Human Empowerment, Skills and Capabilities
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.
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
- TUNTO2 report (in Finnish) has been published and you can read it
- The article on the concept of emotional agency at work has been published in Vocations and Learning
- H枚kk盲, P. V盲h盲santanen, K., & Ik盲valko, 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 .
- H枚kk盲, P. K., R盲ikk枚nen, E., Ik盲valko, H., Paloniemi, S., & V盲h盲santanen, K. (2022). Emotional Agency at Work: The Development and Validation of a Measure. In Frontiers in Education (p. 434). Frontiers.
Contact person: Heini Ik盲valko, heini.ikavalko@aalto.fi
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鈥檚 trainings are now available: 鈥淓nhancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace鈥 - MOOC course opens in October 2024. Read more here.
Co-funded by: the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
For more information:
Contact person: Heini Ik盲valko, heini.ikavalko@aalto.fi
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 Ik盲valko, heini.ikavalko@aalto.fi
Funded by: Academy of Finland
Partners: Aalto University Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tampere University Faculty of Information Technology and Communications