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	Kainuu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kainuu (Swedish: Kajanaland) is a region (maakunta / landskap) of Finland.
		It was necessary to populate Kainuu with Finnish farmers because the area was threatened from the east by the Russians.
		The immigrants to Kainuu were mainly from Savo and because of that the Kainuu dialect is very close to the Savo dialect.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kainuu (302 words)

	Kainuu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kainuu region is situated in the geographical centre of mainland Finland and it shares 260 km of common border with Russia.
		The total population of the region is approximately 90 000, Kajaani being the the capital and the biggest city with 36 000 inhabitants.
		Kainuu is one of the snowiest parts of Finland, with a 70-80 cm covering of snow during average winters.
	www.beac.st /default.asp?id=278 (126 words)

	CEMR - Detail of the news
		A number of reasons have led to the self-government experiment in Kainuu: declining and ageing population, declining entrepreneurial activity and employment, and a weakening municipal economy.
		As of that date, the region will be responsible for health care and social services, as well as vocational and upper secondary education and professional adult education.
		Regional administration will also apply expediency consideration to pass decisions on the use of significant national development funds and EU structural funds, allotting these to their designated purposes.
	www.ccre.org /news_detail_en.htm?ID=317 (380 words)

	Metsähallitus - People of Kainuu Satisfied with Metsähallitus as Steward of State Lands
		In summer 2003, people living in the Kainuu region in northern Finland were asked about their views on the significance and use of local state-owned forests.
		Few of the region's inhabitants participated in the natural resource planning process, but more than 70 per cent were aware of planning concerning state-owned lands and more than half found that there is enough information available on the use and management of state-owned lands.
		Metsähallitus administers some 42 per cent of the forests in the Kainuu region, and some 16 per cent of the region's state-owned forests are under protection in official protection areas or set-asides defined in landscape ecological planning.
	www.metsa.fi /news.asp?Section=1375&Item=1790 (621 words)

	HS Home 16.10.2001 - Finnish population expected to concentrate in fewer areas in next 30 years
		Migration is on the rise especially from the remote villages of the northeastern Kainuu region to the nearby town of Kajaani, and from there to outside the region.
		Statistics Finland expects the population of the Kainuu region to decline by nearly 25% between now and the year 2030 if the migration trend of recent years continues.
		At the bottom are two maps of the Kainuu region comparing population densities in the area in 1970 and 1997.
	www2.hs.fi /english/archive/news.asp?id=20011016IE9 (624 words)

	North Finland Alliance
		Kainuu is situated around Lake Oulujärvi in the middle of the Finnish mainland.
		Kainuu's settlement history is among the oldest in Finland.
		Kajaani University Centre is a centre of expertise composed of regional university operations and involving co-operation between five universities.
	www.pohjois-suomi.fi /english/pohjsuomalue_kainuu.html (573 words)

	Summary
		Since the largest landowner in the region was the state, which possessed over 70% of the land area, and the timber companies" activities were directed solely towards the purchase of private land, they were concentrated on really quite a small area.
		Kainuu had traditionally been an important trading area for the merchant houses and sawmills of Oulu, the peasant farmers of that region selling their tar to the Oulu trading houses, which also either ran sawmills or traded in sawn timber.
		This region was not the main object of such transactions on a national scale, however, as the land involved there amounted to only 7.6% of that acquired by such means over the whole country.
	herkules.oulu.fi /isbn9514256247/html/chapter8.html (5318 words)

	Fortified Places > Fortresses > Kajaani
		The region of Kainuu was brought under Swedish rule in the 12th century when Sweden invaded Finland, but it was not until the beginning of the 17th century that the Swedish crown began to consider the region's strategic value in the event of an attack by the Russians.
		Kainuu tar was used to waterproof merchant and naval ships of great imperial powers like Great Britain, France and Spain.
		In addition to its function as a military outpost, the castle was the seat of government for the region and was used as a prison.
	www.fortified-places.com /kajaani.html (632 words)

	Teamware \| News & Events \| Teamware Webzine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kainuu, a region consisting of eight municipalities and two cities in the north-eastern part of Finland and with a population of 86.500, is running a major administrative pilot project.
		It is called the Kainuu Model, where some of the basic municipal functions are being operated on a regional level.
		The objective of the pilot is to strengthen self-government especially when local and regional development is concerned.
	www.teamware.net /Resource.phx/webzine/webzine0403/kainuu-region.htx (335 words)

	Program - general information
		The first meetings were held in the Finnish region of Kainuu and the last one, in spring 2002, was organised by the French department of Jura.
		Young people from the regions affiliated with FONDELF, i.e., Galicia (Spain), Extremadura (Spain), Jura (France), Kainuu (Finland) and Värmland (Sweden) were invited to participate in the European Forest Week in Suwalki Region.Dzukija (Lithuania) and Müritz (Germany) were also invited as friendly ones to the organizers.
		According to the project, the participants and one tutor from each region were staying all at the organisers expense.
	www.wigry.win.pl /efw/prog_og_en.htm (443 words)

	HS Home 3.4.2001 - During winter 23 wolves killed in Kainuu region
		According to information from the game district of Kainuu Province in northeastern Finland, 23 wolves were killed in the area between October and March.
		Next winter we are planning a wolf census in the region along with the RKTL.
		Ten of the dogs had been taken from their yards, while the rest were mainly killed in connection with a hunt.
	www2.hs.fi /english/archive/news.asp?id=20010403IE15 (510 words)

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		She characterised the information technologies as one of the branches of the region Kainuu that mostly are pointing to the future.
		This latter stage saw the creation in Kainuu region of the Kirjokansi Co-operative while a second co-operative was established soon after the conclusion of the project.
		The public employment authorities did not grant start-up financing, the regional Leader project did not provide funding assistance for the early stages and no loans were forthcoming form the banks in the absence of security collateral.
	web.tiscali.it /ecogestioni/workshop3.html (2166 words)

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		Alongside agriculture, tar burning used to be the main source of livelihood in Kainuu Province for hundreds of years and reached its peak during the second half of the 19th Century.
		Kainuu tar was exported all round the world to be used as wood preservative in the building of wooden buildings and ships.
		The aim of the Tar Project is to bring together those individuals and interest groups within Kainuu who are interested in participating in the revival of this rich cultural heritage and in planning the exploitation of tar and the tar burning tradition for the good of the local construction, tourism and handicraft industries.
	www.kainuunmk.fi /terva/tarproject.htm (230 words)

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		87 000 inhabitants reside in the 10 municipalities that are Kainuu.
		The region is primarily a forest economy, but there is expertise in electronic industry and metal industry located in the region, and a lot of educational facilities.
		Mr Jyrki Haataja, the Regional Council of Kainuu, WP 2, Sub-group Forestry.
	www.barents2010.net /files/nlkYlPPT.doc (4874 words)

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		The region of Kainuu is interested in exchanging experiences with other European regionsthat are in the process of reforming their governance systems and, in particular, regional administrations/organisations.
		The objective of the seminar would be to discuss the development trends of regional governance in different parts of Europe and what European regions could learn from one another in terms of organising their administrations.
		Interested partner regions are invited to contact the undersigned (email: jani.taivalantti@eastfinland.org, tel: +32 2 282 83 70) by 25 February 2005.
	www.errin-brussels.org /contents/J00/J20.php?id=1267 (134 words)

	Qvenland - IBWiki
		Cwenland or Quenland is a pre-historic region at the northern Scandinavia where the Finnish people of Cwens lived.
		The region is often identified as the coast shore of Gulf of Bothnia.
		Some schools argues it is identical to the Finnish region of Kainuu and others that it comes from an older name of Gulf of Bothnia.
	ib.frath.net /w/Qvenland (132 words)

	Kainuun ammattiopisto Internet
		The Region of Kainuu is a part of sparsely inhabited North-Finland. Characteristic to Kainuu is vast number of forests (95 % of land area) and a fresh nature.
		In the Region of Kainuu there are 88.000 inhabitants, total land area is 24.000 km
		The regional capital, the City of Kajaani (established in year 1651) has 36.000 inhabitants and the land-area is 1370 km
	www.kao.fi /?deptid=11441 (240 words)

	Report from Workshop 4
		The Kainuu Environment Centre contributed in the project by arranging the accommodation and finishing the workstations in Takkila.
		The Kainuu region in north-eastern Finland was given a high priority when choosing the workshop site due to the well-preserved local tradition of wooden handicrafts, forestry and small-scale industry based on wood.
		Before the so-called Enclosure (a general parcelling out, declared at an ordinary parliamentary session in 1757 and started in Kainuu region in the 1840s) the settlers were relatively free to inhabit the areas owned by the state.
	www.timmerdraget.org /wc/wooden/w4_rep1.htm (3714 words)

	www.environment.fi - Kainuu Regional Environment Centre
		The Kainuu Regional Environment Centre, in collaboration with the inhabitants and administrative authorities of the region, promotes the well-being of the cultural and natural environment through research, administrative regulations and concrete measures and contributes to the general development of the region of Kainuu.
		It is also responsible for implementing national enviromental policy in its region.
		The Centre is supervised by the Ministry of Environment and also partly by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
	www.environment.fi /default.asp?contentid=10766&lan=EN (109 words)

	Finnish Nature League FNL: reports on old-growth clearcutting in Finland. Stora Enso, UPM-Kymmene, Vapo Timber, Kuhmo, ...
		Kainuu region: Clearcut in old-growth forests Eastern Finland / January
		Kainuu region: Pulping the old-growth forests for European paper in Ulvinsalo area / November
		Kainuu region: Destruction of snowy old-growth Taiga Forest near Ulvinsalo strict nature reserve area close to the Russian border / December
	www.luontoliitto.fi /forest/reports (647 words)

	Centre of Expertise Programme - KAINUU CENTRE OF EXPERTISE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Kainuu Centre of Expertise aims to harness knowledge-intensive actors and innovative resources in the region of Kainuu in order to adopt a common strategy in the region.
		The Centre of Expertise Programme for Kainuu, which consists of two different fields of expertise, boosts the image of Kainuu as a region with world-class expertise in high technology and culture.
		Through various development measures Measurepolis-Kajaani strengthens its role as the pillar of high technology in Kainuu, as a nationally important research and business cluster in measuring technology and as a nationally and internationally active player in the sector.
	www.oske.net /in_english/centres_of_expertise/kainuu (172 words)

	Workshop 4
		The workshop in Finland will take place at Takkila Farm in the Kainuu region in north-eastern Finland, 30th June - 13th July 2002.
		Kainuu has been chosen as the target area because of the well-preserved local tradition in log building, handicraft skills and forestry.
		The production of pine wood tar, traditionally used as a surface treatment for wooden buildings and boats, is also alive in the region.
	www.timmerdraget.org /wc/wooden/w_site4.htm (133 words)

	Metsähallitus - Metsähallitus is building common ground on the conservation of forests in northern Finland through ...
		At a joint meeting in Kajaani on December 17, 2004 Metsähallitus explored the views of its regional stakeholders on the issue of conservation of state-owned forests in northern Finland.
		Ecological, social and economic perspectives were put forward by the stakeholders as they expressed their views on how the conservation of state forests in the Kainuu Region, Ostrobothnia and western and eastern Lapland should be developed.
		At the next big stakeholder group meeting in March, the regional stakeholder groups involved in the dialogue process hope to receive information on the different sides’ viewpoints regarding the total land area to be excluded from forestry operations as a result of the process.
	www.metsa.fi /news.asp?Section=1184&Item=2048 (437 words)

	www.measurepolis.fi MEASUREPOLIS - KAJAANI, mittaustekniikan osaamiskeskus
		The aim of the programme is to enable the Kainuu region to attain an internationally acknowledged and significant position in measurement technology research and development.
		The Kainuu Regional Centre of Expertise Programme began in 2003.
		The Kainuun maakunta joint municipality, the Kainuu Employment and Economic Development Centre, the City of Kajaani, the Municipality of Sotkamo, and project actors fund the Measurepolis programme.
	www.measurepolis.fi /projects.htm (862 words)

	Tekes
		The "asthma gene" research of Laitinen's and Kere's group focuses on the population of Finlandâs Kainuu region.
		The history of the population in this region is well known as the information about the families that moved to the area has been recorded from as far back as the16th century.
		A systematic search for the asthma susceptibility gene(s), covering the whole genome, was done using the families in Kainuu that are affected by asthma.
	akseli.tekes.fi /opencms/opencms/OhjelmaPortaali/ohjelmat/LAAKE_2000/en/system/uutinen.html?id=400&nav=News (864 words)

	Seminar organisation. Finland is looking for partners
		the region of Kainuu, situated in East Finland, gained self-government on 1 January 2005.
		For the first time on the Finnish continent, a democratically elected regional council is granted administrative power that has traditionally been the domain of the state administration.
		The region of Kainuu is interested in exchanging experiences with other European regionsthat are in the pro
	db.formez.it /cooperaz.nsf/0d39c90ed021f287c1256adb002cc6ae/4a58c561cb0b856dc1256fa2002de8cf?OpenDocument (192 words)

	Kainuun Etu Oy
		The role of the company is to contribute to regional growth and to assist key sector companies to develop their business operations, competitiveness, growth and cooperative activities; to develop key clusters and realise the preconditions for their operation; to promote the development of the regional commercial structure.
		The key growth sectors of the Kainuu region are: Wood and Stone sector, IT & Electronics and Metal sector, Tourism sector and Food sector.
		Kainuun Etu Oy is promoting business development and regional growth through regional, national and international initiatives.
	www.kainuunetu.fi /company.html (109 words)

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		Nature tourism in Kainuu is being developed on several fronts: nature and wildlife watching and photographing, fishing, and outdoor activities, to name but a few.
		Entrepreneurs of the Kainuu region are showing increasing interest towards hunting tourism, and also international organisers of specialty and tailored trips are interested in finding new places.
		Goals: During the preliminary study, several factors are surveyed: the interest of local hunting clubs to participate in arranging hunting tourism; the attitude and resources of Metsähallitus towards cooperation; the ability of local tourism entrepreneurs to cater for hunting tourists; and the potential interest of specialty trip organisers abroad in the Kainuu region.
	www.kainuunetu.fi /Hunting_tourism_Notice.doc (373 words)

	Oulu Region Map: Kainuu — Pohjois-Pohjanmaa \| Finland Google Satellite Maps
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		Regions are sorted in alphabetical order from level 1 to level 2 and eventually up to level 3 regions.
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	www.maplandia.com /finland/oulu (813 words)

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