Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture has awarded the State Awards for Public Information to significant work in the field of public information in science, the arts and technology.

The Committee for Public Information (TJNK) has awarded EUR 400 000 as public information grants. The Committee received 412 grant applications, of which 56 were financed. Most of the grants were awarded to non-fiction books.

Professor Pertti Mustajoki received a lifetime award for extremely important long-term public information work in the field of health and healthy living.