Pekka Kuusisto appointed Artistic Director of ACO Collective Finnish violinist, Pekka Kuusisto, has been appointed as Artistic Director of ACO Collective (formerly known as ACO2). The appointment is for three years and Kuusisto takes up the position from the beginning of 2016. When Kuusisto first toured with the ACO in 2001, we fell in love […]
FACC PRESIDENT’S REPORT TO THE AGM Welcome Welcome to the President’s Report to the Finland Australia Chamber of Commerce (FACC) Annual General Meeting 2015! Membership Status and Sponsors The Chamber Membership has decreased slightly since the last AGM in 2014. We are currently counting 41 members, compared to 47 in the previous period. The number […]
The 2015 Annual General Meeting of the Finland Australia Chamber of Commerce, Inc. is being held on Thursday, 22 October 2015. The meeting will be held at TressCox Lawyers, Level 16, MLC Centre, 19 Martin Place, Sydney NSW 2000. The meeting will commence at 5:30pm sharp, and run for approximately 30 minutes. Member drinks will follow. The Notice of […]
Works by one of our Melbourne based members, ONERVA UTRIAINEN, are featured in a ‘mini art fair’ style exhibition at the ANITA TRAVERSO GALLERY, 7 Albert Street, Richmond VIC 3121. The exhibition, AT_SALON2 : SEASON 2 runs until 19 July 2015 and all of our members and friends in Melbourne are encouraged to get along to it. The ANITA TRAVERSO […]
Finland performs well on international rankings and its success reflects the value placed on teaching, the commitment to egalitarian public schools and infrastructure investment. Finland’s remarkable education success is now reasonably well-known, and the reasons behind it sound surprisingly simple. These include: valuing of – and rigorous entry requirements for – the teaching profession; comprehensive […]
Following hard on the heels of substantial orders in Melbourne and Sydney, Finland’s Kone has announced it will supply 18 elevators and escalators to a luxury hotel development in Perth, western Australia. The six-star Crown Towers Perth, set for completion in 2016, will be a 22-floor hotel offering 500 guest rooms. It will include a […]
Researchers from the Finnish initiative Digital Health Revolution have joined forces with Flinders University in South Australia. The goal is to find out how individuals could make use of their personal health data being collected in various registers in order to promote their health and well-being. Together with Flinders University researchers we are developing mobile […]
The Annual General Meeting of the Chamber will be held in Sydney on Thursday, 30 October 2014. In accordance with the Chamber’s governing rules, all existing members of the executive committee will retire from office at the AGM. Elections will then be held to appoint up to 10 members to the executive committee. Those people […]
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has won a significant contract to deliver container handling equipment and related automation technology worth of more than EUR 40 million to Port of Melbourne’s new container terminal, operated by Victoria International Container Terminal Ltd (VICTL). The order includes 12 automated stacking cranes and 11 automated shuttle carriers and they will […]
KONE, a global leader in the lift and escalator industry, has won an order for Altitude, a high-rise apartment development in Parramatta, western Sydney. Standing at 170 metres, Altitude is set to become the tallest residential building in the Parramatta central business district and will offer a 360-degree panoramic view over the city. The building […]
