The Anna Lindh Head of National Network in Finland is TAPRI, a research centre with national vocation within the University of Tampere. Its main goal is to conduct scientific activities in peace research and to serve Finnish society in these fields of civil activity including universities, research centers and institutes as well as NGOs, media, schools and governmental agencies. Under the general title “Peaceful Transformation”, the institute has three main research areas: political change and security in Europe, new forms of conflicts and their resolution and the TAPRI Mediterranean Studies Project.

The Head of Network has also been involved in hosting one of the annual meetings of the Anna Lindh Foundation and actively mobilizing organizations within the framework of the ‘1001 Actions for Dialogue’ campaign.