DiversHUBility Tampere Team

TAU

DiversHUBIlity Tampere Team Overview

Finland:

  • A world leader in addressing inclusion challenges.

Tampere University:

  • The second largest higher education institution in Finland
  • Committed to pursue cutting-edge scholarly and societally impactful endeavours
  • A highly ambitious research environment that has defined its core focus areas as “human potential unlimited”
  • 21 000 students and 4 200 staff members pursuing scientific research and studies in technology, health, and society across 165 study programmes
  • 45 of such programmes studies are in English
  • A global digital campus is in place as well to support studies despite geographical boundaries

TAU scholarship at the Faculty of Education and Culture:

  • Emphasis on new forms of engagement in public and private sectors of society
  • A strong tradition of research and development in the fields of inclusion, diversity and entrepreneurial initiatives.

TAU DiversHUBility Partnership:

  • Carried out by the transdisciplinary research team RESET (Research Engagement for Sustainable and Equitable Transformations)
  • Led by Professor Annalisa Sannino
  • RESET team members: MA Hien Dihn, Emeritus Professor Yrjö Engeström, Prost-Doctoral Researcher Esa Jokinen and Senior Researcher Hannele Kerosuo.

RESET work and its contribution to DiversHUBility:

  • Development and use of conceptual tools and formative intervention methods from cultural-historical activity theory
  • Focus on addressing acute challenges of societal renewal
  • Research and expertise on work-related collective learning and design of innovations targeted to vulnerable populations.

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