Research & Development

The best understanding of holistic wellbeing

We want to generate know-how about individual’s holistic wellbeing – mind, brain, body. Together with our network of companies and multidisciplinary research and education institutes we aim to create innovations and significant research based business.

University of Jyväskylä

Globally ranked top research in sport & health science

The Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä was ranked 8th in ShanghaiRanking. The list comprises 300 sport-related units from universities all over the world.

Football Research & Sports Business

Nordic Football Conference 2022

The University of Jyväskylä and the Football Association of Finland jointly organized the first Nordic Football Conference in May 2022. The conference featured the best of both domestic and international football research.

The Sport Meets Business pre-event on 10 May 2022 brought together players from the sports business and research stakeholders as well as investors.

2022-2024 RDI project

Wellbeing Data Lab

The Wellbeing Data Lab project accelerates the opportunities for companies to grow new businesses in the ecosystem. The effectiveness of the project is based on new application innovations, which more effectively utilize information about the community's activity, wellbeing and movement based on the operating models, technical capabilities and data created in the project.

The project lowers the threshold for companies to join the university's research and project activities. The project is implemented in cooperation between the University of Jyväskylä and the City of Jyväskylä and is part of the ecosystem agreement signed with the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment.

Testaus

KIHU Sports Lab

With the help of the commissioned studies carried out by the KIHU Sports Lab, the Institute of High Performance Sports, the company gets factual information about the properties of its product to support marketing. Different measuring and testing services are also an effective way to improve and facilitate product development.

Apply 5.9.-2.10. Accelerator

Seed Village

The Seed Village Program is for sports, wellbeing and health companies that want to boost their growth and have a need for research collaboration or product/service validation. This year 2022, the theme of the program is data in health business. Read more and apply!

RDI Partners

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28.08.2023 Data Sports Research

Data analysis is a win-win for research and top-level football

The research collaboration with the Athletic Club playing in LALIGA is already well underway, and...

Petteri Itäranta

20.12.2022 Data News Sports Research Impact performance innovation

Better performance and new sport innovations – cooperation between Jyväskylä and Bilbao is progressing rapidly

Professor Neil Cronin, vice dean of research and innovation at the Faculty of Physical Education,...

Annukka Ollitervo

28.10.2022 Growth Research Incubator

A good funding application pays for itself

BiopSense’s roots are in Business Finland’s (former Tekes) Research to Business project at the...