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The aim of this essay is to give an overview about recent developments of the government innovation funds of Sweden and Finland. In order to discover recent developments basic knowledge regarding innovation funds, funding structures and information about the two big funding agencies Vinnova Sweden and Business Finland is presented. Building on this information, the developments of the two funding agencies are compared and examined for similarities and differences. Both countries have a very similar structure in terms of the R&D sector and are striving with the same issues. Just as sustainability is a leading issue, the collaboration between the different shareholders is another main challenge. Both topics were negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Both Sweden and Finland had to really push forward innovation with financial support and political, strategic goals. Even though there are strong recent developments, the countries are facing the same challenges, do have similar funding structures and therefore have no big comparative strengths or weaknesses to each other.
The Projekt-Sweaty is a project of the University of Applied Sciences of Offenburg, an autonomous robot is being developed that competes against a set of several international colleges and universities in the RoboCup.
"Sweaty" is a soccer-playing humanoid robot who participated in the RoboCup World Cup in Brazil for the first time in 2014.
RoboCup is a competition aimed at developing a robot soccer team that surpasses the human world champion team. The competition started in 1997 the first official RoboCup games and conferences were held with great success. More than 40 teams took part and more than 5,000 spectators attended. RoboCup’s rules change to promote advances in robot science and technology and to bring the league’s challenges closer to the real world.
Building a robot that plays football will not in itself generate a significant social and economic impact, but the realization will certainly be considered an important success for the field of robotics.
Thanks to the interaction of all the faculties, the team consists of professors and students from the fields of mechanical and process engineering, electrical engineering, information technology, and information and media technology. Students can use the project during their studies and use the knowledge acquired in practice to implement and through their own creative ideas complement.