Collaborators, funding and awards
Collaborators
Health Care Organizations
- Hospital District of Southwest Finland
- Maternity well-fare clinics
- Landspitali University Hospital – LUH, Iceland
- Satasairaala
Universities
- Department of Future Technologies, University of Turku
- Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Uppsala, Sweden
- School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Nursing, University of Iceland
- Nursing School of Coimbra, Portugal
- Nursing School of Lisbon, Portugal
- McGill, Ingram School of Nursing, Canada
- Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Canada
- Department of Nursing, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
- Faculty of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of Lleida, Spain
- Dalarna University, Reproductive, Infant and Child Health (RICH)
- University of California Irvine, The Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
- University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Sports and Health Sciences
Research groups
- Separation and Closeness Experiences in Neonatal Environment (SCENE)
- Pain in Early Life (PEARL)
- Golden Community, Nepal
- IKITIK
- The Close Collaboration with Parents Training Program
- Digital Health Technology Group
- Health SciTech Group
- Golden community
- FinnBrain
Enterprises
- Lingsoft Oy
- NordicEdu
- MiTale Oy
- Bayer Nordic
Funding
Current funding
Academy of Finland
- SLIM: Supporting Lifestyle Change in Obese Pregnant Mothers through Wearable IoT (1.8.2018-31.7.2022)
The Finnish Nursing Education Foundation sr
- HEAL project: HEAL Project: AI-driven Gamified Intervention to Foster Health Equity for the Life of Children (2023)
Turku University Foundation, Finland
- HEAL project: HEAL Project: AI-driven Gamified Intervention to Foster Health Equity for the Life of Children (2023)
Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, BlueSkies funding
- Design thinking to benefit the patient in health sciences education and healthcare–course implementation (2022-2023)
State Research Funding (TYKS)
- 2019-
Past funding
Academy of Finland
- PREVENT: Preterm Birth Prevention in Everyday Settings (1.1.2018-31.12.2019)
- Personalized Pain Assessment System based on IoT – PASI (1.1.2018-31.12.2019)
- SPA Smart Pain Assessment Tool Based on Internet of Things (1.1.2015-31.12.2016)
- Clinical language management for improvement of utilization and usability of patient journals (1.1.2011-31.12.2014)
Ministry of Education and Culture
- Continuing Education: Case management (2019-2022)
Nordplus
- Design Thinking in health technology education – GREAT (2020-2022)
The Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation- Business Finland
- Tailor – information and language technology tools for patients and professionals (1.9.2015-31.12.2017)
- Mobile and environment integrated dictation and communication application for health care, Mobster (1.1.2011-30.6.2013)
Finland-China Food Health (FCFH) network, University of Turku
- HEAL project: HEAL Project: AI-driven Gamified Intervention to Foster Health Equity for the Life of Children (2023)
Business Finland
- PARAS: Playful Activity Remotely and Socially (Co-Creation 1.3.2021-31.10.2021)
The Finnish Association for Nursing Education
- Closeness and Empowered Parenthood in Neonatal Care (2013-2016)
- Parental involvement in the pain care of preterm infants (2010-2013)
The Finnish Work Environment Fund
- Contextual snapshot –project (1.9.2014-31.12.2015)
- Smart medication dispenser project (1.9.2014-31.12.2015)
- Patient instructions project (1.9.2014-31.12.2015)
Juho Vainio Foundation
- YourJOYce project: Fume, Movenator, WellWe (2015-2017)
Turku University Foundation
- Family Centered Monitoring in Maternity Care – Mobile monitoring with a smartband during pregnancy (2016-2017)
- WellWe (2016)
Turku University Hospital Research Foundation
- Movenator (2015)
Finnish Occupational health Trust
- Developing a platform for Tactical Decision-Making with Smart technology (2014-2015)
Grant for Research and Innovation
- Text Mining of Patient Records, LOUHI (2005-2008)
TEKES – Research grant
- Tailor – information and language technology tools for patients and professionals (2015-2017)
Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation
- FinnWell-program
State Research Funding (TYKS)
- 2016-2018
- 2013-2015
- 2009-2012
Awards
since 2011
2020
- Stepping project (StepApp-intervention) was among the three finalists in National competition “Equality in digital services” (2020 Suunnannäyttäjät) organized by Digital and population Data service agency in Finland.
2019
- Maria Pulkkinen: Award for the best poster, 9th EORNA Congress, Hague, Netherlands 16.-19.5.2019.
- Anna Axelin: The best teacher of the academic year, Turun yliopiston hoitotieteen opiskelijoiden ainejärjestö Adaptus ry
2018
- Riitta Mieronkoski: Award for the best oral presentation, XV kansallinen hoitotieteellinen konferenssi, Vaasa 26.–27.9.2018
- Maija Kaapo: Award for the best poster, XV kansallinen hoitotieteellinen konferenssi, Vaasa 26.–27.9.2018
- Heidi Parisod: Doctoral dissertation approved with distinction, A health game as an intervention to support tobacco-related health literacy among early adolescents
- Anna Axelin: The best teacher of the academic year, Turun yliopiston hoitotieteen opiskelijoiden ainejärjestö Adaptus ry
2017
- Anna Axelin: The best teacher of the academic year, Turun yliopiston hoitotieteen opiskelijoiden ainejärjestö Adaptus ry
2016
- Anna Axelin: The award for distinguished pain researcher, The Finnish Association for the Study of Pain
2015
- Anna Axelin: the Close Collaboration with Parents training program, The Quality of Award of the Finnish Medical Association
- Anna Axelin: The best teacher of the academic year, Turun yliopiston hoitotieteen opiskelijoiden ainejärjestö Adaptus ry
- Anni Pakarinen: 3rd place in the best poster award, Nordic Conference on Advances in Health Care Sciences Research, 11-12.11.2015, Stockholm, Sweden.
2014
- Mervi Flinkman: Doctoral dissertation approved with distinction, Young Registered Nurses’ Intent to Leave the Profession in Finland – A Mixed-Method Study
- Heidi Parisod: 3rd place in the best poster award, Nordic Conference on Advances in Health Care Science Research, Turku 12.-13.11.2014
- Anna Axelin: The best teacher of the academic year, Turun yliopiston hoitotieteen opiskelijoiden ainejärjestö Adaptus ry
2013
- Heidi Parisod: 3rd place in Inspire category, Apps4Finland (Asthma self-care application)
- Heidi Parisod: Best consumer-centric concept in the field of mobile health, Taltioni Codefest (Asthma self-care application)
- Anna Axelin: The best teacher of the academic year, Turun yliopiston hoitotieteen opiskelijoiden ainejärjestö Adaptus ry
2012
- Sanna Salanterä: Award of the Educational Material 2012, for developing the Empowering Patient Education study module, by the Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku
2011
- Anna Axelin: Clinical eye of the year award, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku
- Anna Axelin: ASLA Fulbright Scholar
1999-2010
2010
- Anna Axelin: Doctoral dissertation approved with distinction, Parents as pain killers in the pain management of preterm infants
- Anna Axelin: The Annual Preemie Award, Kevyt ry (the Finnish Association for the Families of Preterm Infants
- Sanna Salanterä: Innovation of the year 2010 (for Sanna Salanterä and IKITIK-consortium), Turku Chamber of Commerce
2007
- Sanna Salanterä: Third Award in the 2007 Medical Challenge, Cincinnati Medical Center, USA (Classifying Clinical Free Text Using Natural Language Processing, together with Salakoski research group)
- Anna Axelin: The Neonatal Nurse of the Year in Finland
2006
- Sanna Salanterä: Award of Best Course of the Year 2005-2006, by the students and the students’ association Adaptus, “Multiprofessional Pain Care”, University of Turku
2005
- Sanna Salanterä: Teacher of the Year 2005 at the department of Nursing Science, University of Turku
- Sanna Salanterä: Award of Best Educational Material 2005, for developing the internet based research methodology course, given by the Faculty of Medicine University of Turku
2004
- Sanna Salanterä: Teacher of the Year 2004 by the students and the students’ association Adaptus at the department of Nursing Science, University of Turku
2002
- Sanna Salanterä: Worker of the semester at Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku
2000
- Sanna Salanterä: Recognition award for a specially merited nurse, Kyllikki Pohjola memorial fund, Finnish Nurses Association
- Sanna Salanterä: Visiting Northern Scholar Award, University of Edinburgh
- Sanna Salanterä: Incentive bonus award for developing clinical care of patients in pain, Pain Sisters –project, Mundipharma Stipendium, Finnish Association for the Study of Pain
1999
- Sanna Salanterä: The annual succeeder 1999 award, incentive bonus award to the “PainSisters” group (60 nurses), Turku University Hospital