The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering has decided to grant Academy Project funding for a consortium project ‘Green Sahara: a cross-disciplinary approach to modelling climate and human distribution’ including e.g. University Lecturer Jouni Räisänen (University of Helsinki), and for a project ‘Atmospheric Autoxidation and Gas-Phase Dimerization of Complex Peroxyradicals’ by Adjunct. prof. Theo Kurten (University of Helsinki). Congratulations!