The tax exemption for the gain on the transfer of one's own home and the transfer tax exemption for a first home should be specified, says Petra Lyly, who is defending her dissertation at the University of Vaasa.
The institutions of higher education are responding to the needs of the energy technology cluster and the growing shortage of experts in the Vaasa region.
With the increasing digitalization in manufacturing industries, companies start to integrate big data analytics into business processes and sell smart services. However, people tend to resist change, remain sceptical about unknown products and technologies and avoid new ways of doing work. According to Valeria Boldosova's doctoral dissertation, using deliberate storytelling in the workplace might help to deal with these problems.
The Board of the Foundation for Economic Education (Liikesivistysrahasto) has granted at least 664 000 euros for the University of Vaasa researchers and research groups.
According to a new doctoral dissertation, a jointly building group can become a valuable resource for customers if the group’s role and communication falls into place. At worst, it can result in frustration, tension and competition between different objectives.
According to Eveliina Salmela’s new dissertation, it is possible to gain useful information through online communities, provided that the message is correctly formulated and polite, and the person presenting the question is willing to contribute to the community. The study provides new information on the ways in which users of heat pumps utilise online discussion forums to find answers to a variety of questions.
Living abroad has a significant impact on the career identities, career capital development and subjective well-being of expatriate partners. Companies and organisations should pay much more attention to the situation of the partners of their international employees, shows a recent doctoral dissertation by Kaisu Kanstrén.
Moussa Ahmad’s doctoral dissertation evaluates the Finnish integration programme for 2016–2019 from the perspective of refugees. According to the dissertation, the problem is not the programme itself, but its priorities and implementation.
KvarkenSat is a joint small satellite between the Ostrobothnian provinces and Västerbotten, which is due to be launched into space in just over a year. The small satellite is the result of cooperation across the Kvarken. It also demonstrates that the conquest of space is not just for space superpowers. KvarkenSat will be the first satellite to be registered by the University of Vaasa