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What is Future Proof Health and Wellbeing innovation hub?

The Future Proof Health and Wellbeing innovation hub collaborates with businesses, research institutes, cities, wellbeing services counties, organizations, residents and students to tackle global challenges.

We create and develop solutions to promote equal possibilities for a meaningful and good life with focusing on multidisciplinary thinking, which looks at phenomena from different angles.

  • We are a positive counterforce to global challenges
  • We foresight future by promoting planetary health and holistic wellbeing.
  • We want to strengthen humanity and justice.
  • We appreciate diversity, creativity and nature connection as a resource and working method.
  • We develop sustainable future in transdisciplinary ecosystems.

We invite You to join us to develop Future Proof solutions with us!

Our Research and Development Programmes

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    Equitable and diverse life

    We strengthen the capabilities and resources of society and communities across different stages and structures of life. We support the development of a multicultural society, two-way integration, and the inclusion, wellbeing, and employment of migrants, while also promoting language-aware and multilingual communities.
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    Child and Youth Wellbeing

    We cultivate systemic wellbeing by co-creating solutions that shape a desirable future together with children, young people, families, and professionals. At the heart of sustainable change are partnership-based collaboration and future-oriented agency.
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    Future health and ageing

    Promoting the well-being and health of the entire population is a key challenge for the future, requiring new solutions for disease prevention and maintaining functional capacity. Our goal is to combine multidisciplinary research with practical development work in areas such as aging technology, nutrition, and diagnostics.

Research and Development Programmes

Ongoing national projects

Ongoing international projects

Completed projects

Collaboration Platforms

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    Health Proof Helsinki

    HPH provides a modern environment, flexible processes and extensive expertise in preclinical testing, piloting, validation and verification.
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    Metropolia Smart Care

    A multidisciplinary and international collaboration and development platform based on an ecosystem approach.

Current News in the Innovation Hub

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Nea Vänskä’s Doctoral Research on Rehabilitation that Promotes Child Participation

Nea Vänskä’s doctoral research, “Enhancing participation of children with disabilities in pediatric rehabilitation”, was defended at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, on August 22, 2025. Based on three sub-studies, the research describes the elements of rehabilitation that promote child participation. The dissertation delivers new knowledge on how to advance children’s participation as a rights-based and child-specific collaboration in multidisciplinary rehabilitation, enabling children to take an active agency in their own rehabilitation process.

The PhD supervisors were Professor of Child Neurology Leena Haataja from the University of Helsinki and Director of Wellbeing of Children and Youth R&D Programme Salla Sipari from Metropolia. Docent, MD Ilona Autti-Rämö was the opponent at the doctoral defence.

Iäkkään ihmisen käsi pitää kädessä palloa, nuorempi käsi pitää kiinni iäkkään kädestä.

Better Wellbeing through Gentle Care

How can the wellbeing of people with memory disorders in care homes be improved without medication? The Gentle Care project showed that the answer lies in small, gentle acts and structural support for nursing work.
The concrete tools (such as an idea card deck) and information produced in the project are openly available for use by care home supervisors and staff.

Other Key Activities

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CuWeRE - Cultural Wellbeing Research and Education Centre

CuWeRE is a research ecosystem focused on creativity and participation as forces for change. Its goal is to enhance transdisciplinary understanding of how imagination, creativity, and art can expand the ways people exist and think, guiding them towards landscapes of potential solutions. Cultural Wellbeing Research and Education Center is founded by Metropolia University of Applied Sciences and the University of Jyväskylä.

Read more on CuWeRe site

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Onboard Metropolia Gerontechnology

Onboard Metropolia Gerontechnology offers user-driven co-development for companies developing age technology solutions. We arrange testing and user trials for digital products and services in genuine environments and in Metropolia’s versatile simulation premises. We produce services for companies in a multidisciplinary manner in collaboration with students, service providers and seniors.

Read more on Onboard Metropolia site

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News from Innovation Hub

Metropolia appointed new Programme Directors to the Future Proof Health and Wellbeing innovation hub

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Metropolia, the City of Helsinki, and HUS enable Finnish health technology companies to access European testing environments

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Future Proof Health and Wellbeing innovation hub builds positive counterforces to global challenges

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Building career and networks – alumni event brought together the international professionals from five UAS’

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Contact Information

Minna Elomaa-Krapu

Innovation Director

Minna.Elomaa-Krapu@metropolia.fi +358505326331 Show profile in People Finder

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