Glossary of data structures in environmental protection

The Ministry of the Environment commissioned the Finnish Terminology Centre for a terminology project in December 2023. The aim of the project is to support coherent processing of data related to environmental protection and to facilitate electronic services and communication. The glossary will contain some 60 concepts. The terms and concept descriptions will be given in Finnish and term equivalents in Swedish and English.

Updates and new concepts to the Glossary of Integration

The first edition of the Glossary of Integration was published in 2021. In autumn 2023, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland commissioned the Finnish Terminology Centre to undertake a terminology project with the aim of updating 15 concept descriptions of the glossary and expanding the glossary with new concepts. The concepts will be given Finnish terms and equivalents in Swedish and English. The concept descriptions will be given in all three languages.

Glossary of geographic data in statistics

Statistics Finland commissioned the Finnish Terminology Centre for a terminology project in autumn 2023. The aim of the project is to provide definitions in Finnish for some 30 concepts related to geographic data in statistics. In addition to Finnish, the terms will also be given in English. Terminology work is done to support the project GSGF in Finland – Integration of geospatial and statistical information in Finland, GSFI.

Glossary of continuous learning

The Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland commissioned the Finnish Terminology Centre for a terminology project in 2020. The purpose of the project was to harmonise and provide definitions for concepts related to continuous learning. Expert feedback on the draft glossary was requested from interest groups at the end of the first phase of the project in 2021.

Obituary: In memory of Heidi Suonuuti

Heidi SuonuutiMSc (Technology) Heidi Suonuuti (née Karlsson) passed away on the 13th August 2023 after a long-term illness. She was born in Turku on the 4th April 1932, and was 91 years old at the time of her death.

The contents of The Helsinki Term Bank for the Arts and Sciences updated in TEPA Term Bank

The most recent contents at The Helsinki Term Bank for the Arts and Sciences (HTB) have been updated in TEPA Term Bank.

IATE contents updated in TEPA Term Bank

The most recent contents of EU's terminology database IATE have been updated in Finnish Terminology Centre TSK’s TEPA Term Bank. All term records from IATE’s database that contain Finnish can now be found in TEPA.

Terminology work on traffic and areas

The Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency and Ministry of the Environment commissioned the Finnish Terminology Centre for a terminology project in April 2023. The aim of the project is to provide concept descriptions for some 100 concepts related to traffic and traffic areas. The terms and concept descriptions will be given in Finnish and term equivalents in Swedish and English.

The terminology work will be carried out in three groups and by three terminologist of the Finnish Terminology Centre in close collaboration with subject field experts.