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The City of Jyväskylä, with a population of 135 000, is
one of Finland’s centres of growth. Recognised as a city
of high-quality education, Jyväskylä is also internation­
ally known for the architecture of Alvar Aalto.
www.jyvaskyla.fi
Jyväskylä Regional Development Company Jykes Ltd.
is a business promotion and development company
owned by the four municipalities in the Jyväskylä
Region. The aim of Jykes is to create a favourable
business environment. By offering expertise, support
and various networks for companies, Jykes creates
opportunities and conditions for profitable business
operations.
www.jykes.fi
The University of Jyväskylä is one of the largest, most
attractive and dynamic research universities in Finland,
with about 15 000 students, including international
students from some 90 countries.
www.jyu.fi
JAMK University of Applied Sciences is a multidisciplinary institution of higher education with a strong
international orientation and a student enrolment of
8 000. Our strengths are workplace-driven learning,
close cooperation with the labour market and business, as well as extensive international contacts.
www.jamk.fi
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Learner at the centre
Airport becomes a learning environment
Training to sky-high standards
Locally-sourced fish and vegetables
Gaming, music and great prizes
Making transport more efficient
City in a new light
Exporting Finland’s educational expertise
Cyber security: Controlling the risks
Jyväskylä Educational Consortium provides vocational
and general upper secondary education to young
people and adults. The consortium’s educational institutions are attended by over 22 000 students.
www.jao.fi
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FIRST WORDS
JANUARY 2015
What would be a
nightmare scenario
for a data network?
EVERY CHOICE MADE ONLINE is virtually always a risk and
potential danger situation.
The internet offers multiple benefits ranging from ease of
use to speed and flexibility, but at the same time the potential threats have to be borne in mind. All too often we consider
that there are no risks, since nothing untoward has happened.
Side by side with technical progress we need a change in our
way of thinking. In a networked world being aware of the risks
and using common sense take you a long way.
One of our tasks in Jyväskylä is to boost this awareness – to
talk about things and highlight important themes.
THE JYVÄSKYLÄ URBAN REGION was selected by Tekes – the
Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation – to take responsibility
for the national cyber security theme contained in the Innovative Cities (INKA) programme.
Cyber-INKA offers small and medium-sized enterprises a
platform for further refining their business ideas using public
funding, for client organisations a springboard for launching
cooperation with new actors and for cities and municipalities
an opportunity to make profitable use of cyber security expertise. For Finnish ICT and cyber security companies it opens a
PHOTO: TERO TAKALO-ESKOLA
IT IS DIFFICULT TO PROVIDE an exhaustive list of all the various ways in which cyber security affects every single one of us
nowadays. One wrong answer does exist, however, and that is
‘it doesn’t concern me in any way’.
The very least that enterprises must do is to go carefully
through the core of their own business and establish what the
value of that core is and, in particular, the cost of losing it.
For private persons information relating to their bank account as well as personal and family data are key values. It pays
to ask oneself, does my online activity have an impact on those
values? In other words what am I putting online: my own identity, my credit card or bank account details?
MIKA KATAIKKO
DIRECTOR, CYBER SECURITY
JYVÄSKYLÄ REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY JYKES LTD
channel via partnership to a more comprehensive product and
service offer as well as more generally providing Finnish companies with a means of boosting their competitive ability by
paying due attention to cyber security.
Jyväskylä is home to Finland’s highest quality cyber security
development environment.
JYVSECTEC (Jyväskylä Security Technology) is a cyber security research, education and development centre belonging to
JAMK University of Applied Sciences’ IT Institute.
By the same token the University of Jyväskylä offers master’s
level programmes in the fields of managing cyber security as
well as cyber security technology itself.
It should also be pointed out that in the Jyväskylä Region the
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FOCUS ON NEW CONCEPTIONS OF LEARNING, 4–7
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In Jyväskylä education organisations are actively
developing new learning environments
LEARNER
at the centre
Conceptions of new learning have changed rapidly in recent years. Traditional
classrooms have been replaced by adaptable learning spaces, and increasing
Jyväskylä Institute of Adult
Education is responsible for the
running of the local airport’s
Sky Cafe & Food caférestaurant. Simultaneously
it functions as a worklife-­
oriented learning environment
primarily for adult students.
Janika Männistö (photo top)
is training to be a waitress.
Roope Udd’s (photo below)
aim on the other hand is to
forge a career as a chef.
On the wall of the caférestaurant hangs a textile artwork, Unelmointia taivaansinessä (Dreaming in the Blue
Sky), designed and produced
by artisan students in Crafts
and Design at Jyväskylä
Institute of Adult Education.
Those involved were Marita
Airola, Ritva Pitkänen, Pirkko
Kujala and Antti Koivisto.
use is being made of ICT in teaching. It is now possible to take complete study
modules online, which makes it easier for adult learners to update their skills
and work at the same time. In turn working life offers students places for
learning by doing and genuine product development challenges.
Words by Timo Sillanpää Photos by Petteri Kivimäki
ACCORDING TO JUKKA LERKKANEN, Director of the Open University of the University of Jyväskylä, in Finland the educational revolution occurred in the 1990s, when the state relinquished
centralised control and delegated decision-making power to the municipalities. In “Old school”
times the teacher laid down what was right. Today’s view, on the other hand, emphasises the
learner’s own role in constructing knowledge.
Studies at the Open University under Lerkkanen’s care are pursued each year by approximately 14 500 students from different parts of the country and even from places beyond Finland’s borders. By means of online teaching it is possible to serve large masses in such a manner that the
learner is at the centre.
“As a learning environment the net is flexible and offers opportunities for individual choices. It
nevertheless has to be pondered carefully for what sort of teaching the net is a good solution, and
when on the other hand the power of a group is necessary,” Lerkkanen points out.
Both the Open University and the Vocational Teacher Education College at JAMK University of
Applied Sciences are pioneers in net pedagogy. Lecturer Satu Aksovaara from JAMK University of
Applied Sciences’ Vocational Teacher Education College believes that new technologies will bring
more genuine group-situation elements than at present to online learning as well.
“When people are face to face, a lot of non-verbal information circulates in the group which the
teacher can use to shape the learning situation. Students’ non-orchestrated moments in turn promote group building and genuine involvement,” Aksovaara underlines.
Fear of failure has gone
According to Jukka Lerkkanen one major national question is how pedagogues can help young
people in particular to find a passion for their learning.
“Most people develop an interest in something. The source of their enthusiasm may be work,
art, science or a hobby. The teachers’ task is to find that passion for learning among youngsters
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During Innovation Week first year students at JAMK University of Applied Sciences came up with ideas on how a new
item of rehabilitation equipment developed by FinRehab Oy could be brought to market. The team comprised (from
left) Hemmo Puskala (energy technology), Rasmus Hautala (business), Heidi Niemi (business), Samuli Rasmus (software
technology) and Miiro Porkka (student of physiotherapy).
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“WE HAVE TO
UNDERSTAND
THAT LEARNERS
ARE DIFFERENT
AND BUILD
SPACES THAT
SUPPORT A
MULTICHANNEL
APPROACH.”
plains Lecturer Juha Hautanen from JAMK
in compulsory education as well as those who
University of Applied Sciences.
have progressed further in their studies”, he
When doing the interviews the students
emphasises.
venture out of the institutional environment
The net offers an abundance of opportuniand mingle with customers. The aim of the
ties for planning one’s future, but a proportion
process is to get as close as possible to the end
of school-goers and students still need an exuser.
pert supervisor alongside them.
“On the basis of the interview material colJukka Lerkkanen considers that one obstalected each student has to come up with a huncle especially to young people’s career plans
dred ideas for solving the customer’s dilemma.
is a fear of failure. In recent years teaching in
The large number of ideas guarantees that the
Finland has taken on an entrepreneurial attiend result is of high calibre. No idea is bad. Fitude in which innovation is strongly encournally from the large number of ideas different
aged. One goal is to teach being unsuccessful:
concepts are fashioned for the customer. The
even putting forward a bad idea doesn’t mean
SATU AKSOVAARA
saying ’try fast, fail fast’ supports agile product
failure.
development,” Hautanen points out.
A good example of bold idea generation is
After the development of the solution conJAMK University of Applied Sciences’ Innocepts the testing phase begins. The students choose one convation Week, during which first year students at JAMK solve
cept, which is turned into a prototype or visual presentation.
challenges presented by working life using the Design Thinking
“At the end of the week the students present the task setter
method. Design Thinking is the best known user-driven probwith a description of how they have perceived the central problem solving method which supports the rapid trial principle.
lems and how they could be solved.”
This is made use of at the world’s leading business schools.
“The 600 students taking part in Innovation Week are dividSpace influences the ability to learn
ed into multidisciplinary groups of 60 people which find soluEducation should prepare students for working life. In the
tions to genuine working life problems in groups of five. Each
workplace we encounter a variety of environments which serve
student conducts five customer interviews, with the help of
the differing needs of multiform work: spaces are needed for
which the assignment’s central problems are crystallised,” exHUMAN TECH CENTER FINLAND
AIRPORT BECOMES
A LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT
Online pedagogy designer Jonna Kari and new media designer Sami Voutilainen are seen here providing a tour of the new learning spaces at JAMK University of Applied Sciences’ Dynamo facility. The furniture in the new spaces
can be quickly rearranged to facilitate group work, for example.
meeting people and on the other hand for independent working. Work is increasingly conducted elsewhere than in a fixed
work space.
“Change also has to occur in physical learning environments.
Thanks to changed conceptions of learning the learner now occupies centre stage. We have to understand that learners are different and build spaces that support a multichannel approach,”
Lecturer Satu Aksovaara suggests.
Aksovaara emphasises the importance of space planning.
“In order to develop new learning environments we have to
produce a model of both the teacher’s and the learner’s­
actions. We have to start from the basics, such
as how the space as a whole affects people’s emotions. One’s emotional state
influences the ability to learn new
things. Physical spaces have to be
designed in such a way that reconfiguring them is quick and
effortless,” she says.
In turn the ICT technology in these spaces must
be as easy to use and flexible as possible that students
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GENUINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS in working life occupy
a central role when learning a trade. Since the autumn of 2014,
Jyväskylä Institute of Adult Education – part of Jyväskylä Educational Consortium – has been responsible for running the Sky
Cafe & Food café-restaurant at Jyväskylä airport.
Sky Cafe & Food offers a real, working life-oriented learning environment for students of tourism, catering and business
among others. In the airport learning environment a practical
grounding for working life is obtained chiefly by adult students,
but upper secondary level students are involved in arranging
different events.
Collaboration with Finavia plc, which is responsible for airport services, has permitted a completely new way of producing
services at the airport. That in turn has led to a revitalisation of
the airport and its surroundings.
“We have to come up with new pedagogic models which support the adult student’s working life-oriented learning and also
develop students’ working life skills, such as intrapreneurship.
In learning we see a fusion of theoretical and practical studies
with the student’s previous expertise,” emphasises Programme
Manager Petra Leppäharju-Lipitsä from Jyväskylä Institute of
Adult Education.
The airport offers real customers
The airport offers a genuine working environment and real customers. The clientele are diverse: the students serve among
others passengers using charter and scheduled flights, lunch
customers as well as people attending training sessions and
meetings.
“During the daily routine situations change and pose challenges that cannot be anticipated beforehand.
For instance, if a departing plane is several
hours late the situation demands professional skill from the service providers
at the airport. In these situations
the airport’s customers demand
good service, which is a perfect
learning sce­nario for our students,” underlines Kirsti Kokkola, Head of Unit of the Welfare and Business at Jyväskylä
Institute of Adult Education at
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Student Aleksi Nikkari.
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TRAINING TO
SKY-HIGH STANDARDS
Jyväskylä Garrison is flying high – in terms of both aircraft and training programmes. In the future almost
all of the Finnish Air Force’s specialised training will be provided at the Air Force Academy in Tikkakoski
near Jyväskylä.
Words by Tommi Salo Photos by The Air Force Academy
THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY is a university-level military training institute. Its mission is to train conscripts, reservists and
Defence Forces personnel to perform their duties in times of
peace, crisis and war.
Among the latest arrivals at Tikkakoski, twenty kilometres
north of Jyväskylä, are the Air Force’s Hawk jet trainers. The
Hawks arrived at their new base at the beginning of 2015. Aircraft maintenance and weapons systems training transferred to
tors. In addition to boosting the effectiveness of flight training,
simulators are also used to support aircraft maintenance and
weapons systems training.
“Our facilities include training environments for air operations command. By activating all the elements of an air operation simultaneously we can achieve the most realistic environment possible,” Mäntylä says.
Hakala states that the Air Force Academy trains people to
Tikkakoski at the beginning of 2014.
“We now cover the whole spectrum of training at Tikkakoski, and this enables us to arrange more extensive programmes
than before. The flight training system is our strength. Our
student intake is very good, and we can train them efficiently, with a relatively low number of flight hours, to international standards,” says Col. Pasi Hakala, Commandant of the Air
Force Academy.
“By centralising our training in a single place we are able to
make it more consistent while avoiding resource overlap,” adds
Vesa Mäntylä, Chief of the Training and Education Center.
meet the needs of the Air and Defence Forces.
“That makes it easier to recognise what skills and expertise
are needed. At the same time we need the capability to identify what kinds of new skills the students will require and what
methods and equipment will be needed to offer those skills,”
Hakala says.
More effective training with simulators
From now on both the Vinka basic trainers and Hawks will be
taking to the skies around Jyväskylä. Hornet fighters will also
be seen at Tikkakoski, because they are used in aircraft maintenance and weapons systems training.
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Achieving more by working together
The Air Force Academy works with other educational and
training institutes both regionally and internationally.
It has cooperated with Jyväskylä College in the field of driver
training and with JAMK University of Applied Sciences in programmes related to vocational pedagogics and cyber security.
According to Hakala, the University of Jyväskylä could be an interesting partner from the perspective of sport science.
“International collaboration provides an opportunity to analyse
joint operating models and form an understanding of models representing the international operating environment. To a certain
extent we also organise international student exchanges.” n
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“THE FLIGHT TRAINING SYSTEM IS
OUR STRENGTH. OUR STUDENT
INTAKE IS VERY GOOD, AND WE
CAN TRAIN THEM EFFICIENTLY,
WITH A RELATIVELY LOW
NUMBER OF FLIGHT HOURS, TO
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS.”
PASI HAKALA
UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL LAUNCHES CAREERS IN AVIATION
UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS in Tikkakoski can
explore opportunities in the aviation sector. Finland’s first national upper secondary school specialising in aviation was established at the Tikkakoski unit of Jyväskylän Lyseo Upper Secondary School in 1994. The school offers students the chance to
take aviation courses alongside their other studies.
The objective is to give the students a good general understanding of aviation and aviation-linked careers, and to guide
and encourage them to continue in the field.
“Each year around half of the students have studied on the
aviation track. After leaving school they have progressed via
further studies to become commercial pilots, helicopter pilots,
or air traffic controllers, or they have taken up technical roles in
the aviation sector or entered the Air Force Academy,” says Antero Hietamäki, Head of School.
Students on the aviation track take the theory courses required for a private pilot licence. All students have the opportu-
nity to experience a glider flight. Many also try parachuting and
other aviation hobbies.
Students have also taken the chance to acquaint themselves
with the Air Force Academy and the study opportunities it offers.
Course offering partly in English
Nowadays the theory courses for the private pilot licence are
ideal for international exchange students, because the online
course materials and literature are in English.
Students can also deepen their aviation expertise with cour­
ses outside Tikkakoski Upper Secondary School. JAMK University of Applied Sciences, the Institute of Adult Education, Jyväskylä College and Tikkakoski Upper Secondary School have
established a joint ‘Runway’ leading to aviation careers. Students can include aviation courses offered by all these institutes
in their qualification. n
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Resource wisdom: Increasing the
use of local food reduces emissions
and creates new jobs
LOCALLYSOURCED
FISH AND
VEGETABLES
In the autumn of 2014 at the City of Jyväskylä’s Vesanka day care
centre-school, the children were able to experience a taste of
real local food. In a trial related to resource wisdom an operating
model was formulated by means of which professional
kitchens can centrally purchase both vegetables produced by
local businesses and fish caught in local lakes.
Words by Timo Sillanpää Photo by Petteri Kivimäki
THE AIM OF RESOURCE WISDOM
is to save on natural resources, reduce
emissions and create fresh business
opportunities and jobs. According
to Leena Pölkki, Project Man­ager
of the Local Food ResourceWise for Public Kitchens project, fishing, the production
of roots and other vegetables,
as well as the refining of raw
materials could be increased
provided there was more direct cooperation between
producers and end users.
“The big advantage of local food is its freshness as
well as reliable information
about both its origin and
production
methods,”
Lee­na­ Pölkki underlines.
The kitchen of the
day care centre-school
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in the Vesanka area of Jyväskylä pro­
duces approximately 350 meals daily.
During the autumn a pilot scheme was
implemented in Vesanka, the purpose of
which was to make it easier to use locally-sourced food in publicly-owned
professional kitchens. For the children’s
meals use was made of a coarse fish –
roach – caught in northern Lake Päijänne
and carrots grown in Saarijärvi, northwest of Jyväskylä.
Local lakes full of fish
For this practical experiment different
recipes were developed at JAMK University of Applied Sciences which suited the new raw material, roach (Rutilus
rutilus). As a result of this development
work recipes were created for a fishloaf,
casserole, pasta dish, sauce and fish pie.
Resource wisdom can simply mean
that traditional, tried and tested ways of
New models are under development in the
Jyväskylä Region for exploiting the potential of
local food. Otto Mäkivirta, a second year pupil
at Vesanka school, is keen on tasting a casserole made from Lake Päijänne roach.
“REFINING AND
TRANSPORTING SUCH
STOCKS CONSUMES
A VAST AMOUNT OF
NATURAL RESOURCES.”
LEENA PÖLKKI
doing things from the days of agrarian
society are brought back into use.
“Many consider roach a junk fish. This
reputation is due in part to the fact that
in summer the fish churns up the muddy lake bottom and what’s down there
has a negative impact on its flavour.
When roach is caught when the water is
cold, there’s no disturbing tang. Overall
in terms of flavour and nutritional value­
roach makes excellent eating”, Leena
Pölkki continues.
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“In Finland local lakes are full of fish,
but still we use frozen stock. Refining
and transporting such stocks consumes
a vast amount of natural resources.”
During the trial the climate impacts
of different raw materials, factors linked
to the eutrophication of waterways and
the effects on the local economy of exploiting local food were analysed. The
comparison of climate impacts revealed
among other things that tuna has approximately five times the impact compared to local roach.
According to Leena Pölkki the replicable model will serve to ease and increase the use of local food in professional kitchens. The model answers practical
challenges: it takes into account the local food offer in recipes and purchasing,
facilitates the development of well-functioning ordering systems and promotes
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TOWARDS AN ECOLOGICALLY
SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE
The City of Jyväskylä and Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, jointly launched the Towards Resource Wisdom project in 2013. Behind the project lies the concern that the western way of life uses up too many
natural resources and is responsible for harmful emissions. For instance, more than three globes would
be necessary in order to maintain the lifestyle of Finns.
Sitra’s Lead Expert Lari Rajantie states: “The aim is for Jyväskylä to genuinely become a resource
wise city which doesn’t produce any emissions or waste at all. In addition it aims to consume only the
amount of natural resources with which the globe can sustain – in other words significantly less than
any Finnish or western city at present.”
At the beginning of 2015 results will be obtained from a number of practical experiments aimed at
establishing ways of achieving an ecologically sustainable lifestyle. Five households, for example, have
tested a way of life which consumes fewer natural resources than at present.
Resource wisdom will also exert a key influence on the planning of the Kangas area and the new
central hospital. For instance, in the planning of the Kangas area the One Planet Living concept will be
applied in Finland for the first time. The concept is based on the idea that in the West, too, we have to
live in accordance with the limits of the world’s capacity to support us.
“On the basis of the results obtained from these trials a kind of roadmap aiming at the promotion of
resource wisdom will be drawn up for the City of Jyväskylä. Change will proceed slowly, but one important milestone will be the year 2050,” Rajantie continues.
Experiences and best practices gained in Jyväskylä will also be spread to other cities. In partnership
with a network of ten cities Sitra is developing a model that draws on experiences in Jyväskylä to support other cities in bringing about similar changes. n
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100
BIKES
RAFFLED
TO STUDENTS
Words by Timo Sillanpää Photos by Jarkko Poikonen
A HUNDRED FIRST year higher education students won a free
bicycle in a raffle held in the early autumn of 2014. The 100
bikes campaign inspired by the idea of resource wisdom was
conducted by the University of Jyväskylä, JAMK University of
Applied Sciences and Humak University of Applied Sciences in
partnership with the City of Jyväskylä and Jyväskylä Cycling
Association JYPS.
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First year students at JAMK University of Applied Sciences Santeri Tuuli (left)
and Tommi Saltiola both won professionally overhauled bicycles in the 100
bikes campaign. Santeri and Tommi are following the Rural Livelihoods degree programme at JAMK’s Bioeconomy Institute with a view to graduating as
agrologists. “In future people are going to have to make consumption choices
in a more informed way than at present,” Tommi Saltiola suggests.
“We received a lot of used bicycles as donations, which the
cycling association then overhauled for new students. For a student Jyväskylä is a city of ideal size to move around in by bike,”
explains Miikka Kimari, Head of Communications and Marketing at the University of Jyväskylä, who was involved in putting
the campaign together.
Bicycles were donated to the campaign by private persons,
university staff and others. In addition KOAS, the Central Finland student housing foundation, contributed a considerable
number of abandoned bicycles for repair.
During the refit particular attention was paid to safety. In addition to putting the bikes into good working order the repair
team ensured each was fitted with the appropriate safety equipment, such as spoke reflectors, a bell and a front light. Other
parts that commonly needed replacing were brake cables, brake
blocks, saddles, tyres and pedals.
“Repairing abandoned and superfluous bicycles for students’
use is a good example of resource wisdom. What’s more, young
people have increasing respect for concrete actions which save
natural resources and reduce emissions. The campaign is also a
very good way of promoting cycling culture,” Kimari continues.
The 100 bikes campaign was staged for the first time in the
autumn of 2014. Kimari is firmly of the opinion that a similar
campaign will also materialize in autumn 2015. n
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IN BRIEF
”A RESTAURANT OF ONE’S OWN
IS THE UNIVERSAL DREAM”
PIA TERVOJA
By Pia Tervoja
Restaurant Day is a food carnival in which anyone at all can establish a pop-up restaurant or
café for a day. In Finland Restaurant Day has already been celebrated 15 times. Restaurant Day
has spread from Finland to 64 countries, as far
away as Brazil and Japan.
“Opening one’s own café or restaurant is a
universal dream. Restaurant Day is a fun way not
only of spending time and getting to know people but also of testing out a concept for a new
restaurant business,” explains Timo Santala, the
man who came up with the idea.
In the autumn of 2014 Santala ran a workshop for students of Hospitality Management
at JAMK University of Applied Sciences, in the
course of which he encouraged future catering
professionals to turn their own ideas into reality.
During the workshop the students planned five
restaurants for Restaurant Day.
According to lecturer Karoliina Väisänen ideas
do not always oocur automatically, in fact the
students need innovation skills.
“Restaurant Day provides a good opportunity
to play around with the world of flavours and
the senses as well as try out ideas of the wackier
sort. At the same time students develop a joy
and passion for their chosen branch.” n
www.restaurantday.org
Hospitality Management students Susanna Latomäki, Elisa Lampinen, Riikka Häkkinen, Jenna Aho and Noora-Merinja
Hietanen came up with an eatery in the style of TV series Sex and the City for Restaurant Day. The items on sale included
hot dogs, spicy cup cakes and alcohol-free Cosmopolitan drinks.
FOCUS ON THE BARENTS REGION
By Pia Tervoja
Major mining, railway and oil terminal projects
in the Barents Region are boosting the growth
prospects of companies in Central Finland. Sweden and Norway are set to invest as much as
EUR 75 billion in the Arctic area during the next
few years.
“Now it’s time to look closer to home. The
first group of companies from Central Finland
has already won business in the Barents Region.
This year we’re aiming for an increase in exports
of EUR 20 million,” says Tero Rautiainen, Director,
Growth and Development Services at Jyväskylä
Regional Development Company, Jykes Ltd.
Most of the companies from Central Finland
that are seeking new export business are involved in manufacturing. They include companies with specialised know-how in fields like the
manufacture of acid-proof steel products and
different types of measuring and alarm systems.
Businesses in Central Finland can also offer expertise in project management and engineering.
“One of the biggest projects in the Barents
Region is the relocation of two municipalities –
Kiruna and Gällivare – to allow the expansion of
mining activities. This also means opportunities
for companies in the construction, renovation,
electrical engineering and automation fields,”
Rautiainen states. n
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New mobile game from Jyväskylä brings together bands and their fans
GAMING, MUSIC AND GREAT PRIZES
Would you like to get a call from the lead singer of your favourite band? Take part in a meet & greet
session with members of the band? Get a high enough score in this new mobile game and you could win a
really special prize. A gaming company in Jyväskylä has come up with a new way to bring artists and their
fans together.
Words by Tommi Salo Photos by Petteri Kivimäki, FanART Games and Shutterstock Graphics by Martti Hänninen
IN NOVEMBER 2014 FanART Games of Jyväskylä launched a
new way to create bonds between artists and their fans. Successful players of mobile game Mega FAN! can win really special prizes.
“The prizes in Mega FAN! can be something the bands themselves choose to offer their fans. You get a call from a band
member, you get the chance to join them for a meet & greet, or
you win autographed CDs and tickets for gigs. The most important thing is that the bands featured in the game want to interact with their fans,” says Patricia “Patty” Toledo, CEO of
FanART Games.
In the new mobile game, players choose a favourite
band and favourite band member. Then they do gigs,
become famous, earn in-game money and they might
even go on tour.
“Players are up against other players, but at the same time
the bands are also ‘fighting’ to be the most popular. In this
game a small band can be bigger than a more famous band,”
Toledo explains.
Toledo’s original idea was to develop the game for a German band. But the idea quickly started to grow and now
there are around twenty internationally known bands involved.
New channel connecting bands and fans
Toledo is originally from Brazil and she has 22 years of experience in the music world. She has done magazine and radio
work, arranged concerts and worked as a photographer.
She uses her close contacts to the movers and shakers of
the music world to build FanART Games, which was started
in early­2014. She has also studied digital media at the University of Jyväskylä.
“Fans can’t really get into contact with their favourite artists.
So why shouldn’t we offer them a new way to interact?” Toledo asks.
She points out that when Facebook first launched, many
bands were not very enthusiastic about it, even though it’s now
seen as a very important channel. Mega FAN! offers another
new channel for bands to connect. At the same time smaller
bands can find new fans.
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In spring 2014 FanART Games was the first company in Central Finland to receive a EUR 20,000 Appcampus grant. The
grants are funded by Microsoft and Nokia, and organised by
Aalto University.
Toledo is a self-confessed workaholic, and she runs two other­
new companies in addition to FanART Games.
She has now settled in Jyväskylä after a life on the road following her passion for music. In the six years she has been in
Finland, she has lived in Jyväskylä, Helsinki and Viitasaari,
which is north of Jyväskylä. Toledo has also lived in Brazil, Austria, Argentina and Germany. n
www.fanartgames.com
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BEATCON – GAME EVENT MEETS ROCK FESTIVAL
Patty Toledo’s diary is full. As well as launching her new mobile game she has organised
a major music and game event at the beginning of 2015 in Jyväskylä. Several thousand
gamers­and music fans are expected to flock to Jyväskylä Paviljonki at the end of January.
BeatCon will feature talks and workshops hosted by game developers and figures from
the world of music, as well as live music on three evenings. Game developers can also meet
potential investors at BeatCon. Fans will be able to play games linked to the bands and win
prizes.
“I want to bring together people who make music and develop games, and ordinary music fans and gamers,” Toledo says. The aim is for BeatCon to become an annual event.
• BeatCon Music & Games Festival, 29–31 January 2015 at Jyväskylä Paviljonki. www.beatcon.net
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MAKING TRANSPORT MORE
NFleet’s transportation optimisation and planning tool is ideal for transportation companies that want to
grow and get ahead of the competition. “We are in a Blue Ocean situation where the market is fairly empty
and we only have a limited number of competitors,” says Jouko Nieminen, NFleet Oy’s head of product
marketing.
Words by Pia Tervoja Photo by Petteri Kivimäki Graphics by Martti Hänninen
THE JYVÄSKYLÄ-BASED company has entered the markets
with its NFleet tool, which streamlines transportation planning
and optimisation for transportation companies. The tool does
not mean it’s the end of the road for dispatchers, but it does reduce routine work and the potential for errors, and it speeds up
tasks like calculating price quotes. It also helps to control opera­
tions efficiently in changing situations.
“At the moment SMEs do most of their transportation planning manually. With our service these companies can improve
the efficiency of their transportation operations by 10–30 per
cent. Customers can increase their turnover with their existing
capacity,” Jouko Nieminen explains.
Targeting innovators
Small companies can use the NFleet service as a web-based application without the need to pay licence fees. Larger companies
can use the optimisation and planning capabilities as a cloudbased service within their enterprise resource planning system.
“Our customers also include software companies that develop
ERPs. We supply their product with the calculation tool, which
can be laborious to develop in-house,” says Tuukka Puranen,
NFleet’s head of technology.
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NFleet is a young company, but its technology and business
concept are the result of many years of development. The company’s shareholders were involved in research at the University
of Jyväskylä’s Department of Mathematical Information Technology. Their group conducted research under the department’s
CO-SKY project, which worked with companies and public-­
sector bodies to develop the service concept.
“We wanted to do our research in an entrepreneurial way. We
were very eager to succeed, even though we didn’t know at the
beginning whether we could turn our work into a business,”
Jouko Nieminen says.
The business idea started to take off after funding was received from Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation. During the funding period the group refined its business
idea and the market situation became clear. The company was
established in the summer of 2014.
“Our markets are in the EU. Potential customers are innovators who can see that our service will give them a competitive
advantage.” n
www.nfleet.fi
HUMAN TECH CENTER FINLAND
EFFICIENT
Jyväskylä Innovation and Business
Factory knows how to create growth
companies
Behind the technology and service concept
employed by NFleet Oy lies academic research
and development work extending over a number
of years. Sisko Malkamäki and Jouko Nieminen’s
area of responsibility is product marketing.
Tuukka Puranen (right) is responsible for
technology at the company.
FROM IDEAS TO
BUSINESS DIAMONDS
By Pia Tervoja
Jyväskylä Innovation and Business Factory is a new
service concept that offers intensive sparring to
people who are either interested in becoming entrepreneurs or have already started their own business.
“We are a one-stop resource providing help in
the various stages of entrepreneurship. As soon
as someone gets an idea that can be turned into a
business activity they can come to us. We are looking for customers among individuals and teams,
and the staff, researchers and students of educational institutes,” says Veli-Pekka Heikkinen, Director.
The Innovation and Business Factory brings
together under one roof public-sector business
development organisations like the Enterprise
Agency Jyväskylä Region, TE-services and Jyväskylä
Regional Development Company Jykes Ltd. Other
partners include the University of Jyväskylä, JAMK
University of Applied Sciences and Jyväskylä Educational Consortium.
More international ventures
The Innovation and Business Factory offers its
services to all candidate entrepreneurs, but
growth ventures are central to its activities.
“The number of new companies being set up
in the Jyväskylä Region is at a quite good level,
but we should have more growth ventures
aiming to enter the international markets. Our
annual target is 400 business ideas, which
will lead to the creation of 80 companies and
around 20–30 business ideas that will be processed onto a growth track."
The Innovation and Business Factory started
its operations in the early autumn of 2014. It is
initially seeking to increase its visibility so that
entrepreneurs will find its services. One of
the ways its staff make contact with entrepreneurs is to participate in events
aimed at start-up companies.
“Our tasks also include looking
for investors who are interested
in local companies,” Heikkinen
adds. n
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JIRI HALTTUNEN
h Last year one of the activities accompanying the City of Light event
in Jyväskylä was the Autumn Night Run. The run enabled people to
acquaint themselves with Jyväskylä’s night-time face in a novel manner.
Some of the runners even dressed the part for the light theme.
CITY IN A
NEW LIGHT
TOUHO HÄKKINEN
2015 has been officially proclaimed by the UN as
the International Year of Light, to be coordinated
by the UN’s specialised agency for education,
science and culture Unesco. Jyväskylä is the
only city in the world which officially conducts
cooperation with UNESCO’s International Year
of Light organisation. The aim of the theme year
is to bring out the importance of light and light
technologies in people’s everyday lives and for
mankind as a whole.
Words by Tommi Salo
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h Portuguese company Ocubo’s Virtual Dancer was projected onto the
wall of a Jyväskylä shopping centre. Pictured here is a dancer from the
National Ballet of Portugal.
HUMAN TECH CENTER FINLAND
THE CITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ has acted for years now as an expert
adviser on urban lighting both nationally and internationally. In
addition to its own light-themed events Jyväskylä has arranged
happenings and seminars in many different places in Finland as
well as in Sweden, Estonia and Belgium.
“Our goal is to disseminate information on a number of issues, including what factors should be taken into consideration
when planning urban lighting and how light pollution can be reduced. Research has also been done in Jyväskylä into the use of
LED lights in urban illumination,” explains Jani Ruotsalainen,
Coordinator of the City of Light project.
The city’s international City of Light event, which forms part
of the International Year of Light, will be staged in Jyväskylä in
October 2015.
The accompanying spread details the yield of light-themed
events held both in Finland and elsewhere in Europe. n
PETTERI KIVIMÄKI
www.valonkaupunki.jyvaskyla.fi/english
Hiukkasen valoa (Particle of Light) event gave the public admission to the
University of Jyväskylä’s Accelerator Laboratory. In the course of the evening
the particle accelerator was presented with the help of a light installation
and an introduction given to the work being carried out by various research
teams. An interactive LHC tunnel had been brought to Jyväskylä from the
world-famous CERN research centre in Switzerland and this allowed people to
observe protons colliding and the reactions resulting from this. The younger
participants had great fun having a go at proton football.
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JUHAN VOOLAID
SIMON ALLINGGÅRD
Energy efficiency and lighting
expertise native to Jyväskylä has
been exported to a number of
places in Europe. People taking part
in light-themed events have been
given the chance to enjoy familiar
scenery and buildings in a new light
in Torshälla – part of the Swedish
municipality of Eskilstuna – as well
as in Hasselt, Belgium and Estonia’s
second largest city, Tartu.
TARTU
ESKILSTUNA
HASSELT
CITY OF LIGHT JYVÄSKYLÄ/ANNUKKA LARSEN
TARTU
JUHAN VOOLAID
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EXPORTING FINLAND’S
EDUCATIONAL
EXPERTISE
Countries in the process of developing their education systems have
a high regard for the expertise of Finnish education professionals. For
a number of years educational organisations based in Jyväskylä have
been exporting proven models from the Finnish education system
around the world.
Words by Timo Sillanpää Photo by Jussi Ahonen
THE DEVELOPING ECONOMIES have
realised that a qualified labour force provides a significant competitive advantage in the global economy. In China the
aim of the National Plan for Medium and
Long-term Education Reform and Development 2010–2020 is to have a modern
vocational education system with worldclass standards in place by 2020.
“Areas that China wants to develop include vocational teachers’ pedagogic and
vocational skills, the relevance of education to working life, skills assessment,
and student-oriented models for implementing education and training,” says
Project Manager Kirsi Koivunen of Jyväskylä Educational Consortium.
“IN CHINA THERE ARE
13 177
INSTITUTES OF SECONDARY
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. THE
OBJECTIVE OF THE CURRENT
EDUCATIONAL REFORM IS TO
HAVE A MODERN VOCATIONAL
EDUCATION SYSTEM WITH
WORLD-CLASS STANDARDS IN
PLACE BY 2020.”
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During 2014 experts from Jyväskylä
Educational Consortium were involved
in organising the Sino-Finnish Vocational Education Teacher Training Programme in Shanghai. The programme
was implemented in collaboration with
EduCluster Finland, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences and Omnia, the
Joint Authority of Education in the Espoo Region. In Shanghai the programme
was arranged in the form of five oneweek-sessions, with 60 teachers taking
part from two vocational institutes in
the Minhang area of Shanghai.
“One factor that helped launch this
collaboration was a visit by representatives of the Shanghai educational administration and teachers to Finland. In Jyväskylä they had a chance to hear about
the distinctive features of Finnish vocational education,” Koivunen says.
EduCluster Finland Ltd is a Jyväskylä
based expert organisation and its Manager, Asia Operations is Anna Korpi,
who is based in Shanghai. She sees great
opportunities in China for Finnish organisations involved in education development, but does not regard the market
as an easy one.
“In Finland we have a number of
strengths: we have a broad range of expertise, we are solution-focused, and we
have the capacity to develop the entire
education system. Expertise is needed at
many different levels: in schools, teacher
training, and in the development of the
entire system. But success in China requires a long-term effort, the right partners and successful projects and references,” Korpi states.
Kazakhstan relies
on Finnish expertise
The health care system of Kazakhstan is
presently undergoing significant modernisation, and JAMK University of Applied Sciences is playing its own part
along with the Laurea, Häme and Lahti Universities of Applied Sciences. The
modernisation also impacts the status of
nursing.
Finnish experts are involved in work
HUMAN TECH CENTER FINLAND
During the summer and autumn of 2014 Jyväskylä Educational Consortium’s experts visited
Shanghai in order to explain the special features
of the Finnish system of vocational education to
local teachers in the field. Trainer Jussi Ahonen
and Yimo Chen are pictured discussing instruction related to connecting contactors at Shanghai
Southwest Engineering School.
TEAM ACADEMY
HEADS FOR AUSTRALIA
to reform nursing education, acting in
collaboration with the Kazakh Ministry
of Public Health. The Finns are tasked
with furthering the nation’s aim of raising nursing education from college to
Bachelor level. In all, 60 nursing education institutes are being developed. Organisations funding the development
work include the World Bank.
“In practice the country is modernising its entire health care system, because
the development of nursing education is
linked to the health care reforms,” says
Timo Juntunen, Head of Education Export at JAMK University of Applied Sciences.
Experts from Jyväskylä have visited the city of Astana and been involved
in organising continuing education for
teachers, staff and principals of institutes that provide nursing education.
One of the objectives of the efforts to
develop nursing education is to strengthen teachers’ pedagogic skills, and for this
purpose the JAMK Teacher Education
College has drafted educational stan­
dards.
“State-owned company Kasipkor Holding is seeking to reinforce teachers’ vocational pedagogic expertise. The aim is to
transform the role of vocational teachers to broaden collaboration with working life and make it a natural part of the
teaching. Other elements of our cooperation include developing expertise relating to the evaluation of students’ skills
and quality control practices, as well as
training for trainers.” n
In early 2015 JAMK’s Team Academy (Tiimiakatemia) is going to take the team learning
model to Australia, and to Melbourne in particular. Two cooperatives run by third year students
– Millio and Mittava Innovations – will organise
1–2 day team entrepreneurship courses for university students and lecturers in Australia. In all
nine students will be going to Australia.
“We aim to sow the seeds of team learning in
Australia and get local universities interested in
establishing Tiimiakatemia type units,” says Saija
Valkonen, Communications Manager at the Millio Cooperative.
Over the years the Team Academy model has
spread outside Finland. Team Academy units
are currently operating in Brazil, Spain, France,
Hungary, the UK, Netherlands and Tanzania.
Partus Ltd, which owns the Team Academy trade
mark, is the organisation behind this drive to go
international and also provides sparring for the
students.
“The team learning model is also being
promoted with international events. Learning Revolution in autumn 2015 will be a major
event in Helsinki, and it will be attended by team
learning experts from around the world,” Saija
Valkonen says. n
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With a little effort, everyone can
help to make cyber crime harder
CONTROLLING
THE RISKS
Cyber security is risk control: when you go online, is the
benefit worth more than the biggest possible loss you
could suffer? Cyber threats range from minor nuisances
to catastrophes that can shake entire nations.
Words by Tommi Salo Photos by Tero Takalo-Eskola
THE LIST OF CYBER ATTACKS is almost endless. In 2013 the
Finnish Foreign Ministry discovered it had been the victim of
a long-term campaign of cyber espionage. In just a short period passwords belonging to tens of millions of ordinary citizens
were stolen from popular Internet services that everyone uses.
In 2007 Estonia suffered massive denial-of-service attacks. Back
in 1989 data belonging to the University of Bologna was compromised. The attackers destroyed AIDS research data that had
not been backed up.
“Gathering information about these attacks would be a fullday job,” says Martti Lehto, Adjunct Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Jyväskylä.
Scratching the surface of cyber attacks reveals an important
fact: we should all understand the importance of cyber security
in our everyday lives.
“There are aspects of data breaches that affect ordinary citi22
zens, states and companies,” Lehto explains.
Producing comprehensive statistics on the extent and effects
of cyber attacks is difficult because not all victims want to speak
up about what has happened. According to one estimate, cyber
crime costs companies a total of one hundred billion dollars annually, which means billions in extra costs passed on to consumers and organisations.
In 2013 it was estimated that at least 550 million people fall
victim to cyber attacks each year.
“Some experts have even estimated that the benefits of digitalisation are being outweighed by cyber crime,” Lehto adds.
Losing money, losing trust
In spite of the cyber threats, there’s no going back to the analogue era. The digital world is getting more and more complicated; the amount of code is increasing, which means that bugs
HUMAN TECH CENTER FINLAND
JYVSECTEC (Jyväskylä Security
Technology at JAMK) develops
and maintains a cyber security
infrastructure (RGCE, Realistic
Global Cyber Environment) to
enable research, development
and training services for their
co-operation network.
and security gaps get left in systems.
“In a sense, even companies can end up
outside their own information systems
when services are outsourced and complex
systems are created,” Lehto believes.
Mika Kataikko, Director, Cyber Security
at Jyväskylä Regional Development Company Jykes Ltd stresses that cyber security is
always a question of risk control. What am I
doing online, what can I achieve through it
and what can I lose because of it?
“For example, companies can lose money­
and their customers’ trust as a result of
their online activities. People in companies
should always ask themselves: how much is
our business worth to us and what would
“ACCEPT
OFFICIAL
UPDATES
AND ALWAYS
UPDATE YOUR
SOFTWARE TO
THE LATEST
VERSION.”
MIKA KATAIKKO
be the cost of losing it? Sometimes it’s necessary to take protective measures, sometimes it’s enough to simply react, but the
main thing is that the decision is based on
the needs of the business,” Kataikko says.
There is a lot of discussion about the dangers of the digital world, but Kataikko explains that there are simple steps everyone
can take to reduce the risks.
“Accept official updates and always update your software to the latest version.
Treat suspicious messages very carefully.
At least you can always check the exact address the message has come from or precisely what web address the message asks you
to click on.”
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JAMK STUDENTS STRIKE
BACK AGAINST CYBER
THREATS
By Tommi Salo
Services produced by the RGCE at JAMK are offered to companies and other parties for training purposes and testing their own information systems.
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Attacks increase awareness
Kataikko emphasises that the parts of the Internet that are ‘fair game’, like unprotected IP addresses, are sure to be in illegal use by someone.
According to the Jyväskylä based cyber security experts, people can take the
first step towards a safer world by changing the way they think. If everyone who
goes online uses commonsense and learns the basics about using the Internet
safely then the criminals will have to go to even more trouble.
“People often think that the Internet is not dangerous as long as nothing happens,” Kataikko states.
“The threats range from minor nuisances to catastrophes. One thing that generally makes people wake up is when they lose real money,” Lehto adds.
Cyber threats do not respect national borders or language barriers, and cyber
criminals do not work alone. According to Lehto, there is no solid, centralised
control over cyber security.
“It’s difficult to say whether the crooks have already innovated all the possible methods of committing crimes. In any case, they do have a lot of methods at
their disposal.”
Lehto sees it as essential that states, companies and research organisations
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The Kangas project will be the main urban development project in Jyväskylä for several decades to
come. In the future Kangas will be home to 5 000 inhabitants and 2 000 new jobs.
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In future degree students at JAMK University of
Applied Sciences will be able to specialise in cyber security.
Following their first year of core subjects, students of cyber security on the Information and
Communications Technology degree course will
study the building blocks of the information society, and test their reliability and protect them
against threats. They will also study programming and data networks from the perspective
of security.
Some of the courses will take place in JAMK’s
Realistic Global Cyber Security Environment
(RGCE). Major problems arising from eDemocracy that affect data networks and information
systems can be demonstrated in this isolated
environment without compromising real-world
systems.
Students at JAMK were previously able to
qualify as cyber security professionals by completing a Master’s Degree. n
CYBER SECURITY HELPS
TO KEEP KANGAS
RUNNING SMOOTHLY
By Tommi Salo
The Kangas area of Jyväskylä is being transformed into an environment for developing new
approaches in modern living. An outline plan
is being prepared for the Kangas ICT service architecture. This will incorporate elements such
as safety, integration of electric locking and access control systems with equipment rooms, and
the physical securing of the various spaces and
areas. The ICT solutions also include a fibre optic and mobile phone networks, as well as smart
building technologies and systems to display energy consumption rates.
Cyber security will play an important part in
future services in the Kangas area.
“Planning for the area is oriented towards the
safety and ease of daily life. At the moment we
are determining what systems are needed for
Kangas and how the different systems can be
linked together in a way that makes life easy for
the users,” says Tanja Oksa, Manager of the Kangas Development Project.
Areas where cyber security will be taken into
account include the protection of privacy, data
collection without identification of individuals,
and controlled access to physical equipment
environments. n
HUMAN TECH CENTER FINLAND
IN BRIEF
THREE MEDALS FOR CENTRAL
FINLAND AT EUROSKILLS 2014
PHOTOS: SKILL S FINL AND RY
By Timo Sillanpää
Competitors representing Jyväskylä College –
which belongs to Jyväskylä Educational Consortium – won two personal medals at EuroSkills
2014, which was held in October in Lille, France.
450 young skilled workers, from 25 countries,
competed over 3 days in 41 skills for the title
best of Europe.
Joona Finni (Restaurant Service) and Oskar
Hänninen (Print Technician) both won Bronze. In
addition to his personal Bronze, Joona Finni was
also a member of the group that won Silver in
the Cook & Serve team category.
The Gold medal in Restaurant Service went to
the host country, France, with an Austrian competitor taking Silver. Restaurant Service
is the biggest category in EuroSkills,
with 17 countries competing. It covers
a range of tasks and performance is
evaluated according to criteria ranging
from technical knowledge to social
skills.
The Print Technician Gold went to
France and Silver to Portugal. In addition to offset and digital printing,
this year competitors were tested for
the first time on large format printing. Success requires concentration,
speed, accuracy, broad technical
knowledge and an understanding of
quality requirements. n
Oskar Hänninen (Print
Technician) and Joona
Finni (Restaurant Service)
both won Bronze.
KANGAS TO FEATURE AT
INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY SHOW
By Pia Tervoja
Kangas – which is Jyväskylä’s foremost city area
development project – will be prominently featured at the MIPIM property investment expo.
The expo, which will be held in Cannes in March
2015, is one of Europe’s biggest and best known
exhibitions in the property field. Jyväskylä will
be part of a joint Helsinki-Finland stand.
Kangas is a 30 hectare area that was formerly
occupied by a paper mill. By 2025 it will have
around 2 100 jobs and 3 000 residents. Innovations planned for Kangas include the area’s own
fibre optic network, and smart solutions for the
municipal infrastructure, energy and parking.
The area is being planned around the concept of
resource-wise living.
“Kangas offers a range of investment op-
portunities – not only for the construction of
housing and workplaces, but also hybrid models
where services, places of work and housing are
combined into different types of investment
packages,” says Anne Sandelin, Project Director.
Other parts of Jyväskylä that will be on show
at MIPIM are the city-centre Lyseo block, Eteläportti – the ‘Southern Gate’ – and the Hippos
area with its sports and wellbeing facilities. n
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IN BRIEF
ARCHITECTURE • ART • CULTURE • DESIGN • ENVIRONMENT
SCIENCE • EVENTS • NEWS • SPORT • LIFE • EDUCATION
WANTED:
INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS STORIES
By Pia Tervoja
In 2015 the Kasvu Open will be Finland’s biggest growth entrepreneurship competition
and sparring process and competition for Start Again companies.
The aim is for 850 enterprises to enter and of these 450 to take part in the Kasvu
Open sparring process. In this endeavour the enterprises can count on the help of over
900 growth entrepreneurship professionals.
In the Kasvu Open use is made of the Kasvun Kiitorata (’Growth Runway’) concept
developed by the University of Jyväskylä’s School of Business and Economics. During
the year roughly 20 regional Growth Paths will be arranged for businesses. The winners
will qualify for the Great Kasvu Open final to be held in Jyväskylä on 22.–23.10.2015.
“This year we are challenging enterprises to improve the preconditions for international growth, which will also be reflected in the sparring partner profiles. Those ready
to get involved include seasoned professionals on the boards of important Finnish export companies,” says Matti Härkönen, CEO of Kasvun Roihu Oy.
The Kasvu Open, to be staged now for the fifth time, has received good feedback
from entrepreneurs. Enterprises have not only found new business partners and key
personnel but also gained access to different financing models. n
kasvuopen.fi
The Jyväskylä-based mining branch equipment supplier Sleipner Finland won the 2014 Kasvu Open
competition. Pictured here Sales and Marketing Director Janne Pöllänen.
PHOTO: TERO TAKALO-ESKOLA
JAMK GAINS EUR-ACE ACCREDITATION FOR ENGLISH-LANGUAGE LOGISTICS PROGRAMME
By Timo Sillanpää
The English-language Logistics Engineering Programme at JAMK University of Applied Sciences­
has gained the prestigious EUR-ACE accreditation. This is the first programme at a Finnish University of Applied Sciences to achieve this international recognition of its quality.
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EUR-ACE accreditation is granted by the European Network for Accreditation of Engineering
Education, ENAEE. The EUR-ACE accreditation
agency in Finland is The Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC).
Accreditation shows that the Logistics Engineering Programme meets the same quality
criteria as equivalent programmes at leading
European educational institutes.
“For prospective students the EUR-ACE quality label shows that the programme we offer is
of high quality. I also believe EUR-ACE accreditation makes our Bachelor of Engineering degree
worth more in the marketplace,” says Sami Kantanen, Head of Department, Logistics. n
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JYVÄSKYLÄ INTERNATIONAL TATTOO CONVENTION 30.–31.5.2015
The 1st Jyväskylä International Tattoo Convention is one of the newest and freshest body art
conventions in the world. This convention will bring together an exciting range of creative,
unique, talented tattoo artists from all over the world.
EVENTS
29.–31.1. BeatCon Music & Games Festival
Venue: Jyväskylä Paviljonki – International
Congress and Trade Fair Centre
www.beatmusentertainment.me
6.–8.3. Building Trade and Home Renovation
2015 -fair
Venue: Jyväskylä Paviljonki – International
Congress and Trade Fair Centre
www.paviljonki.fi
25.–27.5. CM3 – Computational Multi
Physics, Multi Scales and Multi Big Data
in Transport Modeling, Simulation and
Optimization
Venue: Jyväskylä Paviljonki – International
Congress and Trade Fair Centre
www.jyu.fi/cm3
30.–31.5. Jyväskylä Tattoo Convention
Venue: Jyväskylä Paviljonki – International
Congress and Trade Fair Centre
www.jkltattooconvention.com
1.–5.6. Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Nuclear
Physics – NDM’15 congress
Venue: University of Jyväskylä,
Department of Physics
8.–11.6. Meeting of the Nordic Microscopy
Society – SCANDEM 2015
Venue: Jyväskylä Paviljonki – International
Congress and Trade Fair Centre
www.scandem.org
7.–12.7. Jyväskylä Festival
Venue: Jyväskylä
www.jyvaskylankesa.fi
23.–25.9. International Symposium on
Exercise Physiology: Focus on High-Intensity
Training and Nutrition
Venue: University of Jyväskylä
30.7.–2.8. Neste Oil Rally Finland 2015
Venue: Jyväskylä Region
www.nesteoilrallyfinland.fi
7.–9.8. 13th International Alvar Aalto
Symposium
Venue: Museum of Central Finland
www.alvaraalto.fi
24.–26.11. European Lifelong Guidance
Policy Network (ELGPN) Congress
Venue: Jyväskylä Paviljonki – International
Congress and Trade Fair Centre
www.elgpn.eu
AKK SPORTS LTD./TONI OLLIKAINEN
10.–13.8. Meeting of the International
Association for the Evaluation of Educational
Achievement – PIRLS
Venue: Jyväskylä Paviljonki – International
Congress and Trade Fair Centre
25.–27.8. Systech Conference – Systematic
Learning Solutions Conference & Expo
Venue: University of Jyväskylä
2.–4.9. Bioenergy 2015
Venue: Jyväskylä Paviljonki – International
Congress and Trade Fair Centre
www.bioenergiamessut.fi
23.–25.9. Cybersecurity & ICT 2015,
FinnGraf 2015
Venue: Jyväskylä Paviljonki – International
Congress and Trade Fair Centre
www.kyberturvallisuusmessut.fi
finngrafmessut.fi
The Finnish round of the WRC calendar will be run on
Central Finland’s sand and gravel roads from
30.7.–2.8.2015.
UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ AMONG THE
WORLD’S TOP 350 RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES
By Timo Sillanpää
The University of Jyväskylä is listed among the
top 350 on the Times Higher Education World
University Rankings list, which compares the
performance of research-oriented elite universities worldwide. The university’s position on the
2014–2015 list published in October of this year
was 351–400. The University of Jyväskylä has improved its result in particular where international
PETTERI KIVIMÄKI
joint publications and citations are concerned.
In 2011 the University of Jyväskylä was invited to participate in the Times Higher Education’s
global comparison of universities, which has appeared in its present form since 2010.
On the American Best Global Universities
Rankings list the University of Jyväskylä in turn
occupied 496th position in the global comparison and came 215th in the comparison confined
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