Current affairs

How does it sound to visit different continents during one single day? At the Cathedral of Learning in the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, you can start your day, for example, in the Japanese Classroom and later visit the Polish Classroom. In total there are 30 different classrooms constructed and decorated as it is culturally typical for the different countries. Next year when Finland celebrates its centennial, the country will hopefully get its own classroom there.

Where is the boundary between good and bad stress? How long should you rest after a hard workout? Firstbeat makes it easy to know the answer to these questions and many more, as it offers innovative solutions that point the way to healthier lifestyle choices and better performance results. Today the company is the number one provider of wellbeing and sports analytics worldwide.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016 to Oliver Hart from Harvard University and Bengt Holmström from Massachusetts Institute of Technology “for their contributions to contract theory”. Holmström is the seventh Finnish Nobel Prize laureate. 

Annina Aalto is the new Cultural Counselor at the Embassy of Finland. She arrived to Washington, D.C. in August. We sat down with Annina and asked her a few questions about her background and expectations for her tenure.

Join the five Nordic Ambassadors and Managing Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations Ambassador András Simonyi for a Twitter Q&A about the Nordic Way!

On behalf of the Finnish Government, Ambassador Kirsti Kauppi bestowed insignias for two respected doctors at the Embassy of Finland on September 29. Dr. V. Chandrasekar and Dr. Walter F. Dabberdt were honored for contributing to Finnish expertise in the United States.

The Consulate General of Finland in Los Angeles supported a unique education project Koulu On Fire at this years' Burning Man festival. The main purpose of the project is to make education accessible to everybody and to help people discover their inner teacher.

My Finternship: Washington, D.C. – Grey City of Business Suits and Brightly Colored Polka Dots

Every tennis player knows the Wilson racket and every baseball player the Louisville Slugger. These brands are iconic American products. But did you know that the brands are owned by a Finnish company Amer Sports?