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News 11.03.2025

Neurodiversity at the University of Vaasa: Diversity enriches the learning environment

The University of Vaasa is creating a learning environment that supports a wide range of learners and promotes an understanding and appreciation of neurodiversity. Our university provides support and practical solutions to help our students achieve their best. We enrich our community through diversity.

Dissertation 10.03.2025

Public home care should dare to take risks – traditional leadership methods hinder renewal

Risk-taking is often seen primarily as a threat in the public sector. However, home care service managers believe that increasing managerial freedom and adopting entrepreneurial risk-taking are key to developing better public services, reveals Virpi Kamunen in her doctoral dissertation for the University of Vaasa.

News 25.02.2025

Good and bad vegetarian food

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

University of Vaasa conducts research on utilising buildings as energy sources

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.

News 19.02.2025

The University of Vaasa and ELLIS Institute Finland: Call for Professors in AI research in space applications, machine learning and energy and optimisation

The University of Vaasa, together with ELLIS Institute Finland, is inviting applications for three tenure track positions in Artificial Intelligence research, focusing on space applications, machine learning, energy and optimisation. The application deadline is 9 March, 2025.

Jyri Paasonen tutkija turvallisuus Vaasan yliopisto

News 18.02.2025

Jyri Paasonen began as Associate Professor of Security Law at the University of Vaasa: "Our security environment is in constant change"

At the beginning of the year, Jyri Paasonen started as Associate Professor of Security Law at the University of Vaasa. This is Finland's first tenure track position in the field of security law. There has also been no university teaching or professorship in security law in Finland.

News 17.02.2025

Finnish Cultural Foundation awarded a total of 128 000 euros in grants to the University of Vaasa PhD students

As a result of its October round of applications, the Finnish Cultural Foundation awarded grants to four doctoral students from the University of Vaasa.

Henkilöt rivissä. Vasemmalta: Rebekah Rousi, Nils Ehrenberg, Catharina von Koskull, Virpi Roto, ja Martina Čaić.

News 14.02.2025

A humane approach to new technologies – researchers delve into the ethical challenges of AI

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.

News 13.02.2025

Research and Competence Center for Engine Technology in Vaasa

The University of Vaasa and AGCO Power are establishing a research and competence center for engine technology to expand low-carbon energy solutions for off-road heavy equipment.

News 12.02.2025

University of Vaasa among the best in Finland for research quality in business and engineering

According to the latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings by Subject, the University of Vaasa’s research quality is the highest in Finland in engineering and second in business. The university also ranks highly internationally – the quality of research in these fields is among the top 20 in Europe, and among the top 50 in the world in business.

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