About us

DIDAIhub is a community platform and a catalyst of innovative research and learning solutions with global impacts at the University of Turku. We approach global sustainability challenges with an inclusive and transformative mind-set, combining local talent with open data, digital technologies and citizen engagement.

New-generation university graduates and researchers need to be competent with digital data and novel technologies, but equally they need to master the interface between technologies’ potential and societies’ emerging needs. This can only be achieved when working in a multi-stakeholder environment globally and locally, and co-creating innovative and impact-based solutions. DIDAIhub community thrives from system-level and transformative research, which aims to turn data, tools, skills and competences into actionable solutions for sustainable and climate resilient ecosystems and life all over the world. The transformative digital data, technology and community-based practices and solutions gathered to DIDAIhub have been developed and piloted together with our long-lasting academic partners, such as universities in Tanzania. The cooperation has catalysed innovative research and education, and successful skills development for both the academic staff and the students.

DIDAIhub community was initiated through long-term cooperation between universities in Finland and Tanzania since 2003 (GeoICT4e, Tanzania Resilience Academy). Explore our innovative solutions, digital tools, online learning materials gathered to this hub, contact experts and partners and welcome to establish new partnerships and contribute to the assets with your expertise.

 

Our key thematic expertise areas are:
  • Landscape, land cover and forest mapping and and changes
  • Participatory GIS and community mapping methods
  • Climate change, urban resilience, climate services
  • Landscape value and ecosystem service mapping
  • Earth observation and citizen science
  • Participatory land use planning and natural resource management
  • Sustainability of coastal landscapes and ecosystem, MSP
  • Knowledge creation processes in globalization and development cooperation
  • Geospatial capacities and competence growth
  • Geospatial and ICT entrepreneurship
  • Geospatial businesses in emerging markets
  • Open Science, Digital skills and sustainability

 

Our partners are:
  • Ardhi University, Tanzania
  • Moshi Co-operative University, Tanzania
  • Sokoine Unversity of Agriculture, Tanzania
  • State University of Zanzibar, Zanzibar
  • University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  • Novia University of Applied Sciences, Finland
  • Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland