Allied ICT accelerates tomorrow’s breakthrough innovations

Digitalization creates vast possibilities for growth, but success requires agility, financial investment, and new partnership models. Finland must be in the vanguard of new technologies and business opportunities. Allied ICT Finland offers a smooth and efficient way to cooperate as your RDI partner.
Allied ICT Finland is a collaboration network of Finnish ICT research institutes and their cities, national ecosystems both applying and enabling ICT, hundreds of researchers and a large number of companies.

20

universities and research organisations

12

regional business development organizations

51

shared R&D environments

What do we offer?

For businesses

• An RDI partner for your projects covering the whole spectrum of ICT research.

• Contact point to Finnish ICT

• Coordinated EU-activities

For researchers

•Collaboration Projects

• Platforms: Shared RDI infrastructure

• Thematic gatherings, like poster days

• Coordinated EU-activities

Management and Coordination Team

The Management and Coordination Team is in charge of coordination and implementation. The daily operation takes place under following topics:

Network

Maximizing the effect of the network
Operational excellence
Taking care of network members
Project funding support and platforms

Projects

New strategic initiatives
New projects and references
Research themes and application areas

External relationships

Relationships to public entities, like funding agencies, governmental authorities and the EU,
International RDI relationships
Ecosystems and relationships to companies in Finland.

Contact us

National Steering Group

The National Steering Group follows and steers AIF operations, make alignments and agrees on common ways to operate. The National Steering Group assembles three to four times per year. Each AIF member has a representative in the National Steering Group.