Col­lab­o­ra­tion

Oulu Region R&I stake­hold­ers (high­er edu­ca­tion insti­tu­tions, com­pa­nies, pub­lic author­i­ties and research organ­i­sa­tions) are active par­tic­i­pants and con­trib­u­tors in Euro­pean pro­grammes and ini­tia­tives. The stake­hold­ers from North­ern Ostro­both­nia (Oulu region) have an excel­lent track record and have been involved in some 176 Hori­zon 2020 projects and received 87 mil­lion euros of EU fund­ing.

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In addi­tion, we par­tic­i­pate in sev­er­al ecosys­tems and hubs at EU, nation­al and region­al lev­el. The region has 3 Euro­pean Dig­i­tal Inno­va­tion Hubs (EDIH), Robo­coast, LIH, and Health Hub Fin­land, as well as 6 nation­al Dig­i­tal Inno­va­tion Hubs (DIH) which aim to ensure that SMEs will ben­e­fit from advanced dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies (includ­ing Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence, High Per­for­mance Com­put­ing, Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty, and Dig­i­tal skills). Oulu region par­tic­i­pates in nine the­mat­ic Smart Spe­cial­iza­tion (S3) Part­ner­ships under Indus­tri­al mod­ern­iza­tion, Agri-Food, and Ener­gy. The region is lead­ing the Wire­less ICT part­ner­ship which aims to help to devel­op and imple­ment a com­mon strat­e­gy enabling invest­ments in the field of fast and ener­gy- and resource-effi­cient wire­less ICT.

Oulu Inno­va­tion Alliance (OIA)

Oulu Inno­va­tion Alliance is a strate­gic coali­tion of organ­i­sa­tions and an active round­table of lead­ers who aim to pro­mote inno­va­tions and sus­tain­able growth both local­ly and glob­al­ly.

Whether you are look­ing to invest in Oulu’s tal­ent or have an inno­va­tion to get out to the world, Oulu Inno­va­tion Alliance is here to help you achieve your goals.

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Print­o­cent

In Print­o­Cent, com­pa­nies get easy access to new busi­ness devel­op­ment and pilot man­u­fac­tur­ing resources for the intro­duc­tion of print­ed intel­li­gence com­po­nents, sys­tems and prod­ucts, from pilot pro­duc­tion to ear­ly mar­ket tri­als. Appli­ca­tion focus areas range from rapid dis­pos­able diag­nos­tics, smart flex­i­ble light­ing and wear­ables to Inter­net-of-Things with sen­sors and ener­gy har­vest­ing. Print­o­Cent has wide glob­al reach with its inter­na­tion­al mem­ber com­pa­nies and part­ners. In Oulu region more than 300 experts are avail­able in research and in indus­try.

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NUVE-LAB

NUVE-LAB pro­vides research, devel­op­ment, and test­ing capa­bil­i­ties from pas­sage cars to heavy util­i­ty vehi­cles. It is designed to serve ener­gy effi­cient and autonomous vehi­cle research and devel­op­ment. The lab con­tains a plat­form for mod­el­ling actu­al envi­ron­ments in vir­tu­al real­i­ty. Our mod­ern lab­o­ra­to­ry helps devel­op vehi­cles that meet the future mar­ket require­ments.

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UAM Oulu

Urban Air Mobil­i­ty Oulu (UAM Oulu) is the strate­gic ini­tia­tive aim­ing at con­tribut­ing to the devel­op­ment of the Unmanned Air­craft Sys­tem (UAS) domain.

The ulti­mate objec­tive of UAM Oulu is to achieve city-wide cov­er­age as a UAM liv­ing lab pro­vid­ing sin­gle entry and one-stop ser­vice point for any mat­ters asso­ci­at­ed with busi­ness activ­i­ties with­in the City of Oulu.

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6G Flag­ship

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu is the home of the world’s first large and still glob­al­ly lead­ing 6G RDI pro­gram, 6G Flag­ship. Ecosys­tem has 500+ acad­e­mia part­ners from 71 coun­tries and 400+ indus­tri­al part­ners from 31 coun­tries.

The over­ar­ch­ing goals of 6G Flag­ship are to sup­port indus­try in final­iza­tion of 5G, devel­op the fun­da­men­tal tech­nol­o­gy need­ed to enable 6G and speed up dig­i­tal­iza­tion in soci­ety.

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Allied ICT Fin­land

Allied ICT Fin­land (AIF) is the largest Nordic ICT-net­work of uni­ver­si­ties, dig­i­tal inno­va­tion hubs and com­pa­ny ecosys­tems turns high qual­i­ty research into mar­ket appli­ca­tions. We are look­ing for coop­er­a­tion with research insti­tu­tions and com­pa­nies in Fin­land and abroad, as well as EU-lev­el col­lab­o­ra­tion and part­ner­ships.

AIF is a net­work which was found by Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu, Oulu Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences and Business­Oulu. Today, led by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu, it cov­ers 20 uni­ver­si­ties and research organ­i­sa­tions, 12 region­al busi­ness devel­op­ment organ­i­sa­tions and 51 shared R&D envi­ron­ments.

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Oulu — Euro­pean Cap­i­tal of Cul­ture 2026

Oulu is the Euro­pean Cap­i­tal of Cul­ture for the year 2026. The Cap­i­tal of Cul­ture year will bring inter­na­tion­al vis­i­bil­i­ty to both North­ern and the whole of Finland’s cul­ture.

The main theme, Cul­tur­al Cli­mate Change means com­bin­ing and con­nect­ing dif­fer­ent, even sur­pris­ing, things togeth­er. Through the means of cul­ture and art, peo­ple are brought togeth­er, inter­ac­tion as well as tech­nol­o­gy are improved, and art and nature are con­nect­ed in unfore­seen ways.

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TRINITY

The main objec­tive of TRINITY is to cre­ate a net­work of mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary and syn­er­gis­tic local dig­i­tal inno­va­tion hubs (DIHs) com­posed of research cen­ters, com­pa­nies, and uni­ver­si­ty groups that cov­er a wide range of top­ics that can con­tribute to agile pro­duc­tion: advanced robot­ics as the dri­ving force and dig­i­tal tools, data pri­va­cy and cyber secu­ri­ty tech­nolo­gies to sup­port the intro­duc­tion of advanced robot­ic sys­tems in the pro­duc­tion process­es.

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Dig­i­tal Inno­va­tion Hub net­works of Oulu region

Oulu region stake­hold­ers par­tic­i­pate in the fol­low­ing dig­i­tal inno­va­tion hubs and net­works of hubs.

Rur­al RDIH

The Rur­al Indus­try Dig­i­tal Inno­va­tion Hub is a strong nation­al devel­op­ment and sup­port cen­ter, Boost­ing dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion in sparse­ly pop­u­lat­ed areas.

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Arc­tic Drone Labs DIH

Arc­tic Drone Labs is an Unmanned Air­craft Sys­tem Inno­va­tion ecosys­tem based in Fin­land and accred­it­ed Dig­i­tal Inno­va­tion Hub (DIH) and ATI Cen­ter (Advanced Tech­nolo­gies for Indus­try) by the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion. We col­lect and nour­ish exper­tise, tools and inno­va­tions to boost drone and UAS relat­ed busi­ness, research and edu­ca­tion.

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OuluHealth

OuluHealth is one of the lead­ing dig­i­tal health inno­va­tion ecosys­tems in Europe. Mem­bers of the OuluHealth ecosys­tem rep­re­sent the whole spec­trum of health and social care, includ­ing spe­cialised med­ical care, pri­ma­ry health and social care, health and well­be­ing indus­try and com­merce, health tech­nol­o­gy research and edu­ca­tion, and cit­i­zens.

The main stake­hold­ers of OuluHealth are Oulu Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal (OYS), Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu, Oulu Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences, VTT Tech­ni­cal Research Cen­tre of Fin­land, and Business­Oulu and the Depart­ment of Health­care and Social Wel­fare of the City of Oulu. The OuluHealth ecosys­tem also encom­pass­es more than 600 health and life sci­ence com­pa­nies, at least 240 of which are high-tech com­pa­nies

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Supe­rI­oT

Supe­rI­oT and Ana­lyt­ics+ alliances are non-prof­it organ­i­sa­tions that cater world class inno­v­a­tive IoT and AI com­pa­nies and research insti­tutes to build end-to-end solu­tions. The alliances give fast access to inte­grat­ed solu­tions enabling ascen­sion in val­ue chain, improv­ing work effi­cien­cy and bring­ing new pos­si­bil­i­ties for mon­e­tiz­ing gath­ered data. With com­pre­hen­sive dig­i­tal­iza­tion, we deliv­er com­plete solu­tions from sen­sors to data ana­lyt­ics seam­less­ly and cyber secured with lat­est tech­nol­o­gy inno­va­tions, inte­grat­ed into exist­ing process­es, tools and plat­forms.

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5G Test Net­work Fin­land

5GTNF is a 5G tech­nol­o­gy and ser­vice tri­al­ing infra­struc­ture com­pris­ing of mul­ti­ple inter­con­nect­ed sites around Fin­land. The col­lab­o­rat­ing sites form a joint inno­va­tion plat­form and ecosys­tem, which aims to serve the needs of both indus­try and acad­e­mia. 5GTNF offers test­ing, tri­al­ing and pilot­ing ser­vices as well as pos­si­bil­i­ties for bilat­er­al coop­er­a­tion with­in the ecosys­tem. With vary­ing focus areas at dif­fer­ent sites, 5GTNF can cov­er a large vari­ety of ver­ti­cal indus­try use cas­es by pro­vid­ing sup­port for high data rates, low laten­cies, reli­able com­mu­ni­ca­tions and mas­sive amount of devices. 5GTNF is a joint ini­tia­tive between Finnish pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tors.

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