Projects
The Business Intelligence Center trains organizations in searching, analyzing and exploiting data and information for better decision-making and more profitable business actions. The work is done by utilizing regional, national and international as well as private project funding opportunities.
Projects in the Business Intelligence Center
The VauhtiData implementation project addresses the challenges of data utilisation in the manufacturing industry through data analytics and visualisation. The background to this is the understanding of the needs, challenges and bottlenecks in the use of data analytics in companies, which was developed in the preparatory project.
The project is carried out in cooperation with JAMK, SeAMK and SAMK and involves seven manufacturing companies that provide their own data for developing and testing exploitation methods. The aim is both to develop the partners' own expertise and to create processes and techniques that can be used by other manufacturing companies in the region to exploit data.
Duration: 1.10.2023 – 30.9.2025
Funding: Euroopan aluekehitysrahasto (EAKR)
Project manager: Mikko Pakkasela, mikko.pakkasela@samk.fi
The objectives of the Knowledge Management Pathfinder project are to raise data awareness and encourage SMEs to apply best practices in data use in their business, and to create close cooperation between the Business Intelligence Center BIC and businesses and industry.
The project aims to increase the SME sector's awareness and competence in data management and the use of data analytics, and to encourage SMEs to develop their own data management through workshops and coaching.
Funding: EAKR 2021-2027
Duration: 1.9.2023-31.8.2025
Project manager: Susan Råberg-Vikkula susan.raberg-vikkula@samk.fi
More information from the project website.
SAMK helps Finnish companies to find new markets. The target country for this project is Azerbaijan. The EU is Azerbaijan's main trading partner. Trade between the two regions is growing and diplomatic relations are good. Greentech, education, agricultural products, etc. are in particular demand in Azerbaijan.
In a three-year project, we are helping 15 of our Finnish business partners towards Azerbaijan. The partner companies from the Latvian Chamber of Commerce, the project's lead organisation, and our other main partner, the Estonian Chamber of Commerce, will join us on the trip.
The main activities will be six trade missions to the destination country and bringing interested partners from there to visit our countries and our companies. We also provide training, market surveys and business consultancy.
Funding: Interreg Central Baltic Programme
Duration: 1.3.2023–28.2.2026
Project Manager: Mikko Lehtonen, mikko.lehtonen@samk.fi
Satakunta University of Applied Sciences has started a new cooperation project with Kajaani University of Applied Sciences and Marketing Finland.
- MFamk offers companies an agile opportunity to participate in the design and implementation of digital marketing and sales training.
- The project will produce new solutions to develop companies' marketing and sales skills.
- The training is tailored directly to the needs of companies. The training will help companies to be better prepared to meet the current challenges of digital business.
- The new pedagogical model will provide fast, agile and tailored training in digital skills to help companies improve their business performance.
- The project will create a new tripartite model of cooperation between business, universities and a network of experts.
Duration: 1.2.2024-20.6.2026
Funding: Co-funded by the European Union.
Project Manager SAMK: Johanna Rastas-Tuominen johanna.rastas-tuominen@samk.fi
For further information and registration, please visit the project website. (kamk.fi)
Should I stay or should I go – Employment of international degree students in the Satakunta region
The Should I stay or should I go project aims at enhancing the employment of international workforce in the Satakunta region. Targeted measures are carried out to develop the recruitment skills of employers in the region and the job search skills of international degree students. The aim is to increase the number of recruitments and thus increase the number of international students staying in Satakunta after graduation.
With the help of the project measures, SAMK’s international degree students will have the opportunity to integrate into the region's businesses and communities already during their studies. Businesses in Satakunta will in turn gain skilled workforce which has an understanding of Finnish working conditions and valuable international skills, as well.
The project will make use of the Youragent.fi recruitment and job search service developed for employers and foreign students in the region by SAMK. The final goal of the project is to provide all educational organizations of the Satakunta region with a ready-made service for job-seeking graduates.
Funding: Supporting sustainable growth and vitality in the regions (AKKE funding), Satakunta
Duration: 1.11.2022 – 31.12.2024
Project Manager: Susan Råberg-Vikkula, susan.råberg-vikkula@samk.fi
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Completed projects
Should I stay or should I go – Employment of international degree students in the Satakunta region
The Should I stay or should I go project aimed at enhancing the employment of international workforce in the Satakunta region. Targeted measures were carried out to develop the recruitment skills of employers in the region and the job search skills of international degree students. The aim was to increase the number of recruitments and thus increase the number of international students staying in Satakunta after graduation.
With the help of the project measures, SAMK’s international degree students had the opportunity to integrate into the region's businesses and communities already during their studies. Businesses in Satakunta in turn gained skilled workforce which had an understanding of Finnish working conditions and valuable international skills, as well.
The project made use of the Youragent.fi recruitment and job search service developed for employers and foreign students in the region by SAMK. The final goal of the project was to provide all educational organizations of the Satakunta region with a ready-made service for job-seeking graduates.
Funding: Supporting sustainable growth and vitality in the regions (AKKE funding), Satakunta
Duration: 1.11.2022 – 31.12.2024
Project Manager: Susan Råberg-Vikkula, susan.råberg-vikkula@samk.fi
More information from the project website.
Digital Academy 2.0
The Digital Academy 2.0 project aimed to support the digitalisation development of cities through the Digital Academy Training Concept developed by SAMK.
Cities and the public sector as a whole often struggle with the challenges of digitalisation. Everyone knows that functions and services needs to be modernised and new systems needs to be introduced at an ever-increasing pace. However, only few cities have the skills to make this digital transformation happen.
The idea behind the Digital Academy 2.0 project is to support cities in implementing their own digitalisation projects, and to train city professionals in a networked way to implement digital transformation projects.
The project was funded by the Ministry of State Treasury. The City of Pori was the project coordinator and the other cities involved the project are Jämsä, Porvoo and Seinäjoki. The training activities were produced in cooperation between Satakunta University of Applied Sciences and Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences. The project started in autumn 2022 and ended in october 2024.
Duration: 1.8.2022 – 31.10.2024
Funding: Valtiovarainministeriö
Project Manager: Hanna Kiviranta, hanna.kiviranta@samk.fi
MYRSKY
Myrsky was a joint venture among 22 Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences. The goal was to increase the resilience of private companies and entrepreneurs in the ever-changing world. The venture increased overall competences regarding the green transition and digitalization. The venture offered companies educational content and workshops, which could be completed regardless of time and place.
Through Myrsky, Satakunta University of Applied Sciences made its expertise available to the companies in Satakunta and allover Finland. SAMK provided content especially in the fields of knowledge management, change management and the development of expert thinking.
Myrsky, was a way to increase the capabilities of companies and their personnel to succeed in the constantly changing business environment. The capabilities boosted by Myrsky-venture were modern leadership, networking skills and the courage to make a change etc. In addition to educational content, Myrsky supported and guided companies to apply the best learned practices as part of their business processes.
Funding: Keski-Suomen elinkeino-, liikenne- ja ympäristökeskus
Duration: 1.11.2022 – 31.12.2023
Project manager: Johanna Lainio, johanna.2.lainio@samk.fi
Knowledge management as a success factor for tourism in the Satakunta region
The aim of the project Knowledge management as a success factor for tourism in the Satakunta region (in Finnish: Tiedolla johtaminen matkailun menestystekijäksi Karhuseudun alueella) was to produce new know-how and new ways of utilising the existing business intelligence (BI) in the development and decision-making of tourism companies and destinations in the Satakunta region. The project utilised knowledge management tools to create keys to success for tourism companies and destinations in the region, concerning both the national and international tourism market in the especially challenging Covid-19 situation.
Digikyvykäs Satakunta
The Digikyvykäs Satakunta project build a set of indicators that served as a tool for companies to assess their level of digital maturity as independently as possible.
To support the construction of this digital maturity tool, "digital workshops" were organised for companies in Satakunta to test the tool and to discuss issues related to their digitalisation procedures. The aim of the workshops were both to gather information from businesses and to support them in meeting the challenges of digitalisation.
Funding: Regional Development Fund (Satakunta)
Duration: 1.4.2021 – 30.6.2023
Project manager: Heikki Haaparanta, heikki.haaparanta@samk.fi
Data Lake
Data Lake – Utilizing clinical data pool in clinical decision-making and service supply – worked for creating an RDI testbed called Data Lake Innovation Testbed for Future Hospitals.
Funding: The Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland
Duration: 1.11.2020 – 31.5.2023
The AI is produced in cooperation with the RoboAI research and development center.
eCommerce 2.0
The purpose of the eCommerce 2.0 project was to help the SMEs in Satakunta region to overcome the corona crisis with developing their brick-and-mortar stores and online sales into effective multi-channel retail. The project also aimed to improve the well-being and competitiveness of companies by increasing know-how and networking.
The project was set to increase the capacity, competence and ability of SMEs and their staff to take advantage of the rapidly changing operating environment. Companies were provided with training, counseling, guidance and peer learning.
Funding: ESR 2014-2020 (17 %)
Duration: 1.9.2021 – 30.4.2023
Digipioneers
The participants of Digipioneers were provided new skills for identifying, describing and practically developing development targets related to companies' business, recognizing the possibilities of new technology. The underlying idea was to provide more development expertise where practical processes are best known at the everyday level and to provide companies with the tools for future business development.
The project produced open material, the most important of which is the Digipioneer’s Guide.
Funding: ESR 2014-2020 (17 %)
Duration: 1.9.2021 – 31.3.2023
Further information on the project website.
VauhtiData
Data to boost business in manufacturing SMEs, preparatory project – VauhtiData
The project brought together the in-depth knowledge of the needs, challenges and bottlenecks of data analytics in manufacturing companies that has been accumulated over the past five years from previous projects at JAMK, SAMK and SeAMK.
The project was a preparatory project and it aimed to form a better understanding of the state of data utilization in companies in the regions' manufacturing industry.
The main goal of this project was to produce a vision of development entities in SMEs and for the project actors themselves, but also for the companies of the manufacturing industry in the regions.
The goal of the project was to achieve e.g. the following concrete results.
- A new national data analytics cooperation consortium between three universities.
- Increasing the understanding of the companies participating in the preparatory project about the possibilities of digitization and the data economy, both in generating new business and in managing the company's own operations
- A concrete explanation of what kind of data analytics product and service development pilots the potential project companies mentioned above would like to implement in the actual project.
Duration: 1.7.2022 – 31.3.2023
Funding: European Regional Development Fund
Project manager: Juha Stenfors, juha.stenfors@samk.fi
Satakunta Digi Academy
Digitization is not just an IT reform, it is a rapid change in operations involving all operational processes. In a rapidly changing environment, the challenges for organizations are to find factors that understand the potential of new technology, master their own business processes, and are able to complete the development projects required for change. The aim is to create the City of Pori's personnel with their own know-how, which will enable the city to meet the demands of a digitalizing world more efficiently and agilely.
Funding: Custom training for the City of Pori
Duration: 1.1.2022 – 31.12.2022
Software robotics into use
The aim of the project is to address the challenges that relate to the identification of applications and the economic and operational evaluation of applications in Robotic Process Automation (RPA). The project will explore both the technical possibilities of RPA and create an operating model for companies that can be used to assess the financial impact of automation solutions and facilitate the implementation of RPA solutions in companies.
Funding: Regional Development Fund (Satakunta)
Duration: 1.4.2021 – 30.6.2022
