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The critical aspect of the project would be the diversity of Asia partners and Finnish collaborators. Target Asian partners would be Korea and Singapore in 2022 and China and South Asia countries in 2023.

For Finnish partners, not only regional characteristic and disciplinary diversities will be considered while all these institutions share the core “experience design” theme. The University of Turku (UTU) will be the leading institution of SEDE-FAN. As a member of The European Campus of City-Universities (EC2U), UTU will coordinate other higher education institutions in Turku as collaboration partners. Note that the Turku Design Studio (http://utu.fi/tds), the design research and education space for higher education institutions in Turku, is the home for SEDE-FAN project. The University of Oulu has joined the network in 2022. The leaders of Oulu and UTU have been actively leading the global design research community of the Design Society.