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Minna Martikainen Jacob Wallenberg
News 12.03.2025
The Nordic countries and Europe must take an active role and strenghten our competitiveness, said Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman of the Board of Investor, at the honorary doctorate celebration held in his honour at the University of Vaasa. According to Wallenberg, competitiveness can be supported by investments in research and development, infrastructure, more developed European capital markets, fossil-free energy supplies, accelerating AI adoption, as well as by strengthening collaboration between businesses and universities.
Kuva opiskelijoista
News 11.03.2025
The first DEI4SME Hackathon, held in Vaasa, Finland, in February 2025, was a collaborative event organized by the University of Vaasa and international partners from Austria. The hackathon brought together ten companies from Finland and Austria, nearly 200 students, and around 30 business, education, and sustainability experts to address diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) challenges in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Roosa-Maaria Malila
News 25.02.2025
There are strong images - both admiration and irritation - associated with the popularisation of vegetarianism and the use of meat substitutes. How can vegetarian food become more socially acceptable and find its way onto the tables of more and more of us?
Talvinen maisema Vaasan yliopiston kampukselta. Punatiiliset rakennukset, lumiset tiet ja puut luovat rauhallisen tunnelman. Etualalla pyörätelineitä ja taustalla vanha tehdasrakennus.
News 20.02.2025
The University of Vaasa has received funding from Business Finland for the FlexiPower research and development project, which focuses on developing and commercialising the "Building as a Battery" (BaaB) solution. The project aims to find solutions that utilise existing building infrastructure as flexible energy sources.
Henkilöt rivissä. Vasemmalta: Rebekah Rousi, Nils Ehrenberg, Catharina von Koskull, Virpi Roto, ja Martina Čaić.
News 14.02.2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems are rapidly transforming various sectors, bringing new kinds of ethical challenges with them. In a new open-access book, a multidisciplinary group of scholars offers a timely and critical examination of these technologies from a human-centered perspective. The book focuses on how AI and autonomous systems impact human lives and ways of working.