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RD ACTIVITIESAT NKUASwww.pkamk.fi
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RD at NKUAS

• Starting points for RD at NKUAS
• Working life needs and hopes
• Development of the region in chosen areas
• Integration of RD with education
• Multidisciplinary and innovative approach
• Collaboration locally with companies, education
  providers, regional development organisations and
  other partners
• Collaboration nationally with universities of
  applied sciences, leading research organisations
  and other partners
• Participation in leading international networks
• NKUAS aims to be the best Finnish university of
• applied sciences in 2015 what comes to the impact
  
• and extent of regional development activities.

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RD at NKUAS

• Research and development
• Regional development
• Research and Regional
• Development Services

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Research and Regional Development Services
Kirsi Moberg The Spirit of Woods shown at Koli
in 2006
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RD at NKUAS

• Programmes and projects
• Structural Funds, ESF ERDF
• Centre of Expertise Programme
• Regional Centre Programme
• Private Foundations
• International EU Programmes
• Other international funding programmes
• During 2009, the volume of RD projects at NKUAS
  will be
• EUR 6 million
• Number of projects exceeding 50

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RD at NKUAS

• Specific sectors of RD at NKUAS
• forestry, wood technology, bioenergy
• plastics and metal industry, nanotechnology,
  material technology
• minerals and food clusters
• communications technology
• culture and tourism
• contact centre services
• audiovisual and media production
• health, wellbeing and self sufficiency
• product development and art design
• entrepreneurship

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RD projects at NKUAS

• Examples of on-going projects financed by
  structural funds
• Welfare from tourism Development of
  unobstructed travel
• Commercializing the expertise of bioenergy
• Multidisciplinary innovative development
  environment for products and services
• GLOBRO With training towards international
  project activities
• Development of know-how and well-being in
  e-business
• Development of 24 hour home care in a regional
  collaboration network
• Development of film and adventure tourism in
  North Karelia

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GLOBRO With training towards international
project activities

• Duration 1.5.2008 - 30.4.2010
• NKUAS as Coordinator
• Total costs/funding 405 000
• NKUAS share of funding 32 000
• Funding program ESF / State Provincial Office of
  Eastern Finland
• Objectives of the project
• To improve knowledge and know-how of the
  management of internationally funded research and
  development projects
• To encourage participation to international
  projects and partner networks
• Implementation of the project
• Training on international project management
• Establishment of international partner networks
• Publication Best practices in international
  projects
• Contact person Ms Maria Saastamoinen,
• Research and Regional Development Services
• maria.saastamoinen_at_pkamk.fi
• Tel. [phone]

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RD projects at NKUAS

• Examples of on-going international projects
• MicrE - Micro Waste to Energy Business Micro
  energy to rural enterprise
• DIPRA - Counselling for practice - a pilot of
  improving counselling quality of diabetics
• Bio-Sol ESCo - Expanding biomass and solar
  heating in public and private buildings via the
  energy services approach
• Developing Scots Pine
• SETCOM - Sustainable energy in tourism dominated
  communities
• PELLETime - Solutions for competitive pellet
  production in medium size enterprises

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RD at NKUAS

• Project example
• Developing Scots Pine
• Ms Lea Pesonen
• Promoting entrepreneurship
• at NKUAS
• Mr Heikki Immonen

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Research and Regional Development Services

• Director of Development
• Mr Lasse Neuvonen
• Project Administration Manager
• Mrs Anne Ilvonen
• Project Coordinator
• Mrs Marika Turkia
• Project Planning Officer
• Mr Heikki Immonen
• Contact Firstname.Lastname_at_pkamk.fi

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