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Program:
May 21st 2012	09.00–            Registration, Aurora II
	12.00–13.00   Lunch, restautant Aura
	13.30–14.00   Welcoming sessions, AU 100                        Chair Petri Kahila, Senior Research Fellow, Nordregio                        Welcome - Päivi Kujala, Director, Finnish rural network                        Perttu Vartiainen, Rector, University of Eastern Finland                        Markku Tykkyläinen, Professor of rural research,                        University of Eastern Finland
	14.00–14.45   Key note I, AU100:                        Professor Olli Rosenqvist: Rural at the Edge of Modernity
	14.45–15.15   Coffee break, Aurora II
	15.15–17.15   Working groups: Schedule (pdf, updated 20th of May)
	17.30–18.30   Where are we? Walking tours in Joensuu city centre
	19.00–            Getting together dinner, restaurant Teatteriravintola                        hosted by City of Joensuu
May 22nd 2012	08.30–10.00   Working groups
	10.00–10.30   Coffee break, Aurora II
	10.30–12.00   Working groups
	12.00–13.00   Lunch, restaurant Aura
	Keynotes                        Chair: Dr. Maarit Sireni,                        Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland
	13.15–14.00   Key note II, AU100:                        Professor Gunnel Forsberg:                        Transnational migration transforming the countryside
	14.00–14.45   Key note III, AU100:                        Professor Jörgen Primdahl: Rural landscape futures                        – responses and visions in bottom-up strategy making
	15.00–15.30   Coffee break, Aurora II
	15.30–17.30   Working groups
	18.30–            Dinner, restaurant Kiesa                        Dancing, music played by Viisi Ässää
May 23rd 2012	Keynotes                        Chair: Professor Pirjo Siiskonen,                        Ruralia Institute, University of Helsinki
	08.30–09.15   Key note IV, AU100:                         Senior researcher Hilde Björghaug:                         Sustainable food production at the Edge
	09.15–10.00   Key note V, AU100:                         Lecturer Jón Þorvaldur Heiðarsson:                         The endless battle - Transportation in rural island at the Edge
	10.15–12.00   Working groups
	12.00–13.00   Closing session, AU100
	13.00–14.00   Lunch