Research Agencies
The Academy of Finland (AKA) [external link]
The Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (TEKES) [external link]
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Research Strategies and Priority Areas
Finnish Research Roadmap [external link]
ICT Research Programme Strategy [external link]
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Estimated Public Funding of ICT Research 2013
€170 – €190 million
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Organisations
Tivit Programmes [external link]
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland [external link]
Finnish Internet Forum [external link]
The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference Research (COIN [external link]
The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Generic Intelligent Machines Research [external link]
Centre of Excellence in Smart Radios and Wireless Research [external link]
Centre for Wireless Communications [external link]
The Computational Science Research Programme [external link]
The IT Centre for Science [external link]
The IT Centre for Science[external link]
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Projects & Initiatives
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Communciation Systems
The Communication Systems group studies the future internet with a focus on three viewpoints: information security, interactive applications, and embedded/distributed implementations.
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Cloud Software Programme
The Cloud Software program aims to significantly improve the competitive position of Finnish software intensive industry in global markets in the areas of operational efficiency, user experience, web software, open systems, security engineering and sustainable development.
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Data to Intelligence
The aim of the Data to Intelligence (D2I) project is to develop intelligent tools and methods for managing, refining and utilizing diverse data in order to enable the development of innovative business solutions.
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DiGiHybrid
The aim of this project is to use Internet of Things technology to develop fault-tolerant and reliable controllers for digital hydraulic valves, The project team will design second generation digital hydraulic valves that are energy efficient. They also aim to improve the controllability and the fault tolerance of control systems via developing a modular control code.
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Digital Services
The TIVIT Digital Services Program is an ecosystem effort to pool services enablers and platforms so as to rapidly launch, horizontalize and ensure the maintenance of new mobile internet services.
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EVE
The aim of the EVE programme is to create a community of electric vehicle and support system developers with close contacts to international research and business networks. The project also focuses on developing test environments and standards for the industry.
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Finland-China ICT Alliance
The Finland – China ICT Alliance is meant to become an open, scalable and sustainable platform for cooperation in ICT and digital services. The alliance aims both to create new business opportunities and to help in addressing the future challenges related to the environment, energy, traffic, well-being, health, and the creation of future urban environments.
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FReSCo
In the FReSCo project, a model will be developed for future resilient control systems capable of measuring a wide set of observables, including inexact ones derived from the environment.
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Ubicom
The Ubicom – Embedded ICT project strengthens research into ubiquitous computing, increases the resources available for the industry’s commercial competitive offerings, enhances the international cooperation environment and spurs on cooperation between different branches of industry by creating new industry networks and industry standards.
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WiFiUS
Wireless Innovation between Finland and U.S. (WiFiUS) provides a platform for building long-term research and education collaboration between the two world leaders in the field of wireless networking.
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Witty City
The aim of the Witty City programme is to provide people with better living and working environments and to create opportunities for enterprise to bring new products and services on the market. City and town administrations will play a key role in the project as they are central players in such areas as planning, procurement and the choice of energy sources.
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