Projects
Animate has several main research projects based at the University of Oulu, but our scholars are affiliated with and collaborate in a host of other research projects across Finland and internationally.
HOMINGS: More than just human homes
HOMINGS: More than just human homes
Creating new storylines of co-habitation to drive everyday life sustainability transitions. Research Council of Finland, 2024-2028. PI Pauliina Rautio, Co-PI Veera Kinnunen.
MUST: Enabling Multispecies transitions
MUST: Enabling Multispecies transitions
A paradigm shift to unlearn the framework of human mastery over nature. Strategic Research Council (RCF), 2023-2029. Consortium PI Christopher Raymond / Work package PI Pauliina Rautio, Co-PI Maria Helena Saari.
FELLOW FEELINGS
FELLOW FEELINGS
Co-creating biodiverse communities with young people, science, and bioart. The Eudaimonia Institute of Human Sciences, University of Oulu, 2021-2025. PI Pauliina Rautio, Co-PI Marko Mutanen.
CITIRATS: Citizens with Rats
CITIRATS: Citizens with Rats
From citizen science toward non-anthropocentric education with young people and difficult urban companions. Research Council of Finland 2020-2024, PI Pauliina Rautio.
ANIMATE: Significant Others
ANIMATE: Significant Others
The meaning of animals in children’s everyday life. Emil Aaltonen Foundation & Eudaimonia institute, 2017-2021. PI Pauliina Rautio
ELOTILA
ELOTILA
Inclusive co-creation model for shared agency and sustainable future imaginaries in formal education. Research Council of Finland, Proof-of-Concept, 2025-2026. PI Pauliina Rautio, Co-PI Tuomas Aivelo.
MUSES: Multispecies Symphonies
MUSES: Multispecies Symphonies
Advancing critical and creative attentiveness with children in the Phonocene. The Eudaimonia Institute of Human Sciences (U Oulu), 2026-2028. PI Tuure Tammi.
Affiliated projects
Figurations of the child and more than human politics of childhood for the post-anthropocene
Figurations of the child and more than human politics of childhood for the post-anthropocene
PI Riikka Hohti, University of Helsinki (Research Council of Finland, 2023-2027)
ATMOSPHERES
ATMOSPHERES
Children of the Anthropocene, PI Riikka Hohti (Kone Foundation, 2022-2025)
Poke-a-Bug / Tökkää ötökkää
Poke-a-Bug / Tökkää ötökkää
PI Heikki Helanterä, University of Oulu (Kone Foundation, 2025-2026)
Small Matters
Small Matters
PI Karin Murris (Research Council of Finland)
Plasticity
Plasticity
PI Matthew Nielsen (Research Council of Finland)