Simply Smart
Vaasa University of Applied Sciences’ research, development and innovation research areas bring companies, communities and other public actors together with research. The research areas offer practical solutions to sustainable development, welfare services and smart everyday life. The research areas work in a phenomenon-oriented and multidisciplinary manner so that new information can be put into practice as quickly and seamlessly as possible.
VAMK helps in creating smarter society
Smart Business
focuses on promoting business innovations and sustainable growth. This research area combines the latest technologies with business expertise to support companies in their development and transformation processes.
Smart Design
The research research area combines innovation, circular economy, and digital expertise through systemic design methods.
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Smart Industry
aims to find and implement actions that promote industries’ carbon neutrality. Smart Industry uses digitalisation to develop green and smart industry.
Smart Society
responds in a socially and ethically sustainable way to societal challenges such as the aging of the population by utilising digitisation, financial know-how and service design.
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Mari Pohjanniemi
Research Area Manager,
RDI and Business Unit
