China–Finland Challenge: Global Digital Solutions for Sustainable Cities
Download the presentations from the awards webinar here! Winners: No winners selected. Honorary mention: No winners selected.The Winners
Challenge 1: Digital solutions to redesign an old industrial area into a sustainable landmark and community
Challenge 2: Digital solutions to develop an online-merge-offline education platform on sustainable development
Challenge 3: Digital solutions to ease the everyday lives of senior citizens and help them live at home longer
Challenge 4: How to reduce energy consumption on single family houses by using affordable digital solution or services?
Challenge overview
Creating cities that are built and maintained in an energy-efficient and carbon-neutral manner with smart digital urban technology is a global endeavour. To find new and innovative digital solutions for sustainable city development, Chinese, Finnish and Nordic partner organisations Helsinki Partners and SNPA (Sino-Nordic Promotion Association for Green Sustainable Development) announce a call of challenges that connects the two countries and across the Nordic region, open for wide participation from Nordics to the whole globe. We invite all global digital solution providers to offer their solutions to the challenges.
The solutions shall address topics from senior citizen solutions to designing and visualising the built environment, industrial parks renovation and digital tools for education on sustainable development, as well as opportunities under China’s Carbon Neutral Piloting Projects (named ‘SNPARK initiative’).
Click here to download a presentation containing more information about the challenges and organisers.
Organisers
The organisers are actors working in smart and sustainable city development and trade promotion. They will help not only the winners but also other applicants find opportunities in China and Finland. If no suitable applications are received, the organisers shall select the winner in a manner they deem fitting.
Co-organisers
SNPA
Helsinki Partners
Support
Center for International Economic and Technological Cooperation, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT-CIETC)
China-EU Carbon Neutrality Cooperation Office (CECCO)
Special Partners
Finnish Association of Civil Engineers RIL
Omakotiliitto (Finnish Home Owners’ Association)
The Challenges
Application period: 2–22 December 2021
The series contains four challenges in total: two from China and two from Finland. Read the detailed descriptions and criteria for each challenge below. Click here to download a presentation containing more information about the challenges and organisers.
Challenge 1: Digital solutions to redesign an old industrial area into a sustainable landmark and community
An old industrial area in China’s megacity (such as Beijing) needs to be redesigned to visualize low-carbon production and sustainable living style through digital solutions. After renovation, it will set an example and be promoted for other urban renewal projects, under China’s carbon neutral pilot projects (named SNPARK Initiative).
What are your digital solutions that could help transform such a traditional industrial area – with factory buildings and open space – into a new landmark and community for sustainable urban development?
Please provide a Word document within 2000 words to explain how the solution addresses the challenge in the application form attachments.
For questions about the technical details, contact Chan WANG ibh@snpa-gsd.com.
Download the application scenario introduction and FAQ
Challenge 2: Digital solutions to develop an online-merge-offline education platform on sustainable development
Education bases like zoos and science museums in China’s megacities (such as cities in the Greater Bay Area) look for digital solutions to build an online-merge-offline (OMO) education platform to provide young people with knowledge and skills education on sustainable development. The platform will set an example for youth learning platform development in the cities under China’s carbon neutral pilot projects.
What are your digital solutions that could help transform traditional education bases (e.g. zoos or science museums) into an OMO education platform for sustainable development?
Please provide a Word document within 2000 words to explain how the solution addresses the challenge in the application form attachments.
For questions about the technical details, contact Chan WANG ibh@snpa-gsd.com.
Download the application scenario introduction and FAQ
Challenge 3: Digital solutions to ease the everyday lives of senior citizens and help them live at home longer
Aging is a global challenge. Most seniors want to live at their beloved family homes as long as possible, but with a declining ability to function, daily chores become difficult. Digital tools can be the solution to senior citizens, more and more of whom are using smart phones and an internet connection daily. What is your digital solution that could ease the everyday lives of senior citizens and help them live home longer?
For questions about the technical details, contact Janne Tähtikunnas janne.tahtikunnas@ril.fi.
Challenge 4: How to reduce energy consumption on single family houses by using affordable digital solution or services?
There are a lot of different energy consumption-related systems, equipment and data available in single family houses. The challenge is that the equipment and data are not connected to each other. Introduce a digital solution, which could help to reduce energy consumption e.g. by connecting the available data and equipment?
Equipment and data available regarding energy consumption:
- Heating specification
- HVAC specification
- Energy price
- Hourly measured consumption
For questions about the technical details, contact Janne Tähtikunnas janne.tahtikunnas@ril.fi.
Benefits to the challenge winners include
- an opportunity to pitch their solution at a Winner Announcement webinar (January 2022).
- a piloting opportunity in participating China’s carbon neutral pilot projects (SNPARK initiative), to demonstrate solution application in Chinese green market, with visibility to a global audience;
- an invitation to showcase smart solutions to Chinese green markets at networking and promotion events hosted by SNPA and its partners, incl. MIIT-CIETC and CECCO.
- access to follow-up business facilitation services provided by SNPA and Helsinki Partners, for more efficient connection to local green markets.
- a piloting opportunity in Helsinki, Finland and visibility to a global audience.
An optimal digital solution is
- scalable to respond to global use.
- a full or partial solution to the challenge.
- tested for functionality and shows references.
Important dates:
- Application period: 2–22 December 2021
- Informing winners of the decision: 14 January 2022
- Official announcement webinar of the winners: 20 January 2022 at 9.00 EET and 15.00 CST
Apply
Applications open 2 December at 9.00 EET / 15 CST.
Applications close 22 December at 22 EET (23 December at 4 CST).
Launch events
Thank you for participating in the launch events!
Onsite at Helsinki Partners Lounge
Thursday 2 December, 9:00–10:00 EET, 15:00–16:00 CST, 7:00–8:00 GMT
Thank you for joining the event at the Helsinki Partners Lounge in Messukeskus during Slush!
Webinar via Zoom
Friday 3 December, 9:00–10:00 EET, 15:00–16:00 CST, 7:00–8:00 GMT
Thank you for joining the webinar!
Awards event
Thank you for participating in the awards event on 20 January, 2022!
Get in touch
For general inquiries, contact Irma Ylikangas.
For inquiries on the Chinese challenges, contact Chan WANG.
For inquiries on the Finnish challenges, contact Janne Tähtikunnas.
Speakers of Designing Better Life – Helsinki Meets Japan
『ヘルスケアの向上を実現する革新』 Innovating for Better Healthcare
乗次 啓 Kei Noritsugu
Fujitsu Japan Limited
マネージャーManager
2001年に富士通入社以来、一貫してグローバルビジネスを担当。流通、金融、ヘルスケアと様々な業種でアカウント営業から新ビジネスの企画、立上げを実施。またニューヨーク、ロンドンへの海外駐在も経験。
現在、所属しているヘルスケアソリューション開発本部では日本からのソリューション提供を通じてフィンランドでのヘルスケアビジネスの開拓を推進中。
Kei Noritsugu is manager at Digital Healthcare Solutions Division, Healthcare Solutions Development Units. He has been working for Fujitsu since 2001. Noritsugu has several experience of promoting global business in various industries such as Retail, Finance and Healthcare. He has also been on an overseas assignment in New York and London. Kei Noritsugu has bachelor degree from Industrial Chemistry, Shibaura Institute of Technology.
Sanna Venetvaara
Takeda
ゼネラルマネージャー General Manager
Sanna Venetvaara works as a General Manager at Takeda Finland. She has almost 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. During her 10 years at Takeda, she has worked in several director roles across countries from leading commercial and cross functional teams to leading Nordic Innovation Hub having global networks. She has a Master’s degree both in biochemistry and in economics.
Aarno Palotie
FinnGen
教授、研究部長 Professor, Research Director
Dr. Aarno Palotie is Research Director of the Human Genomics program at Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki and also a faculty member at the Center for Human Genome Research at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He is Scientific Director of the large FinnGen project that combines the genome and national health record data from 500 000 Finnish participants.
Kari Kohtamäki
VTT
キーアカウントマネージャー Key Account Manager
Kari Kohtamäki leads commercial operations in health technologies at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. This role involves assessing future trends and bridging the gap between scientific research and business needs, as well as creating international partnership networks for VTT.
Dr. Minna Elomaa-Krapu
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
イノベーション部長 Innovation Director
Minna Elomaa-Krapu has a master’s degree in health sciences and a doctorate from the University of Tampere, majoring in nursing science. Elomaa-Krapu is the director of innovation in the Customer-Oriented Wellbeing and Health Services innovation hub. She is responsible for RDI projects and multidisciplinary learning and development environments such as wellbeing village (multiprofessional services for citizens and communities) and Metropolia Proof Health (preclinical research and test environment).
Ben Hasselblatt
VideoVisit
グローバルセールス部長 Head of Global Sales
Ben Hasselblatt joined VideoVisit September 1st 2021 as head of global sales. Prior to joining VideoVisit Ben has held several sales leadership positions in various Finnish tech and software companies focusing primarily on international sales.
Joel Noutere
FinnAdvance
カスタマーサービスマネージャー Customer Success Manager
Joel has a background in physics and molecular biology and before joining Finnadvance he was a startup founder and CEO of a software startup specialized in life science laboratory software tools. Now Joel is part of the Finnadvance team as the Customer Success Manager.
Eetu Koski
Evondos
CEO
Evondos CEO Eetu Koski has ~25 years HealthTech experience in general and commercial management positions. 15 years full P&L responsibility. International experience in hospital tender business in 35 markets, including Asian markets. Vast therapy area exposure including medical robotics.
『AIを利用した教育の再考』 Rethinking Education with AI
渡邊あや Aya Watanabe
津田塾大学学芸学部国際関係学科・准教授 Associate Professor
Tsuda University, College of Liberal Arts, Department of International and Cultural Studies
専門は比較国際教育学（フィンランドと日本の教育制度や教育政策）。フィンランドのタンペレ大学に、2001-2002年、2012-2013年に客員研究員として滞在。
Aya WATANABE specializes in comparative and international education. She focuses her research and professional interest on a comparative study of education system and policy between Finland and Japan. She had studied in the University of Tampere as a visiting researcher (2001-2002 and 2012-2013).
Johanna Hemminki
Curious Technologies
創業者、Founder, CEO
Ms. Johanna Hemminki is a leading specialist in robot-based language learning in Europe. Her passion is to develop new ways to learn languages and help people to communicate better
with the help of robots and AI. She is a CEO and founder of Elias Robot, an award-winning
company specialized in robotic solutions for education. Prior to founding Elias Robot, Ms. Hemminki has spent over 15 years developing educational institutions, training teachers in education technology and teaching Finnish language. She has a Master’s degree from University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Anu Passi-Rauste
HeadAI
グロース部門長 Head of Growth
Anu Passi-Rauste has 20 years’ experience in edtech business with current focus on building an intelligent and sustainable future ecosystem for skills and work.
Mariam Shodeinde
Claned
CGO（チーフ・グロース・オフィサー）Chief Growth Officer
Mariam Shodeinde works for making the vast potential of online learning a reality – Ensuring that Claned partners and customers have the tools, knowledge and online learning platform that delivers a highly engaging and highly effective learning experience.
At Claned she supports the team to deliver data-driven performance improvements in Sales, Marketing and Customer Success. In addition she contributes to developing multi-stakeholder programs and projects to transform education systems. The programs have included implementing technology to scale up access and quality in teacher in-service education in Kenya, vocational skills development for youths in Nigeria and distance learning in Zambia and Uganda.
Sirkku Tahvanainen
Code School of Finland
教育部長、AI教育専門家 Head of Education and AI Education Specialist
Sirkku is an AI education specialist and author. She develops teaching materials and teacher training, and also teaches kids in coding clubs because that is what she enjoys the most. Her background in philosophy has led her to love all that is clear and distinct, such as code and algorithms.
ヘルシンキ市 City of Helsinki
Juhana Vartiainen
ヘルシンキ市長 Mayor of Helsinki
Juhana Vartiainen (born in 1958) is the current Mayor of Helsinki and a Finnish politician. He was a member of the Finnish Parliament in 2015-2021. After winning the local election in Helsinki, Mr. Vartiainen became the Mayor of the capital on 2 August 2021. With a PhD in economics, Mr. Vartiainen has worked in several economic research institutes in Finland and Sweden both as a director and a researcher up to his election to the parliament in 2015. In addition to his hometown Helsinki, he has lived in Paris, London and Stockholm. Mr. Vartiainen represents the National Coalition Party.
Marja-Leena Rinkineva
City of Helsinki
ヘルシンキ市経済開発部長 Director of Economic Development
Marja-Leena Rinkineva, Director of Economic Development and the Member of the Executive Board of the City of Helsinki, is responsible economic and innovation policy, entrepreneurship, immigration and employment affairs for the City.
As a Master of Laws and an MBA graduate, Mrs Rinkineva has extensive experience economic development, industry and commerce. Mrs Rinkineva has worked in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment and in the Ministry of Justice.
Mrs Rinkineva also has a strong knowledge in Corporate Governance working in various boards of companies. Currently, she is the Chairman / Member of the Board in several organizations related to economic development in the Helsinki region.
Mrs Rinkineva’s motivators are sustainability, shared innovation, openness and trust. She is happiest at the seashore with the family.
Sonja Malin
Helsinki Partners
シニア・ビジネスアドバイザー Senior Business Advisor
Miikka Neuvonen
NewCo Helsinki
ビジネスアドバイザー Business Advisor
Maria Lavonen
Helsinki Partners
シニア･ビジネスアドバイザー Senior Business Advisor
Maria Lavonen is Senior Business Advisor in Helsinki Partners and she helps health tech and life science companies and investors to successfully start new projects and investments in Helsinki Metropolitan.
Maria Lavonen has +25 years’ experience on strategy and business development in international high technology companies in medical technology, ICT and energy sector. Maria Lavonen holds an MSc degree in Engineering Physics and Business Strategy and International Marketing from Helsinki University of Technology, predecessor of Aalto University.
フィンランド大使館、東京 Embassy of Finland, Tokyo
His Excellency Mr. Pekka Orpana, Ambassador of Finland to Japan
駐日フィンランド大使 ペッカ・オルパナ閣下
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Designing Better Life – Helsinki Meets Japan
[日本語] Helsinki and Japan continue Designing Better Life together! Quality healthcare and education lie at the heart of a happy life. The effects of these fields on a person are immediate – potentially life-changing – so they deserve to be designed with care. Health and learning are things greatly appreciated by both Japan and Finland. The two countries also excel at ICT and R&D, two skills needed for finding modern solutions. For these reasons, the City of Helsinki invites Japanese companies and investors to join the city’s flourishing ecosystems and begin the exploration of new life-improving solutions together. Through these events, the City is presenting Finnish ecosystems, innovative solutions perfect for Japanese markets, and valuable business opportunities in Helsinki to Japanese companies. Join to learn the latest information, the benefits of doing business in Finland, and inspiring stories from various companies. Many Japanese companies and investors have already found trusted partners and valuable business in Helsinki – will you be joining them soon?
These events are fully bilingual, accessible in both English and Japanese.
The events are part of the Helsinki Designing Better Life series of events organised by the City of Helsinki and Helsinki Partners in 2021. The previously held webinars, organized with our partner Fukuoka Directive Council, focusing on Smart City and Smart Energy respectively, were successes and opened several valuable relationships between Helsinki and Fukuoka.
Innovating for Better Healthcare
7 December, 2021
Online: 15.00–16.30 (Japanese time), 8.00-9.30 EET
Metsä Pavilion: 14:00–16.00 (Japanese time)
The Helsinki Metropolitan area is an excellent location for developing new, innovative health tech solutions. Out of about 400 health-related startups in Finland – one of the largest startup ecosystems in the world –, one hundred are located in Helsinki Metropolitan.
A key feature of the local ecosystem is collaboration: universities, research institutions and companies consistently work together in pursuit of exciting new innovation. Moreover, the City of Helsinki offers opportunities for companies to test their health and well-being innovations in real-life environments, together with end-users and city employees.
The Finnish economy is knowledge-based: it lives and breathes research and innovation. Finland is an exceptional research goldmine thanks to the unique Finnish genetic heritage and the electronic health data records. Moreover, Finland has a wealth of experienced talent for creating new health tech solutions, and a variety of advisors, subcontractors and manufacturers to build complete systems and get regulatory approval.
Program
Opening remarks
Juhana Vartiainen, Mayor of Helsinki
Ambassador’s Remarks
His Excellency Mr. Pekka Orpana, Ambassador of Finland to Japan (Special programme at Metsä Pavilion)
Helsinki Health Innovation Ecosystem
Helsinki Partners – Maria Lavonen, Senior Business Advisor
Fujitsu activities, collaboration and opportunities in the Helsinki Health Ecosystem
Fujitsu Japan Limited – Kei Noritsugu, Manager, Healthcare Solutions Development Unit
Helsinki Health Ecosystem Opportunities, Vision of Takeda
Takeda – Sanna Venetvaara, General Manager
FinnGen research project on genomic data and how to participate in practice
FinnGen – Dr. Aarno Palotie, Professor, Research Director
VTT as an innovation partner in Smart Health
VTT – Kari Kohtamäki, Key Account Manager
Metropolia Proof Health – preclinical research and test infrastructure for companies
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences – Dr. Minna Elomaa-Krapu, Innovation Director
Virtual Home Care
VideoVisit – Ben Hasselblatt, Head of Global Sales
Better tools for pharmaceutical development
FinnAdvance – Joel Noutere, CCO
Independent life at home with medicine dispensing robots – Nordic experience
Evondos – Eetu Koski, CEO
Closing words
Marja-Leena Rinkineva, Director of Economic Development, City of Helsinki
Rethinking Education with AI
7 December, 2021
Online: 17.00–18.30 (Japanese time), 10.00-11.30 EET
Metsä Pavilion: 17.00–19.00 (Japanese time)
Finland has built a reputation as an education powerhouse and has a proven track-record as the home of world-class education. Our educational system is based on high-quality comprehensive education that is inclusive and universal.
To improve education and learning worldwide, we are keen to share our know-how. In this inspiring event, we will present some of our leading, research-based education technology companies utilizing AI in their solutions.
Our philosophy is simple: the nature of a child is to want to know new things, to be inquisitive, curious about the world around them, and to experiment with what they learn. Highly competent, dedicated and motivated teachers nurture natural curiosity and place it at the heart of education planning and curricula. The teachers are experts both in their subject areas and pedagogy, the art of teaching.
Finland is also adapting innovative new technologies in teaching and learning. Personalization of education and the changing roles of teachers and learners require smart and research-based solutions to be used in schools.
We believe this leads to an inspiring, yet efficient and productive, learning environment where students have real independence, an active role in what and how they learn, and genuinely hold a key to unlocking their own potential.
Program
Opening remarks
Juhana Vartiainen, Mayor of Helsinki
Ambassador’s Remarks
His Excellency Mr. Pekka Orpana, Ambassador of Finland to Japan (Special programme at Metsä Pavilion)
Education in Finland as seen from Japan
Aya Watanabe, Associate Professor, Tsuda University, College of Liberal Arts, Department of International and Cultural Studies
Empowering language learning with robots
Curious Technologies – Johanna Hemminki, Founder and CEO
Future-proofing Education with Sustainable AI: Case Universities of Applied Sciences
HeadAI – Anu Passi-Rauste, Head of Growth
Where digital learning goes wrong and how to change it
Claned – Mariam Shodeinde, Chief Growth Officer
Making future AI makers
Code School Finland – Sirkku Tahvanainen, Head of Education and AI Education Specialist
Helsinki EdTech Ecosystem
Sonja Malin, Senior Business Advisor, Helsinki Partners & Miikka Neuvonen, Business Advisor, NewCo Helsinki
Closing words
Marja-Leena Rinkineva, Director of Economic Development, City of Helsinki
Organizers
Co-Organizers
Partners
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Designing Better Life – ヘルシンキと日本を結んで
Designing Better Life – ヘルシンキと日本を結んで
2021年12月7日
バーチャルイベント + 東京のメッツァ・パビリオン
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質の高いヘルスケアと教育は幸せな生活の中心にあるものです。これらの分野が人々にもたらす影響は直接的で、人生を変えてしまうことすらあります。それゆえ慎重に考案する必要があります。
健康と学習は日本とフィンランド両国において高く評価されているものです。両国はまた、最新のソリューションに必要なICTとR&Dにおいても優れた国です。そのような背景から、ヘルシンキ市は日本の企業と投資家の皆様に活気ある当市のエコシステムにご参加いただき、生活改善の新しいソリューションを共に探っていきたいと願っています。
これらのイベントで、ヘルシンキ市は、フィンランドのエコシステム、日本市場に最適な革新的ソリューション、ヘルシンキにおける日本企業の価値ある市場機会についてお伝えします。このイベントでは、最新情報、フィンランドでビジネスを行う利点、様々な企業の興味深いプレゼンテーションなどがお聞きいただけます。多くの日本企業と投資家の皆様が、すでにヘルシンキで信頼できるパートナーを見つけ、価値のあるビジネスを始めています。
『ヘルスケアの向上を実現する革新』
2021年12月7日
バーチャルイベント 15:00～16:30 (日本時間)、8:00～9:30 EET
メッツァ・パビリオン 14:00～16:00 (日本時間)
ヘルシンキ首都圏地域は新しく革新的なヘルステックソリューションを開発するのに最高の場所です。世界最大のエコシステムの一つ、フィンランドにある約400社のヘルス関連のスタートアップのうち約100社がヘルシンキ首都圏地域にあります。
地域のエコシステムでは協力が重要です。大学、研究機関、企業が刺激的な革新を求めて常に協力していかなければなりません。ヘルシンキ市では、企業がヘルスとウェルビーイングの技術革新をエンドユーザーや市の職員とともに実際に試験する機会も提供しています。
フィンランドの経済は知識集約型経済で、研究と革新に力を入れています。独特な遺伝的遺産と電子ヘルスデータを持つフィンランドは比類を見ない研究の宝庫です。さらに、ヘルステックの新しいソリューションを生み出す経験豊富な人材、完全体系を築き当局の承認を得るために必要な様々な分野のアドバイザー、下請け業者、製造業者も豊富です。
プログラム
開会のご挨拶
ヘルシンキ市長 Juhana Vartiainen 氏
大使のご挨拶
駐日フィンランド大使 ペッカ・オルパナ閣下（メッツァ・パビリオンでのスペシャルプログラム）
ヘルシンキ ヘルスイノベーション エコシステム
Helsinki Partners
シニア･ビジネスアドバイザー Maria Lavonen 氏
ヘルシンキ市のヘルスケアエコシステムにおける富士通の取り組みについて
富士通Japan株式会社
ヘルスケアソリューション開発本部
マネージャー 乗次 啓 氏
ヘルシンキ ヘルス エコシステム
Takeda
ゼネラルマネージャー Sanna Venetvaara 氏
FinnGen ゲノムデータ研究プロジェクトとプロジェクトへの参加方法について
FinnGen
教授、研究部長 Aarno Palotie 氏
スマートヘルスのイノベーションパートナーとしてのVTT
VTT
キーアカウントマネージャー Kari Kohtamäki 氏
Metropolia Proof Health（メトロポリア・プルーフ・ヘルス） – 前臨床研究と企業向け試験基盤
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
イノベーション部長 Minna Elomaa-Krapu 氏
バーチャル・ホーム・ケア
VideoVisit
グローバルセールス部長 Ben Hasselblatt 氏
医薬開発のより優れたツール
FinnAdvance
CCO Joel Noutere 氏
投薬ロボットを利用し自宅で自立した生活を – 北欧の事例
Evondos
CEO Eetu Koski 氏
閉会のご挨拶
ヘルシンキ市 経済開発部長 Marja-Leena Rinkineva 氏
『AIを利用した教育の再考』
2021年12月7日
バーチャルイベント 17:00～18:30 (日本時間)、10:00～11:30 EET
メッツァ・パビリオン 17:00～19:00 (日本時間)
フィンランドは教育大国としての地位を築いてきました。世界レベルの教育の本場としての実績は実証済みです。フィンランドの教育制度は、統合的で普遍的、質が高く包括的な教育を基盤としています。
世界中の教育と学びを向上させるため、私たちはノウハウを共有したいと切望しています。この興味深いイベントでは、フィンランドを代表するAIをソリューションとして利用している研究重視の教育テクノロジー企業をご紹介します。
私たちの哲学はシンプルです。子供たちは新しいことを知りたがっています。知識欲があり、彼らを取り巻く世界に好奇心を持ち、学んだことを試してみたいと思っています。大変有能で熱心な意欲ある教師達が自然な好奇心を育み、それを教育計画やカリキュラムの中心に置いています。教師達は科目と教授法の達人です。
フィンランドは教育と学習においても革新的な新しい技術を取り入れています。教育のカスタマイズと教師の役割の変化には、学校で利用するスマートで研究重視のソリューションが必要です。
そのようなソリューションにより、インスピレーションを与えながらも効率的で生産的な学習環境を提供し、生徒達が学習内容と学習方法において真の意味で独立して積極的な役割を果たし、自分自身の可能性を解き放つ鍵を持つことができると確信しています。
プログラム
開会のご挨拶
ヘルシンキ市長 Juhana Vartiainen 氏
大使のご挨拶
駐日フィンランド大使 ペッカ・オルパナ閣下（メッツァ・パビリオンでのスペシャルプログラム）
フィンランドの教育－日本からの視座－
津田塾大学 学芸学部国際関係学科
准教授 渡邊 あや 氏
ロボットを利用した言語学習の促進
Curious Technologies
創業者、CEO Johanna Hemminki 氏
サステナブルなAIを利用したフューチャー・プルーフな教育：応用科学大学の事例
HeadAI
グロース部門長 Anu Passi-Rauste 氏
デジタルラーニングが失敗する理由と対策
Claned
CGO（チーフ・グロース・オフィサー）Mariam Shodeinde 氏
将来のAIメーカーを作り出す
Code School Finland
教育部長、AI教育専門家 Sirkku Tahvanainen 氏
ヘルシンキ エドテック エコシステム
Helsinki Partners シニア・ビジネスアドバイザー Sonja Malin 氏
NewCo Helsinki ビジネスアドバイザー Miikka Neuvonen 氏
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ヘルシンキ市 経済開発部長 Marja-Leena Rinkineva 氏
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Artificial intelligence business opportunities in Helsinki
Why look at AI offering in Helsinki?
Investors:
- High-quality startup deal flow
- Global expansion of portfolio companies
Corporations:
- Best possible R&D partners and ecosystems
- University & research center collaboration
- Product development opportunities
- Unique piloting platforms
- Funding
High-growth startups:
- Right kind of talent
- Pilot customers
- Product development opportunities
- Global expansion
- Funding
Finland offers world-class capabilities in human-centric and ethical AI:
- Top-level education and research
- Open data
- Skilled talent pool
- Tech-savvy society
- Dynamic AI startups
- Real-world applications of AI by companies
- National AI program
All of these together create an exceptionally vibrant and attractive innovation environment to develop new solutions for the global market leveraging the AI expertise from Finland. Helsinki has what it takes to meet your needs in the AI space – and we’re here to help you find what you are looking for!
Within artificial intelligence, we’re especially focused on
Finland is a superpower in leveraging the possibilities provided by artificial intelligence
Finland’s high level of education and decades of research in machine learning and signal processing have formed a solid basis for the Finnish AI know-how and development.
- Finland initiated a national AI strategy among the first countries in the world.
- Finland created an action plan to boost education and research in the field of AI.
- We are actively exploring how AI can create new economic growth and thereby promote wellbeing.
- Finland has accelerated AI development and utilization by
- providing access to more efficient and inexpensive computing capacity
- increasing growth of the volume of data available to artificial intelligence
- emphasizing the development of algorithms.
Finland is a powerhouse for machine learning and computer vision:
- Finland has a long tradition of research in this field.
- Strong capabilities to apply the latest machine learning solutions and algorithms to products and services, as well as combine them with other technologies.
- Machine learning has for example been combined with software robotics and hyperspectral imaging.
- The industry uses computer vision solutions widely, and several technology companies are applying AI to their computer vision and video- or image-related products.
In addition, the national AI Business program aims to make Finland the best place to research and develop artificial intelligence and platform economy. Since 2017, over 300 AI companies have received about EUR 200 million in additional funding in total.
We serve several industries with our AI expertise
Read more about some of the industries that our AI expertise serves:
Helsinki is the Northern European hub for life science and health tech innovations, business development and collaboration. Tomorrow’s energy solutions are created in Helsinki with expertise in next generation smart grids, 5G test networks, IoT and AI. The creation of new smart mobility solutions has been made easy in Helsinki and artificial intelligence plays a key role here.Healthcare
Smart energy
Smart mobility
Find circular economy business opportunities in Helsinki and lead the way towards solving global sustainability challenges. Helsinki region combines the volumes, know-how and resources to succeed in the global smart maritime market. Helsinki is one of the most functional cities in the world and outsmarts other cities with its thorough approach to ecosystem development.Circular economy
Smart maritime
Smart city
A free online course “Elements of AI” has already trained more than 2% of the entire Finnish population on the basics of artificial intelligence. It is now followed by “Ethics of AI” course, also available for everyone.
Benefits of working with our ecosystem
Finland has always been a pioneer in new technologies. The Finns form a tech-savvy society that is not afraid of new technologies and innovations. We have a culture of trying out new technologies in the early phase and learn from experimentation. Our industry has a way of working together and learning together as an ecosystem. We have an exceptionally strong innovation ecosystem in AI.
Faster time to market
We have the leading European R&D infrastructure which you can utilize to speed up your AI R&D and to support commercialization. When you want to ensure good product-market fit, Finnish companies are early adopters of new technology and can serve as valuable pilot customers and testbeds for new AI solutions.
Complete ICT value chain
We have a complete value chain for AI from R&D to software development, algorithms, hardware design and manufacturing, testing, procurement, and commercialization. In addition, the Finnish CSC offers free supercomputing capacity for research organizations.
Open data for AI
In Finland, the availability of data and its quality are excellent. Finland provides access to data for AI research and development, e.g., biobanks, open data, SITRA IHAN etc. We have a strong and active data sharing culture also in the early adopter B2B industries, e.g. DIMECC One Sea.
Reduced fear of AI
Finland has reduced fear in AI through AI literacy across citizens and employees which speeds up AI deployment in business and in society. We also focus on using AI for ethical and human purposes to augment human performance.
Technically skilled workforce
We can provide highly talented English-speaking workforce with remarkable technical skills in especially optics, machine learning, graphics, coding, mobile technologies and UX design.
Cost effective resources
Finland has the second largest number of AI experts per capita in Europe, and here you can hire top talent in AI R&D at globally competitively price and a fraction of the cost of the Silicon Valley.
Stable society
The Finnish society works, and we have a very reliable business environment here. We are also the happiest country in the world: a safe and nice place to live with clean nature and air. Helsinki is one of the smartest cities in the world.
Less risks
Your IPR is globally secure here. We are the least corrupt country in the world, and we have exceptionally strong cyber security capabilities. The Finnish society has also effectively dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic.
EU data compliance
Finland has the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance and CE certification for “made in EU” AI solutions that can be sold to the EU trade zone customer base.
Helsinki has the most globally connected local ecosystem.
Helsinki is famous for bringing together the whole ecosystem in the AI development projects: private and public sector, academia, applied R&D organisations, and citizens. It’s a great place to pilot and test new AI innovations that lead to globally scalable business solutions.
Helsinki is supercharged with AI startups and a vital R&D ecosystem
Startups have a major role in the Finnish AI landscape. There are over 400 AI startups in Finland and the top 30 companies ranked by the Finland’s Artificial Intelligence Accelerator (FAIA) are doubling their growth each year.
The number of people working at AI startups in Finland increases by approximately 33% each year. Startup Genome has identified the Helsinki area as one of the most significant AI ecosystems in Europe, along with London and Berlin.
In Helsinki, AI startups are able to quickly test new technology in real-world environments – with strong support from the public sector and society in general.
Helsinki is on top of global rankings
#1 in availability of scientists and engineers
Global Competitiveness Index
#2 in integration of digital technology
European Commission, Desi 2018
#3 Digital Economy and Society Index
European Commission’s Digital Economy and Society Index 2018
