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  Oulu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oulu or Uleåborg in Swedish (65°00'N 25°28'E) is a city and municipality of about 130,000 inhabitants in the province of Oulu and the region of Northern Ostrobothnia, in Finland.
Oulu was founded on August 8, 1605 by King Karl IX of Sweden opposite the castle built on the island of Linnansaari.
Oulu is situated by the Gulf of Bothnia, at the mouth of Oulu River, which is an ancient trading site.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oulu   (498 words)

  
 Congress Oulu [congress city]
City of Oulu, Northern Ostrobothnia Hospital District, Nokia, University of Oulu and Stora Enso are the largest employers in the region.
The history of the globalization of the city of Oulu began as early as 1605 with the founding of the city.
Oulu salmon has been, in its time, a valued dish at the Swedish court and fish are still caught in the mouth of the Oulujoki river, in the centre of the city.
www.congressoulu.fi /english/congresscity.html   (726 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Oulu, Scandinavia (Scandinavian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
115,493), capital of Oulu prov., W central Finland, at the mouth of the Oulu River on the Gulf of Bothnia.
It was destroyed by fire in 1882 and rebuilt.
The Univ. of Oulu was founded in 1959.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/Oulu.html   (198 words)

  
 Oulu Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Province of Oulu is a province of Finland.
The province of Oulu was first introduced in 1775.
The regions in Oulu Province are divided on 51 municipalities, including the city of Oulu.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oulu_(province)   (171 words)

  
 Oulu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Finnish region of Oulu stretches from the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia to the Russian border, and is about equal in size to the whole of Netherlands.
Oulu has emerged as one of the most modern focal points for education in Finland, and both the University of Oulu and Oulu Polytechnic have close international contacts in the fields that they represent.
The Oulu region is an internationally recognised centre of technology and expertise where con-scious efforts have been made to develop ideal conditions for new technology and practical cooperation between training, research and private enterprise.
www.beac.st /?id=282   (345 words)

  
 Civil Aviation Administration - Oulu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The inauguration of Oulu’s new airport was then celebrated one day before the airport was opened to traffic.” However, air traffic in Oulu had started already in 1936 at Oritkari Airport.
Today Oulu Airport is Finland’s second biggest airport after Helsinki-Vantaa if one considers the number of passengers and amount of freight transported.
Oulu Airport serves not only passengers but also local companies, which it provides with rapid mail flight and air freight connections.
www.ilmailulaitos.fi /airport_oulu   (328 words)

  
 Oulu Telecom - Building Broadband Finland  [Metro Ethernet Switching Solution for Service Providers] - Cisco ...
Oulu is now able to deliver symmetrical connections of up to 15Mbit/s, enough to stream digital television to its customers' PCs and still have sufficient bandwidth remaining to run high-speed Internet applications and services simultaneously.
Oulu Telecom is working directly with its own and other local cable operators, and has issued a challenge to national content providers to invest in the area and provide content to its LRE customers.
Oulu Telecom uses the term `real broadband' to describe its service offering, which reflects the ability to provide connectivity that is the same upstream and downstream.
www.cisco.com /en/US/netsol/ns341/ns396/ns223/ns227/networking_solutions_customer_profile09186a00801e35cb.html   (3096 words)

  
 Edu in Oulu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In a short line: Oulu is the 6th biggest city in Finland (120 000 hab.).
Oulu University is the 2nd biggest in Finland (its airport is also the 2nd busiest).
EDU IN OULU is a weblog about the stay of Eduardo Gouveia in Oulu for 4 months in the Fall 2004 as an exchange student under the Erasmus programme.
eduinoulu.blogdrive.com   (4574 words)

  
 Oulu on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Oulu, Minn., glassmaker transforms 'clean dirt' into fragile masterpieces.
Immeuble de Nokia, à Oulu, en Finlande L'équipementier en télécommunications finlandais Nokia devrait atteindre ses object.
Le siège de Nokia à Oulu, en Finlande Le groupe finlandais Nokia, numéro un mondial des téléphones portables, a une nouvel.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/Oulu.asp   (583 words)

  
 Oulu, Finland, Pictures
Oulu (Swedish Uleåborg), city in western Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
Oulu was founded in 1375 by the Swedes as a fortress against the Russians.
It was incorporated in 1610, and during the 19th century it became a prosperous commercial center despite being badly damaged by fire in 1822.
www.greatestcities.com /Europe/Finland/Oulu_Uleaborg_city.html   (198 words)

  
 Untitled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Oulu is the sixth largest town in Finland, and the centre of business life in Nothern Finland.
During the last decade Oulu evolved into a nationally, and also internationally, significant knowledge centre in high technology, in IT and life sciences in particular.
Oulu is easily accesible: traffic connections to all other Finnish locations are fast and direct, whether you drive or travel by coach, train or air.
www.sokoshotels.fi /english/basic_templates/main.cfm?doc=2249   (67 words)

  
 Congress Oulu [introduction]
The service for business travellers, Meet Oulu Hitech technology visits, lowers the threshold of visiting high technology companies because the main focus of the service is on business visits.
In addition to the company visits, it is also possible to visit public organsations such as the City of Oulu, Oulu University, Oulu Polytechnic, Oulu Chamber of Commerce and the Council of Oulu Region.
Meet Oulu Hitech technology visits has been developed by a Oulu City Tourist Services project that was financed by the City of Oulu as well as European Regional Development Fund and the Regional Council of Northern Ostrobothnia.
www.congressoulu.fi /english/introduction.html   (450 words)

  
 City of Oulu - services
The City of Oulu is the capital of northern Finland.
The Oulu Region has almost 200,000 inhabitants and it is the fastest growing region in Finland.
Nowadays the Oulu Region is well known for its technology, the hi-tech growth having started after the establishment of Oulu University in 1958.
www.ouka.fi /palvelut/services   (251 words)

  
 In English
The guiding principle of the festival week is to act as a present to all city dwellers as a part of the anniversary ceremonies.
The meaning is to arrange a happening in which all city dwellers can follow the history of Oulu from its very early period up till the future.
Director of the 400 anniversary of Oulu is Head of Communications Sirkka Keränen.
www.oulu.ouka.fi /Oulu400/english.html   (234 words)

  
 Information about Oulu
Oulu is the largest city in Northern Finland.
Founded in 1605 by King Karl IX of Sweden opposite the castle built on the island of Linnansaari, Oulu is situated by the Gulf of Bothnia, at the mouth of Oulu River, which is an ancient trading site.
Oulu is known for its cooperative, competent people, active development, high-class services, versatile business structure and strong economy.
oulu.ouka.fi /city/english   (135 words)

  
 IWCT'05 - OULU FINLAND
The hotel is located in the heart of the city, yet on the seashore overlooking the Gulf of Bothnia and Oulu River.
Ramada Hotel Oulu is pleasantly situated in the centre of the town, in a beautiful location next to the Ainola Park and the Cathedral.
Hotel Restaurant Lasaretti is situated in a culturally and historically valuable setting on the island of Lasaretinsaari close to the centre of Oulu.
www.cwc.oulu.fi /iwct2005/accommodation.html   (583 words)

  
 Biocenter Oulu
Biocenter Oulu Graduate School was established in 1995 at the University of Oulu and it is one of the largest graduate schools in the field of bioscience and biomedicine in Finland.
Biocenter Oulu Graduate School organises courses, establishes thesis committees, gives grants for visits in foreign and Finnish laboratories and for participation in courses in Finland and abroad.
All education is given in English and is open for all the researchers at the University of Oulu.
www.biocenter.oulu.fi /1-graduate_school-2-school_information.html   (164 words)

  
 Oulu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Oulu is town at the north of Finland with the biggest university of europe at this latitude.
I spent 6 months there to work on my final study project at the university hospital of Oulu.
My day life was very busy however I spent really nice time thanks to the fact that the town is really human and student houses were just perfect to meet people.
thierry.bonnefoux.free.fr /MonSiteOueb/oulu.html   (335 words)

  
 Turbojugend Oulu -- Love It To Deathpunk --
Oulu is not a place to live, it's a state of liver.
Turbojugend Oulu is politically, religiously and ideologically independent organisation which does not support or practice any of the previously mentioned
Besides arranging live music events, we have made a tradition in organizing nice journeys to the "nature" or wherever the action is. Please, take a look on our Jugend fieldtrips.
www.turbojugend-oulu.com /about.html   (213 words)

  
 New GMP plant starts in Oulu, Finland (Medipolis GMP OY) - Pressi.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Oulu region is well-known for its innovative environment within the hi-tech industry and health care sectors.
International connections from and to Oulu are flexible with tens of flights made every day by several airlines.
The City of Oulu has 125,000 people, and is located 400 miles north from Finland's capital Helsinki.
www.pressi.com /int/release/89361.html   (417 words)

  
 PhotoStories : Oulu City Pictures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Oulu is located in an area that has no hills or any other shapes in the land profile.
Oulu has very cozy city harbor and several walk-only streets which are full of life especially at summer time.
After all, Oulu is a summer city showing it's most beautiful face in July.
tilhi.com /photostories/oulu   (461 words)

  
 University of Oulu | Department of Biochemistry
[University of Oulu] > [Faculty of Science] > [Department of Biochemistry] >
The focus of biochemical research is the study of living organisms at the molecular level.
Modern biotechnology, based primarily on molecular techniques, is presently one of the most rapidly expanding areas of science and is expected to rival the success of the electronics industry in the near future.
www.biochem.oulu.fi /index_e.html   (162 words)

  
 Oulu - Current News & Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
OULU, Finland — Two South Carolina boys have languished for almost two months in the high-security ward of a children's psychiatric unit while the courts...
Vanhanen was speaking at a seminar in Oulu arranged by the newspaper Kaleva.
The municipality of Oulunsalo, located near the northern city of Oulu, was something of a forerunner in the use of private contractors.
news.daylightonline.com /2003/Oulu.html   (1421 words)

  
 Tourism
With an airport on the edge of town and a train station in the city centre, Oulu is well connected to the rest of Finland and indeed the world.
The traditional culinary specialities are always worth bringing home with you, and to find these in Oulu you only need to know the way to Kauppahalli, the Market hall by the sea shore next to the market place.
When in Oulu, it is worth keeping in mind that the city is the cradle of Nokia mobile phones and Polar heart rate monitors.
oulu.ouka.fi /english/tourism.html   (759 words)

  
 University of Oulu | Department of Information Processing Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Our department is involved in Infotech Oulu, a unit for the coordination of state-of-the-art research on information technology at the university.
Infotech Oulu is contributed to by two research groups led by the department, INTERACT and OASIS.
In addition to the teaching given in Oulu, the department’s regional activities are strong and varied.
www.tol.oulu.fi /english   (634 words)

  
 Texture Workshop 99, Infotech Oulu
An international workshop on Texture Analysis in Machine Vision will be arranged in Oulu, Finland, on June 14-15, 1999.
Oulu is a world-famous high-technology city in North Finland, situated not far from the Arctic Circle.
Some financial support for the foreign participants presenting a paper in the workshop is available on request, covering accommodation expenses and the participation fee.
www.ee.oulu.fi /mvmp/texture99   (287 words)

  
 LA-Times--mobiles-in-Finland-(McConnel)--
Nowhere has mobile communication caught on as it has in sparsely populated Finland, where nearly 70% of the 5.3 million residents are armed with wireless phones and an ever-expanding array of tools, games and services they can use on the fly.
The University of Oulu, long a teacher-training institution, has reinvented itself over the past decade to prepare the next generation of engineers and programmers.
While the mobile madness has mostly been a boon, some observers fear that the explosive growth of new wealth has polarized Finnish society and deepened the despair of those made jobless by the decline of traditional industries, such as pulp and paper mills and mining.
www.wave-guide.org /archives/emf-l/Nov1999/LA-Times--mobiles-in-Finland-(McConnel)--.html   (2123 words)

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