Yksi tärkeimmistä kilpailuvalteista prosessiteollisuudelle on perinpohjainen ymmärrys niistä kemian ilmiöistä, joita teollisissa prosesseissa havaitaan ja hyödynnetään. Digitalisoitu prosessiymmärrys ja siihen perustuva laskenta nopeuttavat prosessien suunnittelua, ongelmaratkaisua ja käytönaikaista diagnostiikkaa. DeepCleanTech-tutkimuskonsortion tavoitteena on luoda uusia digitaalisia menetelmiä prosessien tehokkaampaa hallintaan. Tutkittavia aiheita ovat muun muassa rajoitetut ja dynaamiset kemialliset järjestelmät, teolliset väkevät konsentraatit, bioprosessit ja niiden vaikutus prosessien kemiaan, sekä uudenlaiset hybridisovellukset. Lisäksi hankekonsortion toimesta todennetaan ja validoidaan valittujen mallien vastaavuutta käytäntöön testaamalla niitä kokeellisesti sekä laboratorio-olosuhteissa että pilot-mittakaavassa teollisissa kohteissa. Hanke tukee suomalaisen prosessiteollisuuden valmiuksia kehittää nykyisistä prosesseista entistä tehokkaampia ja ympäristöystävällisimpiä, mutta samalla se tarjoaa tavan myös täysin uudentyyppisten prosessiratkaisujen syntyyn. Optimaalisten prosessiratkaisujen sekä ajoparametrien tunnistamista ja määrittelyä pyritään nopeuttamaan merkittävästi integroimalla yhteen uusia digitaalisia mallinnustyökaluja ja välitöntä kokeellisen vasteen tuottamista tulosten validointiin prosessipilotointien kautta. Hankkeen lopputuloksena tavoitellaan uusia menetelmiä ja tietoa, jotka kuvataan konsortion toimesta viidessä tieteellisessä artikkelissa ja viidessä konferenssiesitelmässä. Lisäksi tulokset pyritään upottamaan osaksi ohjelmistoratkaisuja demonstraatioina. Hankkeessa tehdään myös tutkimusta tukevia opinnäytetöitä. Hanke on osa DeepCleanTech-rinnakkaishankekonsortiota. Tutkimushankkeen tuloksia voidaan hyödyntää yritysten omissa hankkeissa ja niiden käyttökelpoisuutta digitaalisen liiketoiminnan tukemiseen sekä optimaalisten prosessiratkaisujen kehittämiseen ja kaupallistamiseen arvioidaan osana yrityshankkeita.

Context/background of the project Equipping health professionals and educators with the tools they need to assess and improve their cultural competence will undoubtedly benefit patients. This project aims to optimize patient safety and patient benefit, by integrating cultural competence into simulation-based education. Simulation education is designed to increase the safety quotient and effectiveness of clinical practice through the rehearsal of skills in an artificial and authentic environment. Diverse patient characteristics may be conveyed through cultural, sensory, language, physical or psychological difference and may increase communication error and threaten patient safety. Arguably, culturally competent health professionals are better prepared to respond to patients with diverse needs relating to, for example, their gender, ethnicity, disability and age. The focus of this project is inclusive clinical practice and this applies not only to patients, but also to diverse health professional students and diverse faculty teachers, for example, those from an ethnic minority background or people experiencing hearing loss. The project objectives are to: 1. Create a multi-platform web hub dedicated to simulation-based education and cultural competence 2. Design, pilot, adapt and implement a web-based cultural competence self-assessment tool for simulation-based education with health professionals. 3. Design, pilot, adapt and implement a web-based cultural competence tool-kit for health professional simulation-based education. Number and profile of participants There will be eight health professional education simulation facilities involved in this project across four EU countries from Universities in England, Ireland, Finland and Slovenia will constitute the ‘core’ simulation facilities. The target population for this project is pre-registration health professionals (for example, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, paramedics, medical students) across all programme year groups. This project will address cultural competency through simulation-based education among a range of health professionals using an inter-professional educational approach. Ten health professional students from each simulation facility will be invited to be involved in one focus group following piloting of the project toolkit [N:80 students]. Description of the activities and methodology This project will address the above objectives through action research methodology as this enables a grass-roots level approach to respond to a 'real world' concern. One of the first output oriented activities will be to design and create a multi-platform web hub. This will be performed at the outset because it is integral to the development, implementation and hosting of the other two project outputs; simulation-based education cultural competence self-assessment tool and simulation-based education cultural competence toolkit. The multi-platform web hub will serve as a dynamic and interactive space hosting resources; international evidence-based current information and links to other resources relating to cultural competency and simulation-based education. It will offer free, open- access, online materials in a range of languages; initially English, Irish, Finnish and Slovenian. The second output oriented activity will be to design, pilot, adapt and implement the web based cultural competence self-assessment tool. During the second transnational project meeting the project team and other stakeholders will agree the content and process for the development of the self-assessment tool. In 2016, the Association of Simulation in Practice in Health published a standards framework and these will be used to organize and guide the development of the self-assessment tool. Cultural competence frameworks and models will be collated and key performance indicators will be extracted to integrate with the ASPIH standards to form the basis of the self-assessment tool. The third output oriented activity will be to design, pilot, adapt and implement the web based cultural competence tool kit. The process for this will be similar to the design, pilot, adaptation and implementation of the self-assessment tool. Once the tool-kit is ready the project team, supported by the Digital Media Working Academy will convert it to a web based version. Results and impact envisaged The results will be a suite of web based tools that will be available to health professionals and educators to use, to facilitate cultural competence. The consequence of culturally competent health professionals should be an increase in patient safety and benefit through improved communication and interactions. This could be formally tested later The project outputs will contribute to the knowledge base around simulation based education and cultural competence. Potential longer term benefits include the scope to extend the utility of the tools

Vesilaitokset etsivät luotettavia ja kustannustehokkaita ratkaisuja verkostonhallinnan digitalisaatioon. Monia lupaavia teknologioita on tunnistettu, mutta niitä ei kuitenkaan ole täysimääräisesti hyödynnetty käytännössä. Ratkaisujen yleistymiseksi tarvitaan teknologiademonstraatioita ja liiketoimintatapausten arviointia. Tämä projekti antaa teknologiaratkaisujen tarjoajille mahdollisuuden osoittaa digitaalisten ratkaisujen tuottama kokonaisarvo loppukäyttäjille, kuten vesilaitoksille, kaupungeille tai kiinteistöille. Toimijat voivat jatkossa muodostaa Nokian Operations Platform-operointialustan ympärille digitaalisen verkostonhallinnan ekosysteemin. Hankkeessa keskitytään erityisesti digitaalisen teknologian soveltamisen pullonkauloihin vesilaitoksissa, kuten kyberturvallisuus, eri osatoimittajien järjestelmien integrointi ja yhteensopivuus, mittareiden luotettavuus, toimivuusalueet ja mittausdatan jäljitettävyys. Tavoitteena on yhteistyössä kehittää avointa arkkitehtuuria ja standardointia. Hanke on ensi askel kohti Suomeen kehitettävää kansainvälistä älykkään vesienhallinnan tutkimus- ja kehityskeskusta, joka auttaa suomalaisia yrityksiä kehittämään kilpailukykyisiä tuotteita ja ratkaisuja ja siten kasvattamaan kansainvälistä liiketoimintaa. Yhteishanke keskittyy seuraaviin tutkimus- ja kehitysaloihin, joita seuraa pilotointi ja kehitettyjen ratkaisujen esittely: • Tietoturva digitaalisissa vesilaitostoiminnoissa • Järjestelmien integrointi ja yhteen toimivuus • Vesialan avoin ja yhteentoimiva teknologiaplatformi • Low Power Wide Area-tekniikan validointi ja vertailu • Reaaliaikainen veden laadun seuranta • Mittausdatan laadun ja jäljitettävyyden parantaminen ja kehittäminen. • 5G-verkko vesialan sovelluksissa Yhteishankkeen pitkän aikavälin tavoitteena on luoda maailmanlaajuisesti kilpailukykyinen kokonaisvaltainen ratkaisu skaalautuvaan, digitaaliseen ja tehokkaaseen verkostonhallintaan vesilaitoksille ja vesi-intensiiviselle teollisuudelle.

"<< Background >>Imagine a world in which engineers can interact with 3D models in an immersive environment, where doctors use artificial intelligence to create individually customized treatment plans, and where products wend their way independently through the production process. This is Industry 4.0, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, defined as the convergence of digital, biological and physical technologies disrupting manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare and all industries across the globe. Currently, education and training views Industry 4.0 technologies in segregated silos. Few programs, if any, align the interacting segments. Teaching is still aligned with the traditional engineering disciplines (mechanical, electrical, chemical, etc.) associated with Industry 2.0. To succeed in Industry 4.0, educators will be required to radically rethink their models, methods and offerings to meet the needs of industry and a rapidly changing society. Robotics, big data analysis and artificial intelligence are growing and ongoing changes in technology used in companies. This development is accelerating and these changes are challenging the skills and competences of young students but also those people who already are working in companies. The main goal of vocational education and training is to provide competent workers for companies and support individual opportunities to learn, study and develop personal path in life long continuous learning, reaching to career in working life. This includes new, innovative and flexible opportunities for students of all ages.Development of technology is also a opportunity for vocational education and training. New technology via remote and digital learning facilities offers larger possibilities to learn and study when studying is not bounded to location or time. This is one of the priorities in this project. The aim is to organize learning opportunities for students in vocational education and training by utilizing physical, modern learning equipment in partner organisations and creating virtual learning modules for students and teachers in VET. Thus every partner can provide larger selection of studies but do not have to own or invest on expensive and rapidly out of dating facilities.<< Objectives >>The concrete objective of the project is to create joint on-line learning course "" Sustainable smart manufacturing and solutions"". The course is consisted in 5 modules and every module has a special quality of the whole course.The course presents a new, innovative education model which is implemented as a flexible online course and can rapidly adopt immersive training using augmented and virtual reality. It is combining physical and virtual learning facilities so it broadly increase student access to emerging technologies via smart factories and other real-world settings. The bases of the course is collaboration with industry so it will help industry and education to create case studies and best practices for quick action and to prepare the workforce of the future.This project supports life long continues learning and provides upskilling support. Teachers and student are supported to become Industry 4.0 leaders and knowledge creators. Workers have an opportunity to transform from single-task traditional careers (mechanical engineer) to multi-track careers (engineer, data analyst, network administrator). Transnational collaboration; working in international teams and in the same virtual learning environment, will strengthen multicultural and language skills of students and teachers. New innovative on line course will also embrace the physical/digital duality and overlay a digital mindset on physical businesses. Workers will need specific technical digital skills contextualized and applied in physical environments. Companies will need to integrate physical and digital disciplines in the creation and scaling of new processes and products, and this project support cultural change at the executive level at companies of all sizes. This way the project helps small and medium enterprises change their cultures into learning organizations that are resilient to digital disruption.<< Implementation >>The project will be implemented by creating five learning modules combining real-life and virtual learning environment. All partners participate in developing these modules, bringing the needs and requirements of local, regional and national aspects. All the modules will be evaluated during the development process and together these modules unify a new, innovative on-line learning course "" Sustainable smart manufacturing and solutions"". Students of vocational education and in higher education will pilot these modules by case studies/worked- based project in transnational and multicultural teams leaded by student of higher education. There will be three transnational learning and teaching activities and the aim of those activities is to familiarize with partner organisations learning facilities while using them in virtual environment, evaluate and asses own pedagogical and didactic teaching and training methods and create new ways to utilize new virtual course. Students will participate training in partner organisations and teachers will be involved in teaching in the same organisation. Project is supported by local and global enterprises and they will be invited to dissemination events.<< Results >>As the results of this project there will be 5 new innovative learning modules in Industry 4.0 unifying the course """" Sustainable smart manufacturing and solutions"". This flexible online course is combining physical and virtual learning facilities, rapidly adopt immersive training using augmented and virtual reality. Thus this project supports accessibility for students to emerging technologies and specific technical digital skills. The project will also support life long continuous learning skills and attitude, enabling transition from single-task traditional careers (mechanical engineer) to multi-track careers (engineer, data analyst, network administrator). Student will also develop multicultural team work and language skills during their case studies/worked- based projects.Teachers involved will create new teaching model combining virtual learning in real-world environment. Teacher will have access to modern technologies and this will support teachers to become Industry 4.0 leaders and knowledge creators. Working in transnational project and teams will develop as well teachers' multicultural team work and language skills, supporting life-long learning skills and attitude in pedagogical methods. Companies in technology sector will connect industry and VET/HE to create case studies and best practices for quick action and to prepare the workforce of the future. This project will support small and medium enterprises change their cultures into learning organizations that are resilient to digital disruption, embrace the physical/digital duality, integrate physical and digital disciplines in the creation and scaling of new processes and products.The project engage learners, educators and organisations in the path to digital transformation. The project will support digital technologies for teaching and learning and to develop digital skills for all. Project is aiming at enhancing digital skills and competence development at all levels of society and for students, job seekers and workers as well as enterprises."

To promote the best nursing practices-related to healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) prevention and control and antimicrobial (AM) stewardship, the PrevInf project consortium idealised the PrevInf project, which aims to improve Asia’s nursing students’ competences related to HAIs prevention and control and AM stewardship. To fill this main objective, the PrevInf consortium will develop the nursing curricula of the Asian partner higher education institutions (HEIs), in the scope of HAIs prevention and control and AM stewardship, through the evaluation of the current learning objectives, curriculum contents, educational methods, and available tools, as well as the involvement of relevant stakeholders (students, teachers, clinical nurses) in an active design process to develop the PrevInf Model. This pedagogical model, adapted to the reality of each participating country, will consist of the best HAIs prevention and control practices based on the latest evidence, as well as practice-based Simulation Scenarios, developed for nursing students and teachers as an innovative educational tool. Additionally, the PrevInf Model will introduce into its premises the requirement to develop the entrepreneurial spirit of young nursing students, enhancing their role in designing innovative solutions that respond to the societal challenge that is HAIs prevention and control and AM stewardship in Asia. The PrevInf Model and Simulation Scenarios will be compiled into a digital book, the PrevInf E-book, containing the latest guidelines of the good HAIs prevention and control and AM stewardship practices, and the InovSafeCare community will be expanded to sustainably disseminate the PrevInf project’ outputs. This proposed capacity-building approach will contribute to the modernisation and internationalisation of the Asian partner HEIs, and the promotion and effective adherence to the good practices-related to HAIs prevention and control in Asia.