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City: Helsinki

State: Southern Finland

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Country: Finland

FRUCT association was established in 2007 aiming to improve university education in IT and telecommunications in Finland and Russia by setting closer links between industrial R&a;D and top universities. Nowadays FRUCT is one of the largest academia-to-industry open innovations frameworks in the region. FRUCT unites research groups from 27 regional organizations (http://www.fruct.org/members), including universities, R&a;D center of Russian Academy of Sciences and R&a;D units of Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks. FRUCT is a sister society of IEEE ComSoc in Russia, Finland, Denmark and Ukraine (http://host.comsoc.org/sistersocieties/fruct/index.html). In addition FRUCT has started to export best practices and developed competences to other regions, e.g., actively developing partnering contacts in India. Over 100 researcher and developers are active members of FRUCT association. Also the community has over 1500 followers, the main web resources of FRUCT association register 1’200–1’500 visit per day. FRUCT members are involved in R&a;D work in many fields, and the priority areas are: Mobile Healthcare and Wellbeing, Qt and cross-platform development, Mobile Linux, Internet of Things, Future services and Smart Spaces and a number of other areas.

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