First joint CBU/BCBU summer school in Rovaniemi (2)

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Here I continue story about CBU-BCBU summer school.

The programme on Monday 27^th of August was started by Prof. Petri Pulli from University of Oulu opened keynote session with lecture “Smart Living Environment for Senior Citizen”. Continuing the topic of “technology for senior citizen” Prof. Goshiro Yamamoto took over with presentation “PiTaSu: Universal touch interface” who is originally from Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. He presented two main products which called PiTaSu and Re-PiTaSu. The outline of the presentation has been aimed at finding solutions from IT support living of senior citizens. He presented the same trend that share of elderly people increasing and it will require more costs in social services. Then Arja Kilpelainen presented lecture under the title “Evolving welfare services by using IT”, where she raised attention to the future outlook of welfare, technology and its combination. After that researcher Prof. Monica Tenneberg presented the lecture “Politics of Development in the Barents Region” where she brought up the sustainable development in the Barents region, explained the mission of “Nordforsk” research network, gave some references to the development of politics in Barents Region and explained the future research needs for cooperation between the countries in the region.

 In afternoon the session continued with oral presentations by students, Denard Veshi with “Ethical and Legal Consequence of these Medical Discoveries”. Karol Waga continued with “Reccomendation system”. Zeeshan Asghar presented “Augmented Reality Teleprecence System for Senior Citizen”. Then Hana Vrzakova made a impressive presentation about eye-tracking in usability. Then day ended with 4 poster session which was devoted to the services which could be provided to elderly people from student experts from University of Oulu.

On Tuesday the session started with the lecture of Prof. Mikko Kolehmainen under the title “Introduction to environmental informatics and its research in UEF” where he described the concept of “environmental informatics” and about computational methods related to that. Then Prof. Evgeny Veremey from St. Petersburg continued with “Digital systems and environmental”. Klaus Känsälä from VTT continued with “Wireless environmental measurements”, where he presented the term of wireless measurements and provided a cases of different applications such as structures and compounds monitoring. Ass. Professor Margarita Sotnikova continued the topic of digital systems with demonstration of digital processing world by means of MATLAB. Then session continued with 2 oral presentation by students. First by Dubatova Anastasia regarding water supply systems in Petrozavodsk and Oulu. Second oral presentation for today was from Paras Pant regarding the Utilization of Remotely Sensed Hyperspectral Information for Forest Analysis. He presented the importance of the method used and provided the evidences why ground true data has to be combined together with remote sensing data. Then the session continued with 4 poster presentations. where me myself (Maxim Trishkin) started with forestry topic regarding the attitudes of forestry companies towards forest certification in Russia. Then Artur Khromov from Saint Petersburg State University continued with "Spectral Images Compression Using PCA and Wavelet Transformations with Information Losses Control". After that Zhengzhe Wu from University of Eastern Finland described the meaning of his poster under the title "Forest Stand Segmentation from LIDAR Data Based on Mean Shift and Spectral Clustering". And day’s session ended by Liliya Rudko from University of Helsinki named "Content Popularity".

On Wednesday session has started with keynote speaker Prof. Suvi Ronkainen from University of Lapland. She explicitly described the topic of "Towards post-disciplinarily? Then Professor Kauko Leiviskä from University of Oulu continued with topic "Methodologies in Modeling and Experimental Studies". Last in the day’s session was Docent Marina Kubyshkina from Northern (Arctic) Federal University presenting the "Quantitative Research Design? The Reason for Choice". She started with definition of research design. She emphasized the importance of object of studies, unit used for analysis, sampling, equipments and the time required.

In afternoon all the participants went to Santa-Claus village which is just outside of Rovaniemi. Surely the summer is not the best season, however I am personally very enjoyed staying there.

On Thursday the session was started by Professor Jussi Kauhonen from University of Eastern Finland gave a presentation under the title “Socio-cultural Environment and Well-being”. Then Prof. Andrey Soloviev from Northern State Medical University continued with “Old Age Alcoholism as a Social Phenomen". He started with introduction of terms of physical and mental health. It was surprisingly for me to know that more than 3% of Russian population have some problems with mental health. Then lecturer Pia Skaffari from University of Lapland presented another phenomenon "Cross-Border Prostitution in the North" with special emphasis on this issue in Northern part of Finland.

Then session continued with oral presentations "Co-design as a Method of Inclusion for Older Adults in Public Social and Health Care Services" where promotion older adults’ wellbeing was presented as part IKÄEHYT project.  Then continued by Paul Pavitra with "Social Determinants of Health in Well-Being" from University of Eastern Finland regarding health issues in Ukraine based on the survey which has been carried out there. After that 2 posters were presented. First by Maria Semenova, from University of Eastern Finland about "Health Care Quality in Sparsely Populated Area: Health Care in Murmansk Region". Second, by Irina Petuchova from Petrozavodsk State University regarding "Social Adaption of Orphans and Children without Paternal Support".

Some of us for evening programme went to Arktikum museum, which is tells a lot about the climate and life in arctic belt and has been very refreshing in summer.

The Friday programme started by Professor Riitta Keiski from University of Oulu with presentation about "Research Ethics in Finland". Then lecturer Lidia Kriulya from Northern (Artic) Federal University continued with Research Ethics in Russia. She emphasized most of the time the importance of theoretical background and provided historical data of appearance such phenomena. Prof. Anna-Maija Pietilä continued with lectures about challenges in Multidisciplinary Health Research. She described the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration related to interdisciplinary research, dialog and sharing understanding and elaborating issues in the future, when building bridges between art and science. It seems to me that integrative approach is a patchwork of the sciences, so it was presented by lecturer.

In afternoon we have been divided into groups to discuss ethical aspects related to the research, discussing the boundaries and its effect. In addition, we provided practical examples of ethical questions in the work. It has been interesting discussion in the group, since we were presenting different countries, backgrounds and experiences.

Thanks  a lot to first joint CBU-BCBU summer school in Rovaniemi, hope to visit this city again.