ONGOING PROJECTS

Harmonizing Profit and Planet: A Geo-Informed Machine-Learning for Environmental Accounting

^{Duration: February 2024 – January 2027}
The primary goal is to explore the role of environmental accounting within key global industries, particularly the European steel and Australian mining sectors, using modern technologies like Machine Learning (ML) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Distributed AI for enhanced security in satellite-aided wireless navigation (RESILIENT)

^{Duration: January 2024 – December 2026}
RESILIENT will address the challenges of ensuring cyber-security and privacy for civilian location-based applications, offering increased robustness and resilience of satellite-based positioning signals to various types of intentional and non-intentional interference.

HAVU

^{Duration: January 2024 – June 2026}
The aim of the project is to support the development of nature tourism, taking into account accessibility and the principles of sustainable tourism, by creating partnerships between forest owners and tourism and welfare service companies in South Ostrobothnia. The project promotes the use of private forests and natural sites in economic activities by making use of spatial data and other data.

Boosting Space Business – the Aurora Region Space
Economy Ecosystem

^{Duration: October 2023 – September 2026}
AuroraSpace -project aims to promote space business in the northern Finland, Sweden and Norway by developing a space innovation ecosystem. The project is partially financed by the EU Interreg Aurora program.

Ostrobothnian Regional space Business and InnovaTion (ORBIT)

^{Duration: May 2023 – April 2025}
In the ORBIT project, a new regional operating model for developing and commercializing new innovations related to the new space economy will be created for Ostrobothnia.

KvarkenData

^{Duration: April 2023 – March 2025}
The two-year KvarkenData project of the University of Vaasa, financed by the Regional Council of Ostrobothnia, explores the research and business possibilities of environmental data from Kvarken area.

COMPLETED PROJECTS

Spacecasting

^{Duration: October 2022 – March 2023}
The Spacecasting project aims to find new ways of using satellite data to forecast the economy. The University of Vaasa and the Finnish Meteorological Institute work together with several companies in order to find new targets of application for satellite data.

Use of Position Data in Industry (TOSIPAIKKA)

^{Duration: December 2021 – August 2023}
The overall goal of the project is to develop methods for transmitting and analyzing the position data collected from devices and machines.

KvarkenSpaceEco

^{Duration: September 2019 – October 2022}
The Kvarken Space Eco project will implement a long-lasting regional economic development structure for space-based business and innovation, i.e. a Kvarken Space Center.

Logistics and resource management of the future via ubiquitous precision positioning methods (TULEVA)

^{Duration: September 2020 – August 2022}
The project will produce open source software and solutions for smart logistics, widen the future competence within smart logistics in the regions of Ostrobothnia and Southern Ostrobothnia, accelerate the application and service development on the basis of novel technology solutions and assist the development of projects within industrial internet and the related international funding application activities from international programs.

INdoor navigation from CUBesAt TEchnology (INCUBATE)

^{Duration: January 2021 – August 2024}
The project will research the application of small satellite technology for precise positioning of indoor spaces and navigation. A new small satellite will also be designed in the project.

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