Support circular production and process development

In order to achieve a carbon-neutral society and preserve biodiversity, the world must take a new direction. Arcada needs to create a learning and research environment where our future engineers learn to develop and use digital solutions - a prerequisite for Finland's success in the transition to a climate-smart society.

Engineers are in a key position when it comes to developing and implementing sustainable innovations. To succeed with the UN's sustainability goals, we need to renew our product development and production processes, streamline material and energy use and move to renewable energy sources and sustainable materials.

Digital solutions are a cornerstone of change. At Arcada, we want to introduce digital twins in our engineering educations and research to enable cost-effective and sustainable product development. A digital twin is a virtual copy of a physical product, process or machine. With the help of sensors, the twin is connected to the physical object that it imitates and can collect data from the object.

Digital twins are used to develop and simulate products, processes and functions as well as to train people in the use of machines and systems. A concrete and simple example is that we in the future can be able to build houses digitally and calculate energy and material consumption even before we start construction. In other words, working with digital twins is a cost-effective and sustainable way of managing processes.

Contribute to a sustainable world

With our cutting-edge expertise in circular economy, trustworthy AI and simulation pedagogy, we at Arcada want to contribute to a sustainable world. We all need to contribute efforts to achieve the global climate goals.

By supporting our digital solutions, you help us ensure the quality of engineering education and support the technical know-how of our students and graduate engineers. At the same time, we can develop cooperation with the private sector and contribute with applied research to solve the challenges of business and industry.

With support for our engineering programmes, we can:

  • Create digital twins to support education, research and collaborations and contribute with smart solutions for society.

  • Update our lab with tools that are compatible with the digital twins.

  • Hire a lab developer to help us implement the digital twins in teaching and research.

By donating, you:

  • Ensure the quality of the technology educations.

  • Support students and graduate engineers’ technical know-how.

  • Create basic conditions for research on circular production and process development.