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Teuvo Peltoniemi was one of the four hotlisted nominees for the "Editorial of the Year" award at the 2009 Competition of the Finnish Periodical Publishers Association.

Teuvo Peltoniemi started a blog (in Finnish) in December 2008 Teuvoblogi

Mr Peltoniemi gave a Guest lecture at the Kyungwon University, Seoul, Korea, June 11, 2008 on "Finnish e-health tools to help citizens on addictions and other psycho-social problems..

Varjomaailma (Shadow World), received at the e-Inclusion Ministerial Conference in Vienna on 1st December 2008 the award: "Winner at the 2008 European e-Inclusion Awards at the Marginalised young people category".

Mr Peltoniemi received the "Science Journalist Annual Award" by the Finnish Association of Science Editors and Journalists at the National Science Forum on 11 January 2007.

In the Living archives series of the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation excerpts from the classic television program by Teuvo Peltoniemi
Haere mai - welcome to New Zealand

(TV-2; Feb 3, 1978).

www.utopias.info
presents the oldest Finnish Utopian settlement in the USA - California Finnish cooperative farm.

An open letter to Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen: "Prime Minister and children in alcohol families"

Important editorial of the Tiimi magazine.

Suomalaisten lasinen lapsuus 1994 ja 2004.
Major study on Children in Alcohol Families.

Experiences and perspectives in using telematic prevention on sensitive health issues. Pages 99-105 in Latifi 2004.

Suomeksi/in Finnish

Teuvo Peltoniemi

Lic. Soc. Sc. Teuvo Peltoniemi is Senior Adviser on media and substances issues and Editor-in-Chief of Tiimi Journal and related web publications at the A-Clinic Foundation in Helsinki, Finland.

Mr. Peltoniemi has MA and Lic. Soc. Sc. degrees in sociology, social policy and mass media from the Universities of Tampere and Helsinki.

On European level he is the Vice President of the European Encare Network on children in substance abuse families and President of the European Prevnet telematic network.

Teuvo Peltoniemi is a member of several governmental and NGO working groups and a consultant to Sosiomedia - Helsinki Educational Media.

He has previously worked as a university teacher and researcher as well as journalist for the Finnish radio and television and video companies, developed prevention projects and written, edited or translated 16 books on alcohol, drug policy, family violence, utopian emigration, traffic and telematics. He regularly writes general and scientific articles and presents papers at national and international conferences so that number of titles in his CV is closing 500.

Mr. Peltoniemi appears frequently in the Finnish media as a specialist on alcohol, drugs, net addiction, information society and other related topics. He has been the main organiser of a special training seminar for journalists on addictions over 25 years.

Mr Peltoniemi and his teams has received a number of national and international awards. The most recent was the 2009 Competition of the Finnish Periodical Publishers Association, where he was one of the four hotlisted nominees for the "Editorial of the Year" award. Others include "Press Officer of the Year" award by ProCom - Finnish Association of Communications Professionals, 2006 - see presentation video (wmv, 4Mb) - the Special Award for AddictionLink given by the Prime Minister in the Best Practices in Information Society in 2006 competition, the 2007 "Science Journalist Award" by the Finnish Association of Science Editors and Journalists and a Honorable mention in the 2007 Social Marketing Campaigns of the Year competition as well as for Varjomaailma (Shadow World), "Winner at the 2008 European e-Inclusion Awards at the Marginalised young people category", received at the e-Inclusion Ministerial Conference in Vienna in 2008. Personal stories about Mr Peltoniemi were published (in Finnish) for instance in Kirjatyö 4/2007 and in the University of Helsinki Yliopisto magazine 5/2007.

The A-Clinic Foundation is the largest NGO in Finland (over 800 staff) specialized on treatment and prevention of substance abuse and other addictions.

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Updated April 12, 2009