Finland

EventsEdit

Online eventsEdit

• NEW: Webinar: 11 August, 2020 (5:00a.m.-6:00a.m. PDT, 12:00pm-1:00pm GMT): The Future of Energy Storage: From Plug and Play to Second Life to New Materials – presented by the ees AWARD Winners 2020 Join the webinar to gain insights into the latest innovations in the field of energy storage. Get an overview of best practice examples, as well as tips for your business and award success. Register

• 1-4 September 2020: EuroSun2020 is going virtual - The conference will be now be held on a virtual platform, as a response to safety concerns surrounding Covid-19. According to the organization, "We are currently working on new registration fees that reflect the resources and support for creating the virtual conference infrastructure and presenting the conference online. We will provide more details on the registration rates in the coming weeks." The 13th Conference on Solar Energy for Buildings and Industry will offer a platform to discuss the latest developments with leading solar energy experts, policy makers, and industry representatives. More information...

• December 2020: SWC50 – The Century of Solar - In 1970 solar research pioneers met at the first International Solar Energy Society (ISES) Conference in Melbourne Australia. ISES is commemorating this Conference with a special 50th Anniversary Conference and Display, called the Solar World Congress at 50 (SWC50). The face-to-face conference, originally scheduled for 2-4 December 2020, will be replaced by a series of eight virtual conferences over the course of the month in December 2020. It will include the same panel sessions that were planned for the in-person planned event. More information...

See also: Global Calendar of Events and past events in Finland

NewsEdit

• April 2015: Finnish social enterprise GoSol.org has launched a crowdfunding campaign called #FreeTheSun (http://www.gosol.org/FreeTheSun). They are crowdfunding to freely publish the designs of their multifunctional, scalable solar concentrators, as well as to mount projects around the world with their partners.
• January 2014: Finnish food visionary Antto Melasniemi, and Catalan designer Martí Guixé have been successfully operating the traveling Solar Kitchen Restaurant since 2011. The Solar Kitchen Restaurant has followed the sun through Europe, visiting a range of cities where it presented this extraordinary culinary concept.

• April, 2011: Sheela Kiiskilä, from SciFun, introduced Solar cooking to Tampere IB highschool students along with visiting students from France and showed them a few examples of solar cookers. The students are divided into groups and are tasked with designing, making and testing solar cookers. There will be an exhibition of solar cookers on April 29th, 2011 at the school premises. Along with high school students, preschool students from IEEC, Tampere also got introduced to solar cookers and are creating their own solar cookers to display on 29th.

HistoryEdit

Main article: History of solar cooking

Archived articles

Climate and cultureEdit

See also

• Wikipedia article on the climate of Finland
• Finland Energy Situation - Energypedia
• Solar cooker dissemination and cultural variables

ResourcesEdit

Possible fundersEdit

• Find a Kiva microfinance partner in Finland.
• Raising funds through grants and donations

ReportsEdit

Articles in the mediaEdit

Web pagesEdit

Audio and videoEdit

• December 2014:

• August 2013:

ContactsEdit

The entities listed below are either based in Finland, or have established solar cooking projects there:

SCI AssociatesEdit

Main article: Solar Cookers International Association

NGOsEdit

Manufacturers and vendorsEdit

IndividualsEdit

Government agenciesEdit

Educational institutionsEdit

See alsoEdit

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