Requirements to develop public service ethics are increasing in Finland. Ethical management and governance rely largely on regulation at the moment, according to M.Sc. Venla Mäntysalo's dissertation in Public Management.
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In his dissertation, Jari Lahtinen examines fresh-water closed-loop gas exhaust scrubbers, which are used on merchant ships.
– Scrubbers that use fresh water produce so little effluent that, in the future, it will be possible to build ships with zero effluent discharge into the sea, says Lahtinen.
– Scrubbers that use fresh water produce so little effluent that, in the future, it will be possible to build ships with zero effluent discharge into the sea, says Lahtinen.
University of Vaasa granted the Research Act and Teaching Act awards of last year in the anniversary ceremony on Monday 27th of January. Research Act of the Year 2015 award was granted to Professor Seppo Niemi from the Faculty of Technology. University Lecturer Ari Huuhka from the Faculty of Business Studies received Teaching Act of the Year 2015 award.
December’s Research News of the University of Vaasa has been published. It is a publication presenting the research at the University of Vaasa. In it you can find information on our latest research.
The societal impact of the University of Vaasa’s research is strong according to the Final Report of the Research Evaluation, which was published today.
Sylvi Elsner's doctoral dissertation deals with language use in the political context of migration and is highly topical in view of the current influx of refugees in Europe. The main focus of the study is on the word Zuwanderer (a broad term to cover all kinds of immigrant) which came into general political use in Germany at the beginning of the new millennium.
The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (SLS) has given 368 000 euros funding for the research project about Swedish immersion.
The research project is called “Samverkan mellan språklig praxis, flerspråkig identitet och språkideologi” and it is led by professor Siv Björklund from the department of Scandinavian Languages. Other members of the research project are research manager Karita Mård-Miettinen and doctoral students Pia Hirvonen, Annika Peltoniemi and Sanna Pakarinen
The research project is called “Samverkan mellan språklig praxis, flerspråkig identitet och språkideologi” and it is led by professor Siv Björklund from the department of Scandinavian Languages. Other members of the research project are research manager Karita Mård-Miettinen and doctoral students Pia Hirvonen, Annika Peltoniemi and Sanna Pakarinen
The Foundation for Economic Education has awarded grants to at least 20 researchers from the University of Vaasa. The sum in total was 129 500 euros.
Karita Luokkanen-Rabetino’s thesis deals with firms’ long term success and survival in furniture manufacturing. She aims to build an understanding of how SMEs adapt their product market strategy through exploitation and exploration in a changing business environment in the long term.
Juho Ylimäki’s thesis in Management studies designing and management of dyadic R&D collaborations.
– Collaboration between Finnish companies is in principle based on trust and there has been much talk about partnerships. However, the practices for R&D collaboration vary considerably. The companies’ perceptions of collaboration are sometimes astoundingly different, which leads too often to disappointments, says Ylimäki.
Ylimäki proposes a model for managing and designing dyadic R&D collaboration.
– Collaboration between Finnish companies is in principle based on trust and there has been much talk about partnerships. However, the practices for R&D collaboration vary considerably. The companies’ perceptions of collaboration are sometimes astoundingly different, which leads too often to disappointments, says Ylimäki.
Ylimäki proposes a model for managing and designing dyadic R&D collaboration.