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In the picture: Professor Gary Knight, Professor Helen Lawton Smith, Director Juha Kytölä and Vice-rector Martin Meyer
News 17.06.2025
The 4th International Conference on Global and Sustainable Innovation was held at the University of Vaasa on 9.-10.6.2025, bringing together a diverse group of researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers from around the world. The event served as a platform for exploring how collaborative innovation can drive sustainability transitions across business, energy and society.
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News 04.10.2024
The Research Council of Finland has granted the University of Vaasa 1.3 million euros as part of an international research project funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and its partners. The project will develop genetically modified crops for biofuel production. The University of Vaasa is studying the social acceptance and ethical issues of genetically modified crops and biofuels produced from them.
Tiphaine Delecour, Ausrine Silenskyte ja Shariful Chowdhary
News 02.01.2024
Increasing pressure for social sustainability and upcoming reporting requirements can become a bureaucratic burden for businesses. A new EU-funded project DEI4SME aims to develop an effective tool to empower small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to address Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI) activities. When using the tool and open access learning materials created, educators in higher and vocational education institutions will be able to equip learners to manage DEI issues in business. 
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News 15.03.2022
How widespread are the impacts of STI policy in the society? are there groups that are not covered by the current policy measures? The first policy brief of the University of Vaasa's ELVIS project discusses about the concept of inclusive innovation policy and presents findings from the new comparative analysis. It also makes recommendations for developing inclusive innovation policy in Finland.
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News 03.02.2022
The energy price rally seen this winter has left many households and housing associations wondering how to cut costs. Production of energy to own use and the various energy communities that go with it could help. The University of Vaasa is participating in a new DigiDecarbon project that explores citizens' energy communities. The project has received a total of €2.4 million in funding from the Research Council of Finland (Suomen Akatemia).
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News 08.07.2021
Doctor of Science (Economics and Business Administration), Jouni K. Juntunen has been appointed Associate Professor of Innovation Management (School of Technology and Innovations) at the University of Vaasa. He has started in his new position on June 7th. Juntunen is looking for solutions to the climate crisis through open innovation. Open innovations are created together with the company's external stakeholders.
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News 24.05.2021
Recent FAIR -project study report by researchers Antti Mäenpää, Helka Kalliomäki and Vili Ampuja from the University of Vaasa describes that electric aviation is a new potential opportunity for the Kvarken region.