops and compiling and analysing their results,planning and conducting research interviews and analysing the results.Other tasks:mapping out and compiling client contacts, organising and designing an internal seminar event, and delivering a seminar speechwriting blog posts, photographing and managing social media coverage of the Demos Helsinki events at startup event Slush.translating tasks.

Producer and host of various radio shows including Moreenin mainio mixtape and Kupit kaakkoon and some special programmes.

Tampere

I host, I produce, I update, I inform, I design, I create, I do a lot of things at Radio Moreeni. Find out more at moreeni.uta.fi/Shows: Kupit kaakkoon & Kupit kaakkoon LIVEA one-hour-long feast of great music from the fifties to the naughties. Every other episode has a theme to which the songs relate to, for example "Revolution" was the theme for the show broadcasted on 23.11.2012. First episode was broadcasted on 12.10.2012. Find out more at facebook.com/kupitkaakkoon. In Autumn 2013 I began hosting Kupit kaakkoon also as a live music show, and since October I've had one live performer per month as guest at Radio Moreeni's studio. On air every other Friday.Moreenin Mainio MixtapeA mixtape music programme, 90 minutes of mixed music flowing together seamlessly. On air every Monday morning from 8.00 to 9.30 and repeats on Saturday evening from 18.00 to 19.30. Summertime repeats on Fridays at 16.00.

Tampere

Two radio shows at the moment on Radio Moreeni (98,4 MHz - moreeni.uta.fi)."Kupit kaakkoon" is a music show I host solo. It's a one-hour-long feast of great music from the fifties to the naughties. Every other episode has a theme to which the songs relate to, for example "Revolution" was the theme for the show broadcasted on 23.11.2012. First episode was broadcasted on 12.10.2012. Find out more at kupitkaakkoon.wordpress.com/ (Finnish)"Virtanappi" is a live, topical morning show I produce and host with two other hosts. Find out more at virtanappi.wordpress.com/ (Finnish)

Localising playlist content descriptions for a subscription-based music streaming service.

Nurmes, Finland

Tampere, Finland

Worked as a software developer and user interface designer for a Demola Summer project.

Tampere

The complete Kirjatti game is now available here: http://www.tampere.fi/kirjasto/kirjatti/index.htmlThe project description: "Tampere city library is a Public library with provinsional/regional obligations; It is leading the group of 21 public libraries offering common net library servicesGoal of the project is to build a game-like interface for the PIKI net library (piki.verkkokirjasto.fi); it will be embedded to the PIKI children’s pages. To use partly same elements as was used in the successful project Kirjatin mediamatkaKirjatin mediamatka was made with flash. Kirjatti user interface will also be used on very varying computers à it must be made with some basic programs.The result of this project should be A visually and functionally appealing interface to our library system for children who cannot read yet. There is no need to build up a connection with the PIKI-database itself."

Tampere

I worked as a street fundraiser in Tampere in summer 2012.

Kuopio

I worked as the switchboard operator for the Kuopio City Phone Center for the summer of 2011.

Master'S Degree, Journalism

Graduated 9.6.2017.

Bachelor’S Degree, Journalism, Bachelor'S Thesis 5/5.

Activities and Societies: Vostok ry, Luuppi ry, Tampereen yliopiston savolainen osakuntayhdistys ry, Tampereen ylioppilasteatteri, member.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor'S Thesis 5/5

Activities and Societies: Vostok ry, Luuppi ry, Tampereen yliopiston savolainen osakuntayhdistys ry, Tampereen ylioppilasteatteriBachelor.

Erasmus+ Exchange, Communication And Media Studies

Erasmus+ exchange for the 2016 summer semester.