Founded in 2019, the learning, research, and innovation environment has grown over the years into an actor that goes beyond a purely social and health care perspective. TAMK WellTech Lab brings together expertise in technology, health, and wellbeing in a way that supports education, RDI activities, and collaboration with companies. The new name makes this role visible—both within TAMK and externally.
Why WellTech Lab?
WellTech Lab reflects the core values of the operating environment: multidisciplinarity, co-creation, the exploration of the use and development of technological solutions, and an understanding of wellbeing as a broad physical, psychological, and social phenomenon.
The laboratory’s seven-member core team brings together expertise from social and health care, industrial and health technology, data processing, and the built environment. This work is supported by an extensive, multidisciplinary internal sparring network at TAMK. The new name strengthens WellTech Lab’s role as a platform where expertise from different fields meets and gives rise to new solutions.
The WellTech Lab equipment includes a wide range of wellbeing and health technology solutions, from remote technologies to experiential environments, such as a 360-degree video cylinder and a sensory wall. Some of the equipment is owned by TAMK, while part of it has been acquired through collaboration with companies. This enables students and projects to engage with authentic working life contexts, ranging from theses to various projects and development activities.
Multidisciplinary collaboration in everyday practice
TAMK WellTech Lab is open to the entire TUNI community and serves as an active learning environment, particularly in social and health care education. In addition, companies and other external stakeholders regularly visit the lab. WellTech Lab has established its position as an internal meeting place at TAMK where education, student projects, and RDI activities intersect. Hackathons, service design projects, technology events, and student-led development work demonstrate how wellbeing solutions are built together—not in silos, but through dialogue across disciplines.
The lab supports companies, for example, in usability testing, Living Lab activities, and matters related to permit processes and ethical pre-assessment. The result is development work that benefits both companies and end users in a genuine and responsible way.
Looking ahead
With the name change, WellTech Lab is moving forward with a clear vision. The aim is to further deepen and expand collaboration across TAMK, contribute to and promote regional development, maintain and strengthen partnerships with companies and other organizations, and reinforce the higher education institution’s position as a multidisciplinary expert in wellbeing and health technology.
