Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR)

Human Empowerment, Skills and Capabilities

CKIR's projects under this theme are designed to address the multifaceted aspects of human perspectives of innovation management and implementation. By understanding emotions and human empowerment these projects aim to provide insights and solutions that enhance individual and organizational capabilities. The goal is to uncover strategies for creating an organizational environment that drives learning and innovation.
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Human skills, learning, and empowerment are pivotal to navigating the challenges and opportunities of the modern world. This theme focuses on developing a deeper understanding of the role of emotions,  skills required by the technological and societal transformation,  and how empowerment can be achieved in various contexts. 

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TUNTO2

The project studies strategy implementation through exploring emotional agency and emotional climate. The project continues the development of the concept emotional agency and studies it in strategy implementation. The project is conducted in an intervention context, where the members of the participating organizations are supported by an emotion-focused intervention.

  • TUNTO2 blog (in Finnish) has been published and you can find it here
  • TUNTO2 report (in Finnish) has been published and you can read it here.
  • The article on the concept of emotional agency at work has been published in Vocations and Learning https://rdcu.be/cY3jo
    • Hökkä, P. Vähäsantanen, K., & Ikävalko, H. (2022). An integrative approach on emotional agency at work. Vocations and Learning
  • The article on developing and validating an emotional agency measure has been published in Frontiers in Education.
    • Hökkä, P. K., Räikkönen, E., Ikävalko, H., Paloniemi, S., & Vähäsantanen, K. (2022). Emotional Agency at Work: The Development and Validation of a Measure. In Frontiers in Education (p. 434). Frontiers.

Contact person: Heini Ikävalko, [email protected]

Diversity

EDIFY

The EDIFY-EDU project addresses the skills gap in the sector of management education with regard to competencies in equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), which are needed more and more in a complex and fluid society.

The project will facilitate the acquisition of EDI competencies and transversal skills for management students and managers in business (in particular targeting small and medium-sized companies), in order to respond to the societal transformation by setting up a system for skill assessment, learning offer, and validation and recognition. The project involves 12 research and project organizations from Ireland, Italy, Austria, Greece, Germany, and Finland.

EDIFY-EDU project’s trainings are now available: “Enhancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace” - MOOC course opens in October 2024. Read more here.

Co-funded by: the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union

For more information: https://www.edifyeduproject.eu/

Contact person: Heini Ikävalko, [email protected]

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AI-ROT

AI-ROT proposes a comprehensive AI enhanced optimization of production lines deploying rotating machinery. A variety of AI-based methods is applied, ranging from exact representation of knowledge to highly adaptive machine/deep learning primitives. 

As a result, valuable feedback for traditional engineering processes, such as design, operation and maintenance of rotation machinery, is received.

Principal investigator: Heini Ikävalko, [email protected]

Funded by: Academy of Finland

Partners: Aalto University Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tampere University Faculty of Information Technology and Communications

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