University of Vaasa has appointed its first professors of practice: Glenn Edens, professor of practice in industrial management; Eero Lehti, professor of practice in entrepreneurship; and Sami Karhu, professor of practice in cooperatives.
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The board of the University of Vaasa has appointed Jyrki Vuorinen as the university's new vice-rector of education. His five-year term of office will begin on 1 March.
In Finnish universities, doctoral dissertations are made available to the public before the public defence. Each university has its own tradition. At the University of Vaasa, doctoral dissertations are nailed with a hammer in a nailing ceremony – that is to say, a physical copy of your doctoral thesis is hung on a board with a string and you hit the fixed nail with a hammer.
How can we tackle climate change with renewable energy and sustainable economies? Higher education institutions in Vaasa offer an open online course on energy transition and sustainable economies for everyone who wishes to understand the huge transformation the society is facing as we head towards a more sustainable future.
A zero-emission data centre laboratory WSTAR is being built in Vaasa. The University of Vaasa, Åbo Akademi and Novia University of Applied Sciences and Vaasa University of Applied Sciences have received almost 1.9 million euros in funding from the Academy of Finland for new infrastructure.
Last week at the international small satellite conference in Berlin, small satellite missions of ten research institutes, research groups and SMEs were awarded a free launch into space. Kvarken’s very own KvarkenSat cube satellite was amongst the winners.
The University of Vaasa strengthens its high-quality research in banking and finance by recruiting more experts. One of the latest appointments has been Professor Timothy King, who started as the new professor of finance this autumn. King says he wants to develop research and other collaboration within the university and strengthen the university’s brand as an international research university.
A new doctoral dissertation by Amir Farughian from the University of Vaasa proposes innovative methods for determining the locations of earth faults in certain power grids where locating a fault is more challenging. In an earth fault or ground fault, the conductor that is carrying the current comes in direct contact with the earth.
Doctor of Science in Economics Arto Rajala, has been appointed Dean of the School of Marketing and Communication at the University of Vaasa as of November 1st, 2022.
The perceived quality of wooden products is affected not only by their technical characteristics but also by the consumer’s characteristics, environment and expectations related to sustainable development, says Charlotta Harju in her doctoral dissertation. The study provides new information on how consumers evaluate the quality of wooden products and their sustainability aspects in the context of housing.