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Well-being at work and work ability
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9/2024–2/2027
Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Work - information, solutions and visions
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2025
Mitä kuuluu (How are we)? Well-being at work in private social welfare and health care companies
Project
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4/2024–5/2025
Mitä kuuluu (How are we)? Well-being at work in the rescue sector
Project
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1/2024–4/2027
Multi-method assessment study: attraction and retention coaching (Breakthrough Collaboratives)
Project
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8/2024–1/2027
Tailored treatment of insomnia in social and health care sector shift workers in occupational health care
Project
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1/2024–12/2025
Arctic chemical preparedness and protection – Promoting preparedness for serious chemical threats and protecting rescuers in the Northern operating environment
Project
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8/2024–7/2027
PEPPI – Developing employee retention in early childhood education and care through well-being management
Project
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7/2021–10/2024
Excellence in Pandemic Response and Enterprise Solutions - E3
Project
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11/2023–10/2027
Joint Action on Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes (JACARDI)
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As of 2018, the well-being at work survey and its summarised focus version have been carried out annually in October-November, the focus version also in the spring if necessary.
Mitä kuuluu? study (How are we?)
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1/2024−5/2025
Working conditions and work ability of employees transferred to wellbeing services counties
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2/2023–12/2026
Job accommodation to support returning to work after a stroke
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6/2024–6/2025
Sustainability picnic: Workplaces as drivers of sustainable development
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10/2023–12/2025
Multidisciplinary assessment of work ability in occupational health care
Project
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12/2023–9/2024
Assessment of the implementation of rehabilitative psychotherapy
Project
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2/2023-1/2025
Occupational health care as part of the social welfare and health care system
Project
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1/2024–1/2026
Ability to change as a success factor
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3/2024–9/2026
Effectiveness of occupational health care in mental health issues
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1/2024–12/2025
Alternative bedding solutions for dairy cattle – LAKU
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11/2021-12/2024
Change in work after the coronavirus pandemic – research project on remote work and work at the offices among Finnish knowledge employees
Project
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2/2024–9/2026
Taking control of teachers’ ethical distress
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3/2024–12/2025
Algorithmic Management and AI-based systems and their OSH implications at the workplaces (ALMA-AI)
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1/2024–12/2026
Understanding and supporting the digital and green transition as part of well-being at work
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2/2024-11/2025
Work in the heat - risk management at workplaces - HeatFit
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2/2023–8/2024
From survival to renewal: Managing learning and innovation in a workplace crisis – UUDIS
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1/2022–12/2028
Working Finland – Working conditions, work ability and well-being at work in the Healthy Finland Survey
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1/2024–12/2026
Work ability and early exit from the labour market of older workers
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3/2024–2/2026
Usefulness of occupational health care client portals in the promotion of work ability and working conditions (TYTTI)
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1/2024–8/2025
Recruiting from abroad and employee retention in the healthcare and social services sector
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11/2023–12/2024
Coping and health of professionals in independent production companies' film and TV productions (AVAT)
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4/2023–7/2024
Workload Management in Safety-critical Work During an External Crisis
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2/2024–6/2026
Differentiating emotions: the role of an employee’s generation and gender in their emotional experiences of working life and work ability and their management
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6/2023–10/2025
Occupational safety of supply chains in road freight transport
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9/2023–12/2025
Workload in the retail sector – from peak workloads to more fluent work
Project
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9/2023–8/2026
Allergens in biological control agents used in greenhouse work (TORJU)
Project
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10/2023–9/2025
Occupational safety learning and management in platform work – TOPPA
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11/2023–11/2025
Safer life cycle of advanced 2D materials used in energy applications – Safe2energy
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10/2023 –9/2025
Work, workers, and know-how to older people services – TEOS
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3/2023–7/2024
Manage recovery during crises
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7/2023–6/2029
Algorithmic management at work - ALGOSH
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6/2023–3/2025
Exposure and health effects in metal 3D printing – Meta 3D
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12/2019–11/2023
Mental wellbeing management and productivity boosting in the workplace – Mad@Work
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5/2023–3/2025
The Mental Health Toolkit
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1/2022–12/2024
Changes in legislation on carcinogens – impact on the workplace (ASA)
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8/2023–5/2026
The impact of night shift work on women’s breast cancer and reproductive health
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1.6.2023–30.9.2025
Engagement and social connections in multi-location work
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03/2023–02/2027
SYNCLUSIVE – System approach to close the employment gap and create a more inclusive labour market for vulnerable groups
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3/2023–3/2025
Psychosocial job characteristics and heart rate variability – a good heart rate for better health (Hyvällä sykkeellä töissä)
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3/2023–8/2024
The consequences of COVID-19 pandemic and factors supporting resilience during the pandemic in the municipal sector
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1/2023-10/2024
Why Come to the Office? Opportunities and Challenges of Self-guided Hybrid Work project
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8/2022–12/2024
Prognosis of Work-Related Asthma – TASTE
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12/2022–5/2024
Well-being at Work of Dentists in Finland: a 20-Year Longitudinal Study
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3/2023–8/2025
Mental health treatment paths in occupational health care (MielenPolut)
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3/2020–10/2023
Graphene Flagship Core 3
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2/2023–3/2025
Developing physical functional capacity test instructions, test feedback and training instructions for the FirstFit method
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5/2022–4/2029
Partnership for the Assessment of Risk from Chemicals PARC
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8/2022–5/2024
More dynamic office and remote work through sitting and standing – SitFit
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8/2022–4/2025
Workplaces as climate actors, sustainable solutions through co-creation – TILKE
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2/2022–9/2024
Decision-making in a resilient organisation – ResData
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9/2022–3/2025
Health care work and spaces in change – TYTINÄ
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1/2021–5/2023
Immediate supervisors supporting working careers in ageing working life
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6/2020-5/2023
Partial work disability and length of working careers
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1/2022–12/2024
Sustainable Growth Programme for Finland – expansion of the Work Ability Programme (RRP)
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5/2022–11/2023
Service development amidst change in the operating environment of occupational health services (PALMU)
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6/2022–5/2024
Partial disability pension to facilitate continuing work
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12/2022–6/2024
Burnout related practices and their implications in selected countries
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12/2021–10/2023
Reinvention, recovery and occupational wellbeing through focus – OLLAPPA
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2/2023–9/2025
Locating the Essential
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9/2022–9/2024
MetsäTurva – More effective use of safety data in forestry SMEs
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9/2022–12/2024
Brief psychological treatments and psychotherapies as part of future occupational healthcare
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1/2023–3/2025
COMMUTE - Healthy, safe, and climate-friendly commuting
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8/2021–5/2024
Effects of ergonomic shift scheduling and COVID-19 pandemic on working hours and health in the social and health care sector
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1.9.2019 - 31.8.2022
QAVAD, Quality of Life at Home
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2/2018 -12/2022
Robot-assisted Environmental Monitoring for Air Quality Assessment in Industrial Scenarios (RASEM)
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1.1.2022–31.3.2024
System intelligent human factors in promoting safety in the chemical industry (CHEF)
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2021-2022
Lightening work that entails lifting using an exoskeleton in various work tasks in the logistics sector
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2/2020–7/2022
Predictive methods for improving sustainability of mental well-being at work (ENNAKKO)
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10/2020–12/2023
Collaborative promotion of mental health – solutions for social and health care workplaces
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1.9.2019−31.12.2023
Impact on sickness absences of early measures to support work ability and return to work after hip and knee replacement surgeries (Occupational health support for joint replacement surgery)
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3/2021–8/2023
Promoting mental health and work ability through the development of mental health expertise and regional co-operation (MYÖTE)
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09/2021–09/2023
Safety Learning in Immersive Virtual Reality – SLIVeR
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03/2020–02/2024
SAbyNA – the industry guidance platform for the development of safer nanomaterials and nano-enabled products
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2018-2023
Spatial solutions for environmental satisfaction, well-being and work engagement in activity-based offices – ActiveWorkSpace
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1.1.2020–31.12.2021.
Viisikko – Five themes of brain work
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1.9.2020-30.9.2023
Responsible work ability support – TYÖOTE
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2019-2021
Occupational safety management in a 12-hour shift system: Links between alertness, safety behaviour and occupational exposure during long shifts (PiTKäT)
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2020–2023
Reliability, quality and new possibilities of the information needed for the occupational health situation analysis
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2020–2023
Mental health in work – different generations in the swells of work life
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2021-2023
Work-related exposure to harmful substances in circular economy – HAKiTa
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2020–2022
New workplace survey practices and policies – DigiTPS
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8/2020–3/2023
New forms of work and ensuring work ability – health-related behaviour in remote work
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8/2020–12/2022
Development paths of balancing work and family and impact on changes in the health and work ability of municipal and hospital employees
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1.3.2020–30.9.2022
Longer working careers and productivity through work ability support – operational models for multidisciplinary co-operation (TYKYTUO) – Sub-project: Effective operational models and indicators in occupational health co-operation
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2018–2030
The state of work ability in Finland
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2020–2023
Supporting work ability and mental health at work: Assessment of the operational model for early identification and action
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2020–2021
Work ability information and employability information in support of operations – TykyData
Programme
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1.3.2020 - 31.3.2023
Work ability programme
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8/2019–4/2022
Work ability in the everyday life of an entrepreneur in the social and health care sector – ways to manage stress factors
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1/2020–6/2025
Exposure and stress in the working-age population – Exposome Project for Health and Occupational Research – EPHOR
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2/2021–1/2023
Well-being at work and competence in the service sectors
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9/2020 – 9/2023.
Improving safety management through data mining – AI Safety
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2019–2022
Teaming Up for Safety! – Working Groups as Safety Factors – TURTI
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2/2020–1/2023
Know – Productivity and well-being at work
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2019-2022
Impaired information processing and work ability
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1.1.2020−31.12.2022
Utilizing digital data to estimate working conditions in health care
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2/2020–6/2022
AI to support the development of work (TeKeT)
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8/2020–3/2023.
Towards a successful career
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2.1.2019–31.12.2022
Succeed together – Well-being at work, management and client involvement in the social and health care reform
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10/2019–9/2022
Manifold more - Leverage to the professional careers of immigrant background women
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1.5.2020–
How is Finland doing?
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2020-2023
What if the well-being of the mind was to be rebuilt? A qualitative study of young working adults to develop operational models
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15.1.2019–31.12.2021
Micro-enterprises developing work ability management: a study on work ability management practices
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1/2020 - 6/2022
Microentrepreneur’s productivity and work ability
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5/2021–12/2022
Mental health support at the workplace – an operational model for occupational health co-operation
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12/2020–11/2022
Lithium-ion batteries (Li-ion) lifecycle – occupational safety risks and risk management
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5/2020-12/2022
The quality of indoor air and indoor environments of sport facilities and their possible effects on the well-being and health of employees - LIIKU
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8/2019–11/2021
Impact of medical guidelines on employees' sickness absences and physicians' operations in cases of musculoskeletal pain
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2021–2022
Exposure to and management of quartz in construction
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1.4.2021–31.3.2025
Innovative tools to study the impact and mode of action of micro- and nanoplastics on human health: towards a knowledge base for risk assessment (PlasticHeal)
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2021–2023
Hazard characterization of graphene based nanomaterials in energy production and storage(GrapHazard)– SAF€RA
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1/2019-12/2022
The participative development for supporting-human factors of safety (PARSA)
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2020–2023
The effectiveness and use of rehabilitative psychotherapy in the working-age population in Finland
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2020–2023
Local government employer's influence on workplace bullying and client violence: risk prediction model and development intervention
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1.1.1997–31.12.2030
Finnish Public Sector study (FPS)
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1/2019-3/2021
Cryptosporidiosis – an emerging zoonotic threat in cattle herds (the KRYPTO project)
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9/2021–8/2023
Agile and prosperous companies
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1.6.2015 – 31.5.2021
Working hours, health, well-being and participation in working life (WOW)
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2021-2022
The Kasvetaan yhdessä project – increasing companies’ productivity and well-being at work by developing organizational resilience and adaptability
Programme
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10/2018 - 12/2028
The Finnish Indoor Air and Health Programme
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1.1.2020-31.10.2022
Easier working with arms held up with an exoskeleton
Project
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11/2020–12/2023
Climate change and work – systematic collection of data on the impact of climate change on work life
Project
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10/2020–3/2023
Hyvinvoiva hybridiyrittäjä
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2020–2023
Ensuring the availability of staff and the attractiveness of the sector in elderly care services (Hyvä veto)
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1.1.2017–31.12.2021
HBM4EU – EU Biomonitoring Project
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6/2021–6/2023
Floor is Ours! Developing a culture of intervention in performing arts workplaces
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2019–2021
FirstFit – Assessing and promoting the functional capacity and work ability of paramedics at all stages of their careers
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3/2020–11/2022
Updating and developing the content and tests of the FireFit method
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8/2021–12/2023
Remote occupational health negotiation – new operational models and effective interaction to support work ability
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2021–2023
Remote metering techniques for assessing employee exposure and ensuring safety
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2021-2024
Links between different office types, remote work and sickness absence before and after the coronavirus pandemic
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2021–2023
Hazard characterization of graphene-based nanomaterials in energy production and storage (GrapHazard)
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8/2020–8/2022
More time for empathy? Technology-based communication and well-being at work in nursing
Project
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1.1.2020-31.12.2021
Digitalization for All
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2019–2023
Digital work ability and functional capacity pathway for long-term and chronically symptomatic patients – DigiPimo
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10/2021–9/2027
Life course and economic implications of demographic change (LIFECON)
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2021-2023
Perceived and measured hazards in Finnish museum work environments – MUHA
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2017-2022
SujuKE – improving work flow through cognitive ergonomics – An intervention study
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1/2019–12/2022
Strategic work ability management in the social and health care reform
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1/2019–12/2022
Social and health care professionals as experts of client involvement (ASKO)
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10/2014–8/2023
Abilitator assesses work ability and functioning -coordination project (Solmu)
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2020-2023
Fair work on platforms – REITA
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1.6.2021-31.5.2023
Impact of PAH compounds in building materials on indoor air quality - PAHSIS
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1/2018 - 9/2022
Wood dust and new binding limit values – can the provision of information have an impact on exposure and working conditions? – PUUPÖLY
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6/2020–12/2021
Suitability of demolition materials for different applications in terms of safety and health – PURATER
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2.1.2021−31.1.2023
Pandemics and risk management
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2020-2023
Professional and reforming careers
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1.9.2019–31.1.2022
Teachers in a changing school world - How does the new curriculum affect teachers' well-being at work?
Project
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3/2020–8/2022
DigiGain: Potentials of digitalization for small and medium-sized enterprises
Project
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2019–2022
COADAPT: Adaptive environments and conversational agent based approaches for healthy aging and work ability
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11/2020–7/2023
Expert in the transformation of rural areas (Asiantuntija maaseudun muutoksessa, AMMU)
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1/2020 – 12/2022
Irritant-induced asthma
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1/2019-12/2022
Prevention of acrylate-induced rashes and respiratory diseases in the beauty care and assembly sectors
Project
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2019-2022
To what extent are work disability and exit from work life preventable?
