Terveydenhuolto vie maailmanlaajuisesti n. 10 % BKTsta. Ikääntyvä väestö kasvattaa merkittävästi hoivan tarvetta erityisesti pitkäaikaishoivassa. Krooniset sairaudet, kuten diabetes, sydän- ja verisuonitaudit sekä mielenterveyden häiriöt, ovat maailmanlaajuisesti suurimpia terveysongelmia. Nämä sairaudet ovat usein pitkäaikaisia ja vaativat jatkuvaa seurantaa ja hoitoa. Osallisuus ja terveyserot ovat myös merkittäviä ongelmia vaikuttaen yksilöiden hyvinvointiin, yhteiskunnan tasa-arvoon ja taloudelliseen kestävyyteen. Toimintakyvyn rajoitteet vähentävät osallisuutta. \ \ Lääketieteen kehityksestä huolimatta ihmiskunta kärsii edelleen myös lukuisista tartuntataudeista. Koska infektioiden hoito on usein kallista ja haastavaa, infektioiden ennaltaehkäisyyn on kiinnitettävä enemmän huomiota. Sisäympäristöllä on tärkeä rooli infektioiden leviämisessä, koska ihmiset viettävät yleensä paljon aikaa sisätiloissa. Hoiva-asumisen yksiköt, joiden asukkailla immuniteetti on heikentynyt iän tai sairauksien vuoksi, hyötyisivät tästä merkittävästi. \ \ Projektissa kehitetään SmartCare-konsepti ja siihen liittyviä teknologiaratkaisuja, jotka edistävät erityisesti palveluasumisen asiakkaiden hyvinvointia. Parantunut hyvinvointi johtaa terveempään ja aktiivisempaan elämään ja vähentää hoidon tarvetta. Yksittäisten teknologioiden sijasta keskitytään modulaariseen teknologiakokonaisuuteen, jonka avulla ympäristö pystyy mukautumaan erilaisten asiakkaiden tarpeisiin. Hyvinvointia tukevan sisäympäristön rakentamisessa huomioidaan sekä sisätilahygienia ja esteettömyys, että käyttäjän toiminnan ohjaus. Älykäs sisäympäristö kykenee mittaamaan, analysoimaan ja hallitsemaan tilaansa. Tähän yhdistettynä kehon ja mielen toimintojen mittaamisella pystytään mukauttamaan ympäristöä ihmisen tarpeisiin sekä keräämään evidenssiä uusien teknologioiden vaikutuksista hyvinvointiin. Generatiivisella tekoälyllä louhitaan kerättyä dataa ja tuetaan ihmisen ja ympäristön tarveperusteista vuorovaikutusta. \

In this ambitious research project, the functioning of critical healthcare environments during major crises is ensured by modern technologies. We are establishing clothing-integrated and healthcare environment-embedded passive RFID solutions and utilizing data fusion for supporting mobile robots with the passive RFID data. Through this, we employ mobile robots to accomplish optimized routine work tasks and various critical supplementary missions during crises. Project deliverables include refereed articles in high-impact international scientific journals & conference proceeding and high-quality demo videos, which visualize the potentialities but also the challenges of the developed solutions. The carefully selected project collaboration team will enable high social impact of the research, as their substance skills guide the development towards the real-life needs of healthcare environments.

<< Background >>The environment and fight against climate change are an urgent focus on national, EU and global scenes recognizing key role of higher education institutions (HEIs) contributing to the changes needed to become climate neutral by 2050. Developing competencies and future-oriented curricula that meet the needs of individuals and the respective industries are highly required as the construction industry holds great responsibility and potential for supporting this agenda. Developing green sectorial skills and future-oriented curricula are essential aspects of preparing students, lecturers, and practitioners to become actual change factors.The construction industry is responsible for 40% of energy use, one-third of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, and has one of the most significant waste streams generated within the EU. This underpins the urgency of addressing the environmental aspects, supported by the EU Green Deal strategy, Paris Agreement and the UN’s 2030 Agenda for SDGs.SUSTAINABUILD will support three HEIs in Denmark, Finland, and Belgium and a construction business association in Spain to develop activities to foster the acquisition of interdisciplinary green skills and awareness towards the environmental challenges of their students and lecturers based on solid input and needs from the construction industry, thus ensuring the triple helix approach throughout SUSTAINABUILD. Therefore, the overall aim of this project is to equip students at construction engineering programmes through increased sustainable knowledge, awareness, and interdisciplinary green sectorial skills in an international perspective using innovative digital didactic learning methods and digital mobility. Additionally, SUSTAINABUILD aims to provide valuable insights into the contribution of the built environment to practitioners and lecturers within the field and to ultimately push the sustainability agenda in Europe and accelerate the implementation by internationally exchanging ideas and good practices.<< Objectives >>The main objective of SUSTAINABUILD is to develop a 5 ECTS hybrid course (WP3) focusing in detail on how construction projects (new buildings and renovation projects) can support the achievement of the 2030 Agenda and implement the course in the educational programmes of the partners. The course will consist of a theoretical and a practical part. It will provide a platform for lecturers to digitally facilitate interdisciplinary and international learning activities, thereby strengthening the interdisciplinary capabilities and awareness of sustainable solutions among students within construction engineering programmes who can participate in group work transnationally on industrial cases using digital mobility.As a foundation for the course, a thorough analysis, with input from the national reference groups will be made (WP2), resulting in a strategy for enhancing SDG integration in construction projects, including details on what the curriculum should cover, along with practical cases of SDG implementation in construction projects. Based on the strategic design framework results, new educational material will be developed for the course and tested twice among 150 students at the HEIs, along with a digital handbook (WP4) aimed towards practitioners, lecturers, and students within the construction industry which will include cases from the industry and the education material. The handbook and the other educational material will be freely accessible and available through e.g. the Erasmus Project Result Platform to all parties interested, thus enhancing lifelong learning.<< Implementation >>WP2 focuses on the strategic design framework, developing a strategy for enhancing SDG integration in construction projects. This WP commence with establishing reference groups of industrial partners and conducting state-of-the-art analysis, based on mapping the explicit links between the SDGs and the built environment and input from the construction industry. These inputs form the foundation for developing the strategic design framework, consisting of (1) a strategy for enhancing SDG integration in construction projects, including an overview of the current state of implementation of the SDGs in the four partner countries along with the needs of the companies. (2) A list of sustainable construction dimensions related to the SDGs and targets that should be covered in the curriculum of the hybrid course (WP3), and (3) a collection of practical cases of SDG implementation to be included in the digital handbook (WP4) and in the educational material of WP3. WP3 focuses on the hybrid course that is designed, developed, tested, and evaluated. Initially, teaching material and online teaching didactic and methods are reviewed. Based on the learning goals, the overall training concept and a specification for a set of e-learning elements based on the learning outcomes will be developed. Educational material will be developed for the digital course and will be improved through a peer-to-peer review process among the lecturers involved in the project, transnationally. Two pilot tests will be run to test the hybrid course at the partner institutions. The students will use digital mobility to work in international and multi-disciplinary teams and planned accordingly to existing semester plans; 150 students are expected to participate. WP 4 focuses on the design and development of the digital handbook, which will provide practical guidelines for practitioners, lecturers, and students within the construction industry on how construction projects can contribute to achieving the SDGs. Initially, the framework for the handbook will be developed, including the digital platform and the structure of the handbook. Then, the actual content for the handbook will be developed, including practical cases for the target groups, and finally, the content will be collected and set up, forming the digital handbook.WP 5 supports a broad impact by regular communication and dissemination of the project results. The final conference (ME1) and local events (ME2, ME3, ME4) will bring together project partners, national reference group members and other interested parties.<< Results >>The expected key results of SUSTAINABUILD are:A STRATEGIC DESIGN FRAMEWORK (WP2) of how the SDGs can be integrated into construction projects, along with a list of SDG construction dimensions and targets that the hybrid course (WP3) needs to cover. The strategic design framework will provide insights into the current state of implementation of the SDGs in construction in the partner countries and current local needs in the industry. The strategic design framework will provide valuable insights and serve as foundation for both developing WP3 and WP4 as well as future education material that can be developed after the project ends, thereby ensuring sustainability. THE HYBRID COURSE AND COURSE MATERIAL (WP3) focusing on how construction projects can contribute to the 2030 Agenda will provide students of construction engineering educational programmes with interdisciplinary and international knowledge and skills. The hybrid course utilizes the results from WP2 and will consist of a theoretical and a practical module based on a reflective learning approach. Furthermore, the course will strengthen digital mobility through international and multi-disciplinary group work between the students. THE DIGITAL HANDBOOK (WP4) will provide practical guidelines on how the SDGs can be implemented in construction projects, focusing on the entire construction process, from early design and programming to renovation or demolition. The digital handbook will serve as an advisory tool and will be targeted at practitioners within the construction industry, such as advisors, professional buildings owners, contractors, etc. as well as students and lecturers at HEIs as the handbook will be included in the hybrid course curriculum as educational material. The handbook will be freely accessible to all interested parties. The project results created in SUSTAINABUILD underline that the challenges within the construction industry cannot be solved by one country alone. We must work together and create shared knowledge and solutions to reach our joint aim – to contribute to the UN’s 2030 Agenda and the SDGs by improving our HEIs through cooperation transnationally and interculturally by including the triple helix approach to develop new innovative educational material which ensures that our students – and thereby the future workforce – have the optimal competences and skills to implement a sustainable construction industry.