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University of Turku <\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
UTU<\/strong> | University of Turku<\/h6><\/div>
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The University of Turku is an inspiring and international academic community of 25,000 students and employees. The university was founded in 1920 by the initiative of the Finnish people with the support of 22,040 donors.Faculties consist of Faculty of Education, Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Technology and Turku School of Economics.<\/p>\n

The University of Turku seeks solutions to global challenges with multidisciplinary, international, and effective research. Exceptional research profiles enable unique projects, for example, in sustainable development, biodiversity, marine and maritime environment, health and welfare state, and in digitalisation and future technologies. The University of Turku pioneers in open science and research impacts public debate and is employed in decision-making.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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University of Turku is the coordinator of PHASE IV AI and responsible for project management. UTU is the leader of WP1 Coordination & Management and takes care of the daily management tasks of PHASE IV AI in collaboration with main consortium bodies, WP and task leaders and all partners. In WP 3, UTU is leader task of de-identification technologies, including anonymization. Task 4.3. Model validation of WP 3 Model as a Service, MaaS is led by UTU. Expertise of UTU includes privacy-preserving AI, including ML-based synthetic data generation and data protection using mathematical privacy guarantees (differential privacy).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland <\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
VTT |\u00a0 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland<\/h6><\/div>
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VTT is a visionary research, development and innovation partner for companies and the society. We bring together people, business, science and technology to solve the biggest challenges of our time. This is how we create sustainable growth, jobs and wellbeing and bring exponential hope. VTT is one of the leading research organisations in Europe, and we have over 80 years of experience in cutting-edge research and science-based results. Our more than 2,000 professionals work to develop systemic and technological solutions that can bring about fundamental transformation. We promise to always think beyond the obvious.<\/p>\n

VTT\u2019s research, development and innovation activities are divided into three business areas in which we develop solutions for companies and society; Carbon neutral solutions, Sustainable products and materials and Digital technologies. <\/strong>At 2023 VTT has a staff of 2213 persons with turnover and other operating\u00a0 income of 261 M\u20ac.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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In PHASE IV AI VTT leads the Requirements and Specifications work package (WP2), develops methods for synthetic MRI image generation, as well as other health data synthetization. In addition VTT evaluates and improves the methods for synthetic data and models accuracy and quality evaluation as well as investigates how decision support tools and models can be developed with synthetic data and data privacy setups. In wider scope VTT also offers expertise for EHDS alignment for the PHASE IV AI Health Data Hub development to fulfill upcoming secondary usage regulation defined at EHDS Act.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Turku University of Applied Sciences <\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
TUAS | Turku University of Applied Sciences<\/h6><\/div>
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Turku UAS\u00a0is a higher education institution\u00a0of 13,000 experts, researchers, students, faculty members and teaching professionals. We create solutions for a better tomorrow \u2013 both regionally and globally. Our graduates are practice-oriented professionals with top competencies.<\/p>\n

As a significant regional actor, we harbour close ties to businesses and municipalities in Southwest Finland. Turku UAS is the fourth largest technical university in Finland. Students are sought after experts, with 99 % employment within five years of graduating.<\/p>\n

With top-of-the-line laboratories and learning environments and as a leading regional force in technology, Turku UAS is a major player in the Finnish tech field. With numerous specialities and study directions to choose from, business, communications, technology, engineering, and many other disciplines are represented.<\/p>\n

The Turku UAS Health Technology Research Group, participating in PHASE IV AI project, provides technical services and instrumentation facilities for health technology research and product development. We pioneer in synthetic health data generation, privacy-enhancing technologies, and ethical AI systems tailored for medicine. Our expertise includes:<\/p>\n