OP Uusimaa A Better Tomorrow project
OP Uusimaa supports medical research on children and adolescents and nature restoration projects in Uusimaa.
In the spring of 2023, OP Uusimaa launched two new major long-term cooperation projects. The aim of the projects is to support the themes important to the owner-customers of the bank: ensuring biodiversity; mitigating the impacts of climate change; and supporting the health and wellbeing of young people. Our partners in this undertaking are the Uusimaa Regional Chapter of the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation and the Association of Friends of the University Children's Hospitals.
The new partnership projects have been selected based on a survey of OP Uusimaa owner-customers. The bank supports both projects with an initial investment of 100,000 euros, 200,000 in total. In addition, the bank will pay 25 euros per each owner-customer of OP Uusimaa to one of the projects. The owner-customer gets to choose personally which project to support.
Association of Friends of the University Children's Hospitals' project to intensify medication and equipment research
OP Uusimaa supports the Association of Friends of the University Children’s Hospitals’ project to intensify medication and equipment research at the New Children’s Hospital.
The aim of the project is to enable more efficient, more researched and safer medical care for children and young people. In practice, this has meant contributions to clinical research on children by supporting educational opportunities for doctoral researchers and by enabling more extensive use of the children's biobank and data pool for research purposes.
Nature restoration project in Uusimaa
OP Uusimaa supports the Ketosirkka project of the Uusimaa Regional Chapter of the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation, the aim of which is to prevent biodiversity loss. Traditional landscapes and other valuable endangered landscapes are being restored around OP Uusimaa's operating region. There are more than 50 restoration sites.
The Ketosirkka project manages traditional landscapes that are home to countless rare and endangered plant and animal species, for example. Nature diversity also helps slow down the effects of climate change.