- International activity
- International networks
- Nordic cooperation
- International Readers
- Visiting Research Fellows
- ESRS office
Contact
FO-RUM
Snellmaninkatu 12
(PL 16)
00014 University of Helsinki
Chairman
Stefan Sjöblom
+358 (0)9 191 28414
stefan.sjoblom@helsinki.fi
Minna Lehtola
+358 (0)9 191 28483
minna.lehtola@helsinki.fi
Research and Co-operation Centre FO-RUM
FO-RUM Activities
Research and Co-operation Centre FO-RUM at the Swedish School of Social Science focuses on questions regarding new forms of governance, environmental issues and regional and local development.
The aim is to form closer links between FO-RUM’s research and different national and international research environments. FO-RUM’s activities include interdisciplinary research projects and participation in different research and researcher networks and active contacts with different stakeholders.

Presentation
Current at FO-RUM
- Call for papers:
A Special Issue in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration on Projectified Politics
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- Publication:
Finland: The Limits of the Unitary Decentralized Model. In Loughlin, Hendriks & Lindström (12/2010): The Oxford handbook of local and Regional Democracy in Europe
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- Research Community
TRANSRURBAN
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- Workshop
Interdisciplinary workshop on projects 2011
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- SUSTAIN Workshop: Temporary organisations and regional development policies
Helsinki 28-29.1.2011
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- Research Project
LAG: Lagging behind or LEADER in local Democracy?
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- Publication
JEPP special Issue 2009
- Publication
Beyond the rural-urban divide (3/2009)
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- Reasearch Project
LinCon: Linguistic Consequences of the Solutions in the Public Administration
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