Aalto-yliopiston ja Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulun yhteinen "GreenSense"-projekti kehittää konseptia innovatiivisista ja kestävistä antureista dementiaa sairastavien iäkkäiden hyvinvoinnin tueksi. Hanke keskittyy erityisesti pehmeisiin, puettaviin paine- ja lämpötila-antureihin, jotka seuraavat käyttäjän fyysisiä toimintoja ja terveyttä reaaliaikaisesti. Anturit ovat keveitä ja huomaamattomia käyttää arjessa, ja ne voidaan sijoittaa iholle tai integroida esimerkiksi vaatteisiin.\ \ Projektin tavoitteena on parantaa dementiaa sairastavien ikääntyneiden hoidon laatua ja turvallisuutta mahdollistamalla nopeammat interventiot sairauksien ja loukkaantumisten ehkäisemiseksi. Tämä voi vähentää omaishoitajien kuormitusta ja syntyviä kustannuksia sekä auttaa perheenjäseniä ja hoivapalvelujen tarjoajia optimoimaan hoitoa reaaliaikaisten terveystietojen avulla. Anturit perustuvat kestävään teknologiaan, ja ne valmistetaan ympäristöystävällisistä, biohajoavista materiaaleista.\ \ ”GreenSense”-projekti vastaa kasvavaan tarpeeseen jatkuvasta terveysseurannasta, erityisesti kotona tapahtuvassa dementiaa sairastavan ikääntyneen hoivassa. Teknologian avulla voidaan toimia ennakoivasti ja tehostaa resurssien käyttöä. Konseptin todentamisvaiheessa saatavien tulosten perusteella ratkaisu voidaan myöhemmin kaupallistaa ja soveltaa laajemmin kansainvälisesti.

The European submarine networks are vital critical infrastructure for the EU member states. This submarine cable and pipeline network is crucial for the European society and any failure or damage to it could potentially have an enormous effect on the societies. Due to the rapidly evolving threat and geopolitical landscape, especially with incidents like the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas infrastructure, organizations overseeing critical infrastructure face significant challenges. They must handle intentional threats while also grappling with growing problems caused by accidental and natural factors as well as climate change. These issues can worsen the effects of deliberate actions. To address these challenges effectively, it is crucial for these entities to implement resilience-enhancing measures. The aim of VIGIMARE is to strengthen the resilience of Critical Infrastructure operators against threats to the European submarine critical infrastructure by developing, testing and evaluating an innovative solution to enhance security and reduce risks of physical and cyber-attacks on submarine cables and pipelines. This will be accomplished by 1) mapping submarine systems, surveying cables and landing stations, and assessing vulnerabilities in the European submarine critical infrastructure network, 2) develop an automated threat detection approach, creating a real-time shared awareness of the surface above the submarine infrastructure to promptly indicate incidents to both critical infrastructure owners and member states authorities. By integrating a comprehensive resilience ecosystem with real incidents at sea, the project seeks to 3) identify early warning signals, support analysis, and pinpoint potential response activities to address physical, cyber and hybrid threats. The result will be enhanced resilience for submarine critical infrastructure owners, supporting authorities to enforce the CER and NIS2 directives implementation in the EU member states.

The European Union (EU) is increasingly affected and challenged by geopolitical changes, increasing impact of conflict on civilians, globalized impact of local conflicts, technological developments and budgetary constraints challenges the Radicalization, the growing potential for individuals to create large security threats and transnational criminality further complicates the security landscape of EU missions. With global interconnectedness, the repercussions of outside conflict are also seen within the EU, and may lead to societal and security challenges within the EU. The key issue for the EU is how to improve its conflict response capabilities to create more lasting impact on the ground and to use limited resources more effectively. Comprehensive EU-security within the EU emphasizes the need for civil-military synergies, which correspond more closely to challenges on the ground and the incorporation of very different perspectives, priorities and operational cultures. The IECEU–project analyses and assesses best practices and lessons learned with a view to enhance the civilian conflict prevention and peace building capabilities of EU with a catalogue of practices, new solutions and approaches. It will seek to find out how to increase the interoperability of resources in the crisis management and peace building and what the potential for pooling and sharing of EU capabilities and technologies is. The main goals of the IECEU -project are: 1) Analysing and assessing the current situation of on-going and past missions and operations 2) Learning from lessons provided by these missions and assessing the different options 3) Providing new solutions, approaches and recommendations for EU to guarantee long-term stability

The rapid change in the global operating environment, the complexity of decision-making and the role of social media have challenged the operating practices of traditional crisis preparedness and security of supply. In a complex knowledge society the importance of information resilience has increased. Reliable and evidence-based information lays the foundation for the continuity and resilience of societal activities. The research project examines the state of information resilience, the functioning of the Governments decision-making and regulatory systems, and the importance of the collective agency of civil society. The study also analyzes disinformation that spreads through social media and assesses how to combat it. The multidisciplinary project outlines a new kind of participatory and adaptive national preparedness system in which decision-makers, civil society and industry create situational awareness and work together to advance crisis preparedness goals objectives.