Kultaranta talks tour to be held remotely on 21-28 April

A Kultaranta discussion tour of President Sauli Niinistö will be held at three universities from 21 April to 28 April remotely to pave the way for the upcoming Kultaranta talks, said the Office of the President in a press release on Thursday.

Three discussions will be held on three topics on great power politics, climate change, and the international economy by exchanging thoughts with students.

The university tour under the Kultaranta title will be organised jointly with the University of Lapland, the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT) and the Aalto University.

“We’ll talk about human responsibilities; the future must be secured,” said Niinistö, summing up the basic idea of the discussion series.

The Kultaranta tour will start on 21 April at the University of Lapland with the title “Great power politics is intensifying: How do we safeguard Finland?”

The discussion topic at the LUT on 26 April will be “Combating climate change is a human responsibility”.

The final discussion of the tour will take place at the Aalto University on 28 April on the topic “Money is increasing and technology is revolutionising: Will the economic order change?”

The discussions that are arranged by remote connection, can be followed live in Finnish at the address presidentti.fi/kultaranta.

The Kultaranta university tour will pave the way for the Kultaranta Talks to be held later this year.

The Kultaranta talks so far have been held eight times and normally a discussion took place for two days at the president’s summer residence Kultaranta, with experts from home and abroad taking part.