Projects

Externally funded projects are essential for our research group. We have been leading and participating in several international research, development, and capacity building projects funded from various EU frameworks (Horizon 2020, Erasmus+, ESF, ERDF), as well as by Academy of Finland, Business Finland (former TEKES), Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and several other funding institutions and mechanisms.

In addition to institutionally funded external projects, our researchers have been granted with individual working grants for PhD studies or post-doc research periods by various foundations and agencies (for example Finnish Cultural Foundation working grants, EDUFI Fellowships, Emil Aaltonen Foundation grants).

Current external funding

• Generation AI – The Generation AI project provides a solid foundation for educating the “Generation AI” on the defining technology of their era: Its mechanisms, opportunities, and dynamics — but also its weaknesses, biases, and risks, and how it can be used to discriminate, polarize, create insecurity, and break trust (Research Council of Finland, 2022-2028)
• SIMOnS – The SIMOns project aims to promote civic participation and critical thinking through digital technologies (Erasmus+ KA2 Cooperation Partnerships, 2023-2026)
• NordRAI – The NordRAI project investigates how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is transforming collaborative learning and teaching in higher education across the Nordic region (NordForsk, 2026-2028)
• AI-DOC – The Finnish Doctoral Program Network in Artificial Intelligence (AI-DOC) is a world-class PhD program with quality supervision, mobility, and multi-disciplinarity as integral parts (Ministry of Education, 2024-2028)
• ENDGAME – ENDGAME is an innovative European project aimed at cultivating critical thinking and responsible digital citizenship among European youth through educational escape rooms that simulate real-life scenarios of information consumption (Creative Europe, 2025-2027)

Past external funding (since 2014)

• ROBOSTEAMSEN – The RoboSteamsen project intends to understand disabled students needs and adapting robotics and active learning methodologies to their different disabilities in order to personalise their learning (Erasmus+ KA Coopertation partnership, 2023 – 2025)
• ECALFOR – Evaluation of Teacher Training in Latin America and the Caribbean. Guarantee Of The Quality Of Education Degrees (Erasmus+ KA2 Capacity Building for Higher Education, 2021 – 2024)
• DANUBE – Development of new andragogical diagnostic approaches and interventions of the adult docility phenomenon (Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnerships, Erasmus+ KA2, 2020 – 2023)
• ENVISION_2027 – European Network for Virtual lab & Interactive SImulated ONline learning 2027 (Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnerships, 2021 – 2023)
• TRUE – Transparency of Learning Outcomes through Blockchain Technology (Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnerships, 2020 – 2023)
• Vauhtia uralle (European Social Fund, 2019 – 2022)
• RoboSTEAM – Integrating STEAM and Computational Thinking Development by Using Robotics and Physical Devices (Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnerships, 2019 – 2021)
• Joensuu VR Lab (European Regional Development Fund, 2018 – 2020)
• eCraft2Learn – Digital Fabrication and Maker Movement in Education: Making Computer-supported Artefacts from Scratch (Horizon 2020, 2017 – 2018)
• ICT4EEDU – Strengthening ICT in Education in Eritrea (HEI-ICI, Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2015 – 2018)
• TACCLE3  –  Coding (Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnerships, 2015 – 2017)
• CONSTRUIT! – Making construals as a new digital skill for creating interactive open educational resources (Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnerships, 2014-2017)