New technologies and digitalisation

New technologies and digitalisation is one of the five multidisciplinary themes of the University of Turku. This theme focuses on developing technologies and digital solutions as well as understanding and managing their impact.

Solving wicked problems in the global environment and society requires new technologies, for example, in the digital and green transition. At the same time, digitalisation and technologies change our world, challenging the way we think and act.

The new technologies and digitalisation theme focuses on developing technologies and digital solutions as well as understanding and managing their impact; we need ethical, moral, and social reflection in the midst of change.

Our areas of strength:

Future technologies
AI theory, language models, societal implications, and regulation

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Research profile projects funded by the Research Council of Finland

Sustainable Materials & Manufacturing (SUSMAT) (Profi 7)

Digital futures

Digital Futures (DF) is research profile project of the University of Turku supported by the Academy of Finland in 2018-2022. It aims to build unique potential for leading edge digitalisation research by strengthening innovative research and intensifying collaboration. Digital Futures facilitates the exploration of digitalisation, experimentation with digital resources and collaboration with colleagues. Activities focus on Ideas and New Research, Data, and Teaching.

Digital Futures brings together actors inside, around and away from the university as participants and partners in multidisciplinary collaboration and research projects.