Fields of Interests

By considering co-operation fields with UCPori and Mittuniversitetet in Sweden the following areas have come up.

Project actions can in the beginning include cooperation in research (forskning), education (utbildning), collaboration (samverkan) and student activities.


- Research project

The research focuses on information systems managements in small and medium size companies. In particular, what are the current practices in managing customer information, and in what way could these practices be improved. The research is in progress according to planned timetable (attached)

The practical benefits of the research are related to showing how to use the potential of information technology (for example, through benchmarking practices in companies in Sweden and Finland). The theoretical results will published in scientific conferences (paper titled “The Role of Information Systems in Information Management: The Challenges Facing SME’s “ on research in progress has been sent to IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2009, 17 – 23 June, and later there will be more publications). There will also be doctoral students involved in the research project. The professors have planned to initiate a cooperative working method in tutoring and mentoring the doctoral students (intensive sessions in Finland and Sweden).


- Staff/teacher exchanges
HR-teacher (Gunnar Augustsson) to SAMK/UCPori for a week in spring 2009. Plans for curricula cooperation between correspondent degree programmes.

- HR-theme teacher cooperation; plan to integrate cities of Pori & Sundsvall in the R&D activities of this theme.

- Enterprise Accelerator, student project/teacher/staff visit (3 persons +students) to Pori in spring 2009. This is ideal timing for MIUN to examine the experience that has been built up in Finland prior to the start of their “Innovation Lab” project.

- Faculty of Social and Health Care and faculty of technology (SAMK) being integrated into the project in spring 2009 incl. faculty exchanges.

- Student projects started in the Spring 2009; SAMK / MIUN (MP3 part-project)

- Heat Pumps Installers (Bengt Sandström) course co-operation. MIUN has been involved with the European Association of Heat Pump Installers and has been running courses since the 90s. Recently they have developed a distance course for “European Certified Heat Pump Installer" which meets the requirements of COM(2008) 19 – the European directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources, and which requires the training and certification of heat pump installers.

- Co-operation in recruiting of students to Technology subjects in spring 2009

- Mentoring co-operation for doctoral students (led by docent Jari Palomäki, UCPori) starting in spring 2009

- Project plan from the faculty of technology, Rauma, students involved in making own reports/thesis (visit to Västernorrland in spring 2009)

UniPlatform conference in Sundsvall 9.-10.2.2009