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Sente belongs to the Department of Regional Studies and Environmental Policy at the University of Tampere. The Department consists of 9 permanent teaching and research staff (five professors) and around 40 full-time researchers (most of them doctoral students). The Ministry of Education has declared the Department of Regional Studies and Environmental Policy a unit with high quality education for the period 1999-2000 and 2001-2002.

Sente was established in 1998 as a specialised research and teaching unit (doctoral studies) with a mission to increase the understanding of the dynamics of the development processes from the perspective of competitiveness, policy-making and management and to intensify the networks between the Department and the various policy-communities. The unit currently has ten full-time researchers and five part-time doctoral students (including business development directors of cities of Tampere and Pori) and its main objective is to strengthen the theoretical bases and create practical applications for promotion of strategic development in urban regions. Current research addresses the following themes;

Sente has carried out numerous research projects on these themes in co-operation with other universities and with regions, cities and other municipalities. Support and funding for the research group is gained through both academic research funding and through other outside contracts including the Academy of Finland and Technology Development Fund (Tekes). In Sente, interaction between research and practice is a continuous learning process, and there has been an explicit aim to cross the many borders as barriers between basic and applied research on one hand and between research and practice on the other hand.

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Research Unit for Urban and Regional Development Studies
University of Tampere
FIN-33014 University of Tampere
Finland
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