LAB Focus Blogs
The blogs of LAB's four focus areas bring forth each focus area’s RDI and education activities.
Publication series
The LAB publication series publishes reports, monographs and compilations based on the RDI and higher education teaching activities at LAB.
All publications in the series are available online via Theseus.
About publishing in LAB
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Latest articles
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Creating a floodable park as a solution to stormwater floods in Can Tho University Campus
Can Tho, the fourth-largest city in Vietnam, experiences significant flooding each year. A master plan is being developed for the Can Tho University campus, located in the city centre, with the goal of promoting sustainability, preserving the green environment, and protecting the area from stormwater flooding through Nature-Based Solutions (NbS). As part of this effort, NbS will be planned and implemented in the park on the campus, to serve as a foundation for integrating them into the master plan for the entire campus. Source
Drop off your clothes – do good for the community
Collaboration in terms of a joint Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) on the course of Global Citizenship and Sustainable Innovations continued with htw Saar from Germany and Avans University of Applied Sciences from the Netherlands. LAB University of Applied Sciences welcomed a diverse group of German and Dutch students to learn about how to deal with textile waste, to learn about global citizenship and to enjoy a true Finnish winter. Source
Decoupling Is Not Enough: Designing New European Digital Technology
Europe is distancing itself from American digital platforms. Alongside this shift, there is an opportunity to develop European software according to Industry 5.0 principles—human-centricity, sustainability, resilience. But such principles remain abstract without criteria that make them binding. This article focuses on the meso level: procurement, governance, and accountability structures where design decisions take effect. Source
LAB Focus
The Culture Map: A framework for smarter international leadership
Global teams are the norm today, and cultural misunderstandings are increasingly common. How should leaders respond when, say, an Indian employee sees a French colleague as rigid and inflexible, while a British employee finds the same colleague as disorganized and untimely? (Meyer 2022). The culture map framework Geert Hofstede’s Cultures and Organizations: Software of the […] The post The Culture Map: A framework for smarter international leadership appeared first on LAB Focus.
Knowledge transferred across countries
Research-based knowledge plays a key role in regional development, but its impact is realized when it is translated into real-life decisions, services, or innovations (Pusenius 2026). This process, known as knowledge transfer, is important for higher education institutions (HEIs) and is also a central part of the KnowledgeAnalytics project. KnowledgeAnalytics is an Interreg Europe project […] The post Knowledge transferred across countries appeared first on LAB Focus.
From startups to scale-ups: How EU policy is shaping growth
The CODEUNITED project team attended Slush on 20─21 November 2025 in Helsinki as part of project activities funded by the EIT HEI programme. Slush is one of the world’s leading startup and technology events, held annually in Helsinki. It brings together startups, scale-ups, investors, policymakers, corporates, and universities to accelerate innovation, entrepreneurship, and global growth. […] The post From startups to scale-ups: How EU policy is shaping growth appeared first on LAB Focus.