Finland’s forests and interesting nature sites offer opportunities to increase wellness tourism. Attracting travelers and visitors requires increasingly diverse marketing and communication materials. One way to achieve this is by producing digital and virtual material about the destinations. What could this look like in practice? And how do satellites fit into the picture?
Kvarken Space Center and University of Vaasa were featured in Technology Industries of Finland’s Future Technologies video series, so let’s take a look at the world of space technology, led by Elo Umukoro. Elo visits the premises of the Espoo-based space technology company, Aurora Propulsion Technologies, to learn about the types of satellite components the…
The new book Space Business: Emerging Theory and Practice, published by Professor Arto Ojala from the University of Vaasa and Professor William W. Baber from Kyoto University, provides an in-depth exploration of the rapidly evolving space economy. In addition to Ojala and Baber, the book features also interesting chapters by our very own researchers from…
A group of students from Vaasa Lyceum High School (Vaasan lyseon lukio), along with visiting Italian Erasmus+ exchange students, kicked off their entrepreneurship education studies this academic year by participating in a Kvarken Space Startup business camp held on September 3-4, 2024. Read the article in Finnish or Swedish on Mega Magazine: link ➔ The camp was organized…
On Thursday, August 29th Kvarken Space Center got the pleasure of hosting members of KPMG’s Tech and Data Law team, led by their team leader Jannica Boucht. KPMG is a global network of professional service firms providing audit, assurance, tax, legal and advisory services. Kvarken Space Center’s specialists had prepared a set of presentations focusing…
On Wednesday, August 7th, people gathered at the Wasa Future Festival to hear and discuss how space data could be utilized in business. The Space Business Learning Café highlighted the growing importance of space data in the business world and encouraged participants to make use of the opportunities brought by this development to foster new…