{"id":3312,"date":"2018-09-14T11:48:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T08:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merinova.fi\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2026-09-09T10:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:45:59","slug":"suvi-karirinne-to-head-vebic-research-platform-at-university-of-vaasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merinova.fi\/en\/news\/suvi-karirinne-to-head-vebic-research-platform-at-university-of-vaasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Suvi Karirinne to head VEBIC research platform at University of Vaasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor of Science Suvi Karirinne, 46, has been appointed Director of the Vaasa Energy Business Innovation Centre VEBIC research platform of the University of Vaasa. VEBIC is an open multidisciplinary research and innovation platform focused on energy and sustainable development. Karirinne will take up her duties on 19 November 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuvi Karirinne has solid experience in managing RDI projects, as well as extensive networks across companies and financiers, which is important in managing and developing a research platform. Karirinne&#8217;s experience in building a business in renewable energy strengthens VEBIC&#8217;s position as a multidisciplinary research platform of energy and sustainable development,\u201d says Jari Kuusisto, the Rector of the University of Vaasa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.univaasa.fi\/en\/news\/karirinne_vebic_johtajaksi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.univaasa.fi\/en\/news\/karirinne_vebic_johtajaksi\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor of Science Suvi Karirinne, 46, has been appointed Director of the Vaasa Energy Business Innovation Centre VEBIC research platform of the University of Vaasa. VEBIC is an open multidisciplinary research and innovation platform focused on energy and sustainable development. Karirinne will take up her duties on 19 November 2018. \u201cSuvi Karirinne has solid experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,48,50,9,11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-news","category-nordic-and-international-news","category-pohjoismaat-ja-maailma","category-suomi","category-uutiset"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Suvi Karirinne to head VEBIC research platform at University of Vaasa - Merinova<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merinova.fi\/en\/news\/suvi-karirinne-to-head-vebic-research-platform-at-university-of-vaasa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Suvi Karirinne to head VEBIC research platform at University of Vaasa - Merinova\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Doctor of Science Suvi Karirinne, 46, has been appointed Director of the Vaasa Energy Business Innovation Centre VEBIC research platform of the University of Vaasa. 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