Today I work at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences as a lecturer in cultural management and an innovation coach. I am responsible for the facilitation of many kinds of innovation projects; I bring enterprises, teachers and young students from different fields together to innovatively develop new solutions. At the intersection of culture, well-being and technology new social innovations are being continuously formed. It is not important how radical the innovation is; even solutions producing a small amount of value-added are important.

In the process, innovation competences develop, which are of use to everyone. They are the ability to engage in future’s thinking, creativity, social skills, project management skills, technical skills and various communications and collaboration skills. Over 1000 innovation projects are carried out per year at Metropolia, and multidisciplinary innovation pedagogics is continuously developed. After all, Metropolia was awarded the Foundation for Finnish Invention’s Konsta Prize for a pedagogical innovation named the MINNO® Innovation Project.

Learning, teaching and supervision in innovation processes are my main focus of interest at present, and I am also writing my doctoral dissertation on the subject. The enthusiasm the University of Helsinki gave me for exhaustively investigating and studying matters has once more raised its head.