The spearhead and major innovation programmes

Future-focused challenges central to Finland’s economy and society have been chosen as topics for the spearhead and innovation programmes. VTT has the potential for resolving these challenges through finding significant technological solutions and producing genuine innovations. Research impacts are increased by directing innovative research to commercially exploitable focus areas. Customers and research partners are included in the innovation process at an early stage.

Spearhead programmes:
GWW - Green Solutions for Water and Waste
Bioeconomy
Transformation
Productivity Leap with Internet of Things (IoT)
Smart
Mobility Integrated with Low Carbon Energy

Major innovation programmes:
High-performance microsystems
Intelligent
energy grids
Multiscale Design
Arctic and Cold Climate
Solutions
Cognitive Communications for Critical Infrastructures
Personalised
Health and Wellbeing
Human Driven Design – “Design for Life”
Safe
and Sustainable Nuclear Energy
Sensing Solutions
Additional information

Anne-Christine Ritschkoff
Executive Vice President, Strategic Research
+358 20 722 5546
