About RESET

RESET is a University of Helsinki profiling action seeking solutions to the major challenges of our time. Together with our domestic and international partners, we aim to produce tools for fairer and more equal adaptation to issues such as climate crisis, biodiversity loss, health impacts, and resource scarcity affecting both humans and non-humans.

RESET addresses complex and intertwined issues like the deepening climate crisis, biodiversity loss, health and welfare impacts, and unevenly distributed resources such as food and water. These challenges lead to deep and long-lasting inequalities, requiring holistic action based on research-driven knowledge to guide sustainability transformations.

Led by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, RESET involves seven other faculties: Biological and Environmental Sciences, Agriculture and Forestry, Pharmacy, Medicine, Educational Sciences, Theology, and Social Sciences, spanning three campuses. The independent Helsinki Institute of Life Science (HiLIFE) also participates in this initiative. The project is headed by Tarja Sironen, Professor in Emerging Infectious Diseases from the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.