{"id":8444,"date":"2019-01-22T12:17:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T10:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lsr.fi\/?p=8444"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:22:36","slug":"oskari-vilamo-fund-awarded-the-best-theses-on-the-building-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lsr.fi\/en\/news\/oskari-vilamo-fund-awarded-the-best-theses-on-the-building-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"OSKARI VILAMO FUND AWARDED THE BEST  THESES ON THE BUILDING TRADE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oskari Vilamo Fund, a part of the Foundation of Economic Education, is awarding annually the most distinguished theses on the Building Trade from the previous year. In 2018, the Fund has awarded three PhD and nine MSc theses.<\/p>\n<p>The PhD prizes of this year have been granted to Dr.(Eng) <strong>Sergei Khakalo<\/strong>, Dr.(Arch.) <strong>Tuija Lind<\/strong> and Dr.(Eng.) <strong>Tero Niemi<\/strong> from Aalto University. The grant amount is 3 500 Euro.<\/p>\n<p>The MSc prizes of this year have been granted to Ms. (Arch.) <strong>Iris Andersson<\/strong>, Mr. (Arch.) <strong>Olli Enne<\/strong>, Mr. (Eng.) <strong>Jonas Forsman<\/strong> and Ms. (Eng.) <strong>Jenni Kesulahti<\/strong> from Aalto University, Mr. (Eng.) <strong>Ville M\u00e4ki<\/strong> and Mr. (Eng.) <strong>Pyry Piispanen<\/strong> from Tampere University of Technology, Mr. (Eng.) <strong>Aleksi Rinta-Paavola<\/strong> from Aalto University, Mr. (Arch.) <strong>Anssi Savisaari<\/strong> from Tampere University of Technology and Mr. (Arch.) <strong>Paul Thynell<\/strong> from Aalto Univerisity. The grant amount is 2 000 Euro.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Oskari Vilamo Fund \u2013 Developer of Building Trade<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Oskari Vilamo Fund belongs to the Foundation of Economic Education. It is named after the Councellor Oskari Vilamo, and its purpose is to further the high-grade study on building branch. In the Anniversary of 75 years in 1985, Lemmink\u00e4inen LLC founded a Fund to credit of Councellor Oskari Vilamo, the leading person in the history of the company. The Fund has awarded best theses already from 1993. So far, the Fund has awarded 55 PhD theses, 20 Licentiate theses and 135 MSc theses, including the 2018 awards. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Fund is a special Fund of the Foundation of Economic Education.<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OSKARI VILAMO FUND<br \/>\nSecretary Matti Aalto<br \/>\nTel. 0400 408\u00a0173<br \/>\nmatti.aalto@oskarivilamo.fi<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lsr.fi\/liikesivistysrahasto\/oskari-vilamon-rahasto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.lsr.fi\/liikesivistysrahasto\/oskari-vilamon-rahasto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"OSKARI VILAMO FUND AWARDED THE BEST  THESES ON THE BUILDING TRADE\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lsr.fi\/en\/news\/oskari-vilamo-fund-awarded-the-best-theses-on-the-building-trade\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about OSKARI VILAMO FUND AWARDED THE BEST  THESES ON THE BUILDING TRADE\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>OSKARI VILAMO FUND AWARDED THE BEST THESES ON THE BUILDING TRADE - The Foundation for Economic Education<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lsr.fi\/en\/news\/oskari-vilamo-fund-awarded-the-best-theses-on-the-building-trade\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"OSKARI VILAMO FUND AWARDED THE BEST THESES ON THE BUILDING TRADE - The Foundation for Economic Education\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"... 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