Strategic Centres for Science, Technology and Innovation

The Academy of Finland contributes to the operation of the Strategic Centres for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTIs) by funding the high-level research within them that is carried out at universities and research institutes. All the Academy’s funding instruments are available to support research at the CSTIs and in their thematic fields. Information on funding opportunities is available on the Academy’s website in the section ‘For researchers’.

In the CSTIs, top-quality research teams and units work together with companies that apply their research results. The virtual research organisations of the CSTIs carry out the research plans jointly agreed between the companies and the research units. CSTIs are multidisciplinary and involve different sectors of industry, and they are application-driven.

Background to CSTIs
Operational CSTIs
Planned CSTIs
The Academy and CSTIs

The Academy works together with Tekes. In addition to the Strategic Centres for Science, Technology and Innovation, thirteen national Clusters of Expertise are also being set up in Finland, within the administrative sphere of the Ministry of Employment and the Economy.

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Tekes:

Academy of Finland

Contact information at the Academy:

Energy and the environment:

  • Senior Science Adviser Leila Häkkinen, tel. +358 (0)9 7748 8288 
  • Programme Manager Saila Karvinen, tel. +358 (0)9 7748 8335

Metal products and mechanical engineering:

  • Senior Science Adviser Ritva Taurio, tel. +358 (0)9 7748 8384

The forest cluster:

  • Science Adviser Kati Lüthje, tel. +358 (0)9 774 881

Health and well-being:

  • Mikael Fogelholm, Director, Health Research Unit, tel. +358 (0)9 7748 8328

Information and communication industry and services:

  • Science Adviser Anu Juslin, tel. +358 (0)9 7748 8442

Built environment:

  • Science Adviser Maaria Lehtinen, tel. +358 (0)9 7748 848

Email addresses are firstname.lastname(at)aka.fi

Questions and feedback

Information on the Clusters

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