Funded research

Projects that move the system.

From national funding-council programmes to European consortia, each project turns data into decisions for health and social care professionals, managers and policymakers.

OPTIMISE

Optimising performance through integrated management and information solutions in social and health ecosystems

Health and social care organisations generate vast clinical, operational and personnel data, but use very little of it. OPTIMISE studies how data and AI can strengthen management, decision-making and service performance, for safer, more sustainable and more cost-effective care.

Data-driven management AI Social & health ecosystems

Partners
Wellbeing Services County of North Savo (coordinator)

Research Council of Finland (Academy of Finland) 2026–2028 Project site ↗

PROFIT

PRocedure Optimization and data-driven eFficiency Improvement in healthcare environmenTs

A European industry–academia consortium using AI to lighten clinician workload and improve care through three use cases: ambient listening to ease documentation, machine-learning-based personalised care pathways, and digital home services for virtual care monitoring.

Ambient AI Care pathways Efficiency

Partners
18-partner EU consortium, VTT, Turku UAS, Solita, Oiva Health, Mediconsult (FI) with Belgian & Portuguese partners

ITEA 4 · Business Finland 2024–2027 Project site ↗

AGILE

Intelligent Leadership Interventions for Promoting Workforce Wellbeing

Social and health care professionals face heavy workloads under constant change. AGILE develops and evaluates evidence-based leadership interventions, piloted across two Finnish welfare counties, that measurably improve workforce well-being. Leadership as a working-life intervention, not an afterthought.

Leadership Workforce well-being Welfare areas

Partners
Wellbeing Services Counties of North Savo & Southwest Finland

Finnish Work Environment Fund 2025–2026 Project site ↗

INFORM

Impactful and cost-effective nursing care: Intelligent information management solutions to support first-line supervisors' leadership

Impactful and cost-effective nursing care needs well-supported first-line supervisors. This project develops intelligent information management solutions that give supervisors timely, usable views of their units, supporting daily leadership decisions where care actually happens.

Decision support First-line leadership Information management

State research funding (VTR) 2025–2027

More funded projects

FederatedHealth Nordic collaboration on federated learning: developing AI on health data without moving the data, governance, common data models and human networks included. Nordic Innovation · 2023–2025
Ambient Voice Technologies With UK partners: how should ambient voice technologies for clinical documentation be evaluated responsibly before they reach NHS care? Responsible AI UK (RAi UK) · 2026
Multimodal AI for Healthcare How can multimodal AI transform healthcare while navigating operational, privacy and ethical challenges? A Columbia University collaboration. Columbia University Interdisciplinary Seed Grant · 2025–2026
AI-Driven Innovations in Nursing A U.S.–Finland partnership advancing multimodal data analysis to drive AI innovation in nursing. Elaine Larson Global Development Fund · 2025–2026
Leadership research, Southwest Finland Building leadership research, training and practice across the Wellbeing Services County of Southwest Finland. Eschnerska Frilasarettet sr. · 2023–2028
Embedding Nursing Expertise in AI An international workshop series ensuring nursing expertise shapes how AI-based health technologies are designed and built. Brocher Foundation (international workshops) · 2023–2025
EMS occupational safety Preventing client violence and promoting occupational safety for paramedics in emergency medical services. Finnish Work Environment Fund · 2024–2026
FAPI (Finland–Africa) A Finland–Africa platform building innovation partnerships in health and education. Ministry of Education and Culture · 2022–2023
Interdisciplinary leadership education Developing continuous, interdisciplinary leadership education for social and health services. University of Turku (strategic funding) · 2021–2024
SotE information system impact How does a new social and health services information system change staff work and care processes? Finnish Nursing Education Foundation sr. · 2020

Collaboration These projects run with partners across universities, hospitals, welfare counties and industry, and with collaborators worldwide: Finland and the Nordics, across Europe, North America, Japan and Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand, and beyond. If your organisation works on similar questions, get in touch.