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Source One of many new things I’ve learned during my stay in Joensuu, Finland in terms of my expertise is bioeconomy. It comes as a new concept to address the problems that the climate change has brought to our civilization; resource scarcity, GHGs accumulation in the atmosphere, global warming, ozone depletion, to name a few. I didn’t experience the heatwave while in Finland. Maybe a bit, I guess. There were several days when the temperature went up to 32 degrees in the afternoon in Joensuu, while Central Europe was struck by an alarmingly hot temperature; Paris reached 42.6 degree at that time, an alarmingly record-breaking temperature. Articles on the heatwave have used words like “unprecedented rise in temperature in scale and intensity” or “record-breaking” or “extreme events” when addressing this matter, and to know why, there are many factors to explore. A famous theory provided by most articles is human-driven climate change. Researchers have conducted studies using cl...

Check my VSCO journal for my stay in Finland: https://vs.co/kHpmq96zYZ When I told my supervisor that I would go to Finland for studying, his response was “That place only has 2 seasons; cold and too cold”. Other people expressed their excitement by saying “you won’t have the night in summer!” or “that place is great for education” which are partially true. But Finland is beyond that. When I walked out of Helsinki Airport once I landed my feet on Europe, I knew for sure that this place is exceptional. First thing first, you don’t get to choose which department/faculty you want to apply in Erasmus programs. Erasmus has designed their program to be specific and with special rules. So, when you’re applying to EMJMD, you’re applying for a program which can be made up of many universities in one consortium. Some program requires you to stay in the coordinator university (the university that proposes the program to the European Commission) in the first year, then continue to ...