Aika
19/11/2025
09:00 - 16:30
Time: Wednesday 19th November, at 9:00-16:30
Venue: Technopolis Innopoli 1
Address: Tekniikantie 12, 02150 Espoo). On the map.
Language: English
Welcome to Tulanet Infrastructure Day 2025!
The event is organised by VTT together with Tulanet (a cooperation forum of 11 Finnish government research institutes)
The theme of the event is the new European Research and Technology Infrastructure Strategy and expanded Nordic collaboration.
The first thematic session explores how the new European Research and Infrastructure strategy can shape the future by bringing together the EU level plans and insights of forerunners of national infrastructure strategies. A panel, gathering representatives from national ministries responsible for Tulanet infrastructure-intensive research institutes and policy development, and national funding authorities, the Research Council of Finland and Business Finland, will discuss how the EU strategy can support the development of national research and technology infrastructure (RI-TI) policy, and how to organise the national-level coordination to cover a broader scope of infrastructures, including technology infrastructures. The event also highlights the Tulanet institutes’ collaborations with Nordic organisations by showcasing examples of innovation ecosystems and company collaborations. An exhibition will present Tulanet organisations and stakeholders’ unique research and technology infrastructures.
Agenda (preliminary)
- 9:o0 -9:30 Registration and morning coffee
- 9:30-9:45 Opening: Research and Technology Infrastructures as enablers for innovation collaboration
- Opening and welcome: Sanna Marttinen, Executive Director, Finnish Partnership for Research Institutes Tulanet
- Keynote speech VTT: Kalle Härkki (tbc), CEO, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd
- 9:45-12:00 Thematic session 1: European Research and Technology Infrastructure policy
- The new European Research and Technology Infrastructure strategy – a strategic tool for the future: Jean-David Malo, Acting Director for ERA and Innovation, European Commission, DG R&I
- Fireside talk with the forerunners of national infrastructure strategies
- Netherlands: N.N, Directorate of Innovation and Knowledge, Directorate General for Enterprises and Innovation (tbc) OR Norway: N.N (tbc)
- Denmark: Lars Fremerey, Chief Advisor and development Manager, Public Affairs, GTS (tbc)
- Towards national action plan – how the new EU RI-TI Strategy can support the national infrastructure policy? Panel discussion with Finnish ministry representatives and funding bodies to explore the Finnish fit-for-purpose RDI infrastructure policy development at national level. The key questions are: What opportunities there are for Finland? Implementation – how to fit together the EU strategy and national priorities? How to organise a national level coordination to cover a broader scope of infrastructures? Timeline for integration of the technology infrastructure definition to national strategies, initiatives and acts as well as future infrastructure programmes and instruments?
- NN (tbc), Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland
- Petteri Kauppinen, Senior Ministerial Adviser, Ministry of Education and Culture
- Mikko Peltonen, Research Director, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland
- Kati Takaluoma, Ministerial Adviser, Strategic and Financial Management Unit, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
- Laura Höijer, Researcher Director, Ministry of Environment
- Merja Särkioja, Senior Adviser, Research Council of Finland
- Elina Holmberg, Senior Director, EU and International Innovation Collaboration, Business Finland
- 12:00-13:30 Lunch (self-paid) and possibility to visit exhibition area
- 13:30-14:30 Thematic session 2: Tulanet examples of expanded Nordic collaboration – research organisation/university/industry infrastructure collaboration – snap shots of shared infrastructures, well-organised RDI infrastructure ecosystems including value chains
- Sweden – Norway – Denmark – Estonia – Lithuania – Latvia (tbc)
- Finland – how Universities of Applied Sciences collaborates with industry and companies (of all sizes) in their RDI infrastructures? Juhani Soini, Vice Rector RDI, Turku University of Applied Sciences
- 14:30-15:00 Coffee break
- 15:00-16:00 Thematic session 3: Role of infrastructures in R&I collaboration to boost competitiveness
Case examples and experiences of company users and industry/stakeholder associations – how RDI collaboration can support research and technology development, uptake of scientific discoveries and scaling up?
- Case 1: Finnish Forest Industries, Marjaana Suorsa, Manager, Innovation Policy
- Case 2 N.N (a stakeholder organisation or a company) (tbc)
- Case 3: N.N (a stakeholder organisation or a company) (tbc)
- 16:15-16:30 Closing words and next steps
- Tulanet recommendations for the implementation of the new research and technology infrastructure strategy, Sanna Marttinen, Executive Director, Finnish Partnership for Research Institutes Tulanet
- Closing words, Mirka Gottberg, Manager, International Affairs, Policy and Strategy, VTT
About practicalities
Participation in person only. Online participation is only possible for speakers who are not able to come on-the-spot.
Registration via Lyyti by 29 October 2025. Registration is required to ensure diverse participation. Please note that the number of seats available per organisation is limited, with a maximum of 100 participants in total. Individual confirmations will be sent after the registration deadline (29.10.2025).
Additional information on lunch: Lunch is at your own expense. There is a lunch restaurant at Innopoli 1 with 3 choices from a lunch buffet and separate dishes from order. A separate cabinet is reserved for a lunch with 80 seats.
If you have any questions regarding the event, please contact us.
Looking forward to seeing you on 19th November 2025!
Kind regards,
Mirka Gottberg (VTT) & Sanna Marttinen (Tulanet)
mirka.gottberg@vtt.fi; sanna.marttinen@tulanet.fi
Tulanet is a collaboration forum for 11 government research institutes. These include the Geological Survey of Finland, the Finnish Meteorological Institute, the Natural Resources Institute Finland, the National Land Survey of Finland, the Finnish Food Authority, the Finnish Environment Institute, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, VATT Institute for Economic Research, and the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.
Photo: VTT