Regional Excellence (REx)

AGILE — the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe

DULIA — Deep Underground Laboratories Integrated Activities

EGU — the European Geosciences Union

EUL — European Underground Laboratories Association

FIN-EPOS — Fin­nish na­tio­nal node of the Eu­ro­pean Pla­te Ob­ser­ving Sys­tem

S3 Industrial Modernisation partnerships, Mining Industry (via Council of Oulu Region)

Callio Lab is a research network and research infrastructure for underground science and R&D. Our multidisciplinary group of experts acts as a link between companies and the Academy, as a one-stop-shop basis. We help companies and business networks find the best possible university partners and research institutes for your research or product development project. And, accordingly, research institutes and universities to find business partners.

We can also help in the selection of appropriate underground facilities. Callio Lab's operations are focused on the Pyhäsalmi mine, where it has six laboratory spaces for underground research at different depths (75 m to 1430 m). The entire mine can also be considered as one laboratory space, as research can also be organized outside the official laboratories. The premises are rented by Callio of Pyhäsalmi. We offer project search, coordination, cooperation, and maintenance services by our experts.

Customer target groups include mining companies, operators in the mining industry, authorities, the municipal sector, technology developers, and SMEs. Some services are subject to a fee, some are free of charge. Pricing is done on a case-by-case basis.

Website: oulu.fi/en/callio-lab

Contact details:

Jari Joutsenvaara

jari.joutsenvaara@oulu.fi

We provide customized services for spatial data analytics and education through a multidisciplinary network of experienced researchers. We are looking for solutions on how to get the best performance and results from your company/organization's own, openly available and commercial spatial data materials.

We produce information management solutions based on location information. The technologies we use are based on ArcGIS and QGIS software, Geoserver, Open Layers, Leaflet platforms and Python programming.

We take care of high-level data protection and high-quality data processing in all data analytics and data integration.

Customer target groups include companies and organizations in which the regional structure and optimization of customer events, customers, employees, operations, offices, location of raw materials and the supply chain are important for profitability and efficiency. Pricing is done on a case-by-case basis.

Contact details:

Ossi Kotavaara

ossi.kotavaara@oulu.fi

Accessibility analytics can be used to optimize the location network and customer encounters, as well as logistics solutions and travel chains from the point of view of movement. Accessibility can be measured and optimized in the transport network, taking car, public and light transport into account. In addition to the travel costs and the time used for movement, we can take into account the low-carbon nature of the traffic.

In addition to the most common location optimization methods, such as p-media or Huff's model, we produce our own method together with an experienced network of researchers.

Customer target groups include companies and organizations whose customer interface, office network and logistics require good accessibility and efficient movement. Pricing is done on a case-by-case basis.

Contact details:

Ossi Kotavaara

ossi.kotavaara@oulu.fi