Projects and experience
Our project work brings organisations together around societal and environmental challenges, connecting innovation with practical needs in technology, education and sustainability.
Explore InAI’s projects and the team’s international experience in developing skills, exchanging knowledge and testing new approaches through collaboration.
GreenADeN
Green Skills Adaptation and Development for Nordic Regions
GreenADeN connects green skills, digital innovation and collaboration across Nordic and Baltic communities. Its programme brings together learning activities, hackathons and knowledge exchange around climate challenges and the green transition.
Project period: June 2023–October 2024. Funding programme: Nordic Council of Ministers, Prosperous Future. Partners: InAI, Peipsi CTC, Húsavík Academic Center and Interfolk.
InAI’s responsibilities in the published work plan include project coordination and hackathon activities.
Föreningsdörren — opening doors to community participation
Initiative under development
Föreningsdörren aims to connect Swedish-speaking associations in Finland with people from other language and cultural backgrounds. Through shared activities and encounters, the project seeks to make association life more accessible, encourage participation in Finland-Swedish community life and create opportunities for mutual learning.
The initiative is being developed to bring associations and potential participants together to build connections across language communities. It also aims to support integration in Finland through opportunities to practise Swedish, discover local activities and develop a sense of belonging.
The planned pilot combines facilitated online meetings, visits to associations’ regular activities and a shared digital participant channel. The aim is to test a repeatable model in which participant feedback helps associations improve how they welcome new people. The model and practical materials are intended to be published openly online.
Earlier international project experience
The following projects were undertaken by members of the InAI team, including projects completed before InAI was established.
CroBoDDIT
Cross-border collaboration on disruptive information technologies. South-East Finland–Russia ENI CBC, 2019–2022.
bIoTope
An open innovation ecosystem for connected smart objects. Horizon 2020, Grant agreement ID: 688203, 2016–2018.
LiLaCC
Living-laboratory approaches to climate change. Erasmus+ CBHE, 2020–2023.
KITENPI
IT education, networking, partnership and innovation (KO259). Kolarctic ENPI CBC, 2011–2014.
DIT4BEARs
Disruptive information technologies in the Barents Euro-Arctic region. Kolarctic CBC, 2020–2022.
CBPI
Cross-border collaboration in photonics. South-East Finland–Russia ENPI CBC, 2012–2014.
AGreeDA
Learning about Green Deal adaptation in the Arctic. Erasmus Jean Monnet Module, 2022–2024.
3CNet
Climate change cooperation and networking, 2022–2023.
MyFIRE
Experimental facilities and research for the future internet. FP7 EU Project, 2010–2012.