Research Groups

Our research, development and innovation (RDI) activities tackle real-world challenges through applied research and development projects. We focus on data-driven management, sustainable future and game development.

Our research groups work closely with business to enhance product, service and process development. There are over 150 experts conducting research project year.

Explore our research groups to see how we shape the future through collaborative research and impactful solutions.

On a summer day a person is standing on rock by the lake, and another person is standing in a lake doing some research. Picture Ella Lukkari / KAMK.

Sustainable Future

Circular Economy

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Different VR glasses in a shelf. Picture: Clever Simulation Entertainment / Kajaani University of Applied Sciences.

Game Development and Serious Games

Clever Simulation Entertainment

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Two people in the KAMK DC lab examining the laboratory's computers and other equipment. Picture: Kajaani University of Applied Sciences.

Data-Driven Management

Data Nexus Solutions Lab

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Two people standing in Kajaani's Health Forest route on a summer day.

Sustainable Future

Green Care and Planetary Wellbeing

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The RDI personnel of Business at KAMK are standing on the landing in front of large windows. Photo: Kajaani University of Applied Sciences.

Data-Driven Management

Regional Business Development

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Five people sit around a table and they look up. Behind them stands a man with glasses.

Data-Driven Management

Smart Solutions in Society

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Two people moving in front of iWall in a gymnasium. Picture: CSE Entertainment.

Data-Driven Management

Sports and Wellbeing Data

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Two people standing in the forest in the middle of night with green northern lights in the sky. Photo: Roni Lukkarinen.

Sustainable Future

Tourism

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The student is sitting at a table with a suture removal practice pad in front of them, holding tweezers and a suture removal knife. The student is looking at a screen that provides instructions on suture removal.

Sustainable Future

VITAL – Virtual & Immersive Teaching for Applied Learning in Health and Palliative Care

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RDI RDI Focus Areas Research and Development Infrastructure Projects