CoFi Projects

Työke - Networks to enhance effectiveness of the health and social service reform, promotion of work ability and health of the working

Finnish working life and social and health services are in transition. Health, social services and regional government reform is one of the biggest ever administrative and operational overhauls in Finland. These challenge OHS to change.

 

The aim with this project is to develop functional integration between OHS and social and health services.

 

The project creates and makes way for different types of self-developing networks to regions. The networks produce information and good practices to functional integration between OHS and social and health services and to effective OHS.

 

The project is funded by ESF.

 

CIRCLE - New opportunities for energy and nutrient recycling in water supply

The main objective of the CIRCLE project is to enhance the recycling and re-use of energy and/or nutrients in municipal and agricultural water service processes and businesses in an economically and environmentally sensible way.

The project is finanzed by ERDF.

 

Elli - Promoting cleantech business, efficiency and regional energy production

At the European level the construction sector accounts for 40 percent of total energy consumption and buildings cause 36 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. New regional energy production solutions together with energy efficiency actions will enable the building sector to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Elli project (1.1.2016-31.12.2017, funded by European Regional Development Fund) will define the main aspects of energy efficiency and cleantech in the co-operation district and produce emarketing and communications materials to inform and support businesses. The aims of the project are to promote cleantech and energy efficient business activities and internationalization. Companies will be invited to participate in the project through the Nordic Innovation Accelerator (NIA) platform.

A wide range of energy and cleantech companies, authorities, researchers and educational organizations, and other stakeholders will be involved in energy-efficiency planning in three target residential areas. The residential areas have different requiements and are in different planning stages. Energy analysis, emission modeling and cost analysis will be used to create a development path to all areas.

Companies and other stakeholders will be invited to participate in three future workshops in which will be bilt the alternative future scenaries to support energy-efficient regional planning and sustainable strategies.

Zet
In the Zet project (1.9.2015-28.2.2017) young people develop in collaboration with experts in the game industry a gamified solution for the youth for visioning their future and planning and managing their life.

The goal of the design process is to benefit from the experiences and knowhow of the youth in order to design a gamified solution that suits the concrete needs that the youth have in their everyday and that speaks to the youth in their own language. At the same time, the
process gives the youth success experiences and opportunities to be engaged and have an influence in society. The design process is carried out in separate workshops rounds in Hanko and Lohja.

The Zet project also gathers local actors together in network meetings to be engaged in the design process as well. The meetings provide an opportunity to examine the present-day service supply and compile an operations model to be implemented and work as the base for further collaboration in the future. Also a service concept is developed and piloted to support the use of the gamified solution as part of the services that the youth use. Based on the experiences of the participative solution design process also other activities and service concepts may be designed. A guide book of the participative gamified solution design process is formulated so that similar processes may be conducted by other actors interested in designing solutions with the youth after the Zet project.

As a concrete result of the project, a gamified solution is designed to be used by the youth either independently or as part of the service that is developed in the project. Concrete benefits are expected also for the unemployed young people that participate in the process. Engagement, the opportunity to make use of one’s know how and experiences and to be active and gain experience in an interesting topic is expected to have positive effects on the self-efficacy beliefs, self-esteem and feeling of control of the youth already during the project.

The project is funded by ESF.

www.zet-hanke.fi  (in Finnish)


MORFEUS - Future value creation in well-being service networks
The joint multidisciplinary project of Laurea University of Applied Sciences and Aalto University, MORFEUS (01/2015–06/2017) aims to study and develop wellbeing services’ multi-actor ecosystems.

The project employs an action research approach and works through service design, information modeling and future studies focusing also on contracting practices. In the project, actors of the ecosystem i.e. companies, public and third sector organizations offering wellbeing services are mapped and the relations between them explored – especially in mental health, child protection and substance abuse related services.

The project is funded by Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation, and 15 partner organizations from private, public, and third sector.

http://morfeus.fi/

Pumppu
Pumppu was a cross regional, ERDF funded project aiming at developing citizen centric welfare services with multiple service providers in the years 2011-2014. In this project, we focused on welfare services as larger entities arranged around the wellbeing pathway. The objective of the project is to design a citizen centric and seamless operations model for the wellbeing pathway and to pilot services that support the caring process.

https://www.laurea.fi/hankkeet/pumppu (in Finnish)

Boat
The main objective of the project Boat was to support the networking of companies, universities, development organisations and authorities related to the technology industry in Baltic Sea area.

Yhdessä
The project Yhdessä developed practices and multi-professional co-operation to promote involvement, commitment and everyday skills of the future or the first-year students in vocational schools.

Sustainable Business Cluster
This project was implemented in cooperation with Novago Yrityskehitys Oy, and was funded by the Uusimaa Regional Council / Regional development funds. The project identified and developed the Western Uusimaa sustainable business cluster.

Foremassi2025
ForeMassi2025 was a long-term network project on foresight of qualitative skills in the wellbeing and security fields, and related  service  design.

Rocket
The main objective of the Rocket project was supporting the  innovation  process  and  internationalization  of  Finnish metal and machinery companies.

RACS - Regional Anticipation of Competencies
RACS was short-term project for planning and implementation of  a  regional  foresight  network.

FUBU
Fubu developed  solutions,  new  know-how  and  service  intensive  network
based business solutions for machine and metal companies.

Merios - The Marine Industry Know-how Foresight Project 
Merios aimed to provide views on changes in work tasks, methods and conditions in the future. These views were taken further to gather information about the type of skills needed in the future. Results can be used in qualifications, training programs and core curricula, as well as educational content development.

SinoFutu 

This project explored a company’s strategic action alternatives in the future scenarios illustrating the development of China and Asia in the long run (e.g. organizational structure, alliances, business models).

Sustainable Community Scenarios

The Sustainable Community Scenarios  project investigated alternative futures for organising people’s lives in order to live, work, travel, eat, recreate, construct, care for the elderly etc. sustainably, in a sustainable community. This implies a community that follows the principles of ecological, social and economic sustainability both in regard to its structures as well as its activities in the long run, here to the year 2025. The research partners were The University of Helsinki and Laurea University of Applied Sciences.

MyWellbeing

The MyWellbeing project was based on the notion of a citizen as an empowered and fully informed partner in various wellbeing services. The MyWellbeing project aimed to provide a solution by which citizens can better cope with information in different life situations. Project partners were the University of Technology, Kuopio University, Savonia University of Applied Sciences, The University of Tampere and Åbo Akademi University.
http://omahyvinvointi.utu.fi/.

Innorisk

The objective of the INNORISK project was to improve companies’ long-term ability to renew their business especially by future-oriented innovation process model producing precise solutions to the market. The project was run in cooperation with the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.http://virtual.vtt.fi/virtual/proj3/innorisk/summary_in_english.htm