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The health benefits of exercise are hardly surprising to anyone. It goes without saying that an active lifestyle increases well-being, gives energy, and helps you fall asleep easily at night.
Vappu (May Day) is the highlight of student life and you might look forward to celebrating it all year round. Or, to be more precise, at University of Vaasa you look forward for Wappu Crawl, with cerebrations starting already in mid-April.
Xiaoshu Lu, PhD, has joined the University of Vaasa as Professor of Energy Technology, her main research area being the use of renewable energy sources in building engineering. Her research group aims to provide solutions to reduce carbon emissions in the built environment through renewable energy, energy storage and artificial intelligence technologies, among others.
Dynamic capacities could help wellbeing services counties to modernise and respond to changes in their operating environment. Juha Post's doctoral dissertation at the University of Vaasa found that the preparatory phase of the counties did not in itself generate new dynamic capabilities, but did provide a basis for their emergence.
Maciej Mikulski, PhD, has been appointed Professor of Energy Technology specialising in Internal Combustion Engines at the University of Vaasa. While acknowledging the role of electrification, Mikulski believes that the era of internal combustion engines is not coming to an end but rather entering a new chapter. Fuel flexibility and new carbon-neutral synthetic fuels will bring new challenges but also new opportunities to engine research.
Researchers from the University of Vaasa and the Luleå University of Technology were given the best paper award in the Entrepreneurship & Small Business track at the Association of Marketing Theory and Practice's AMTP conference in the United States.
The aim of the Finnish universities is to streamline certificate-based admission and to ensure that the study opportunities are not unnecessarily restricted by subject choices made at general upper secondary level. This would ease the pressures experienced by general upper secondary students. About half of all new university students are admitted on the basis of their certificates.
According to Bening Mayanti's doctoral dissertation at the University of Vaasa, the use of life cycle assessment combined with economic models can help companies to take steps toward the circular economy.
University of Vaasa aims to provide new knowledge and practices for a better quality of life. The Co-creative Snacks project brought together two controversial phenomena – snacking and gaming – in an effort to promote healthy snacking practices among consumers.