From design to competitive
Advantage
We build a sustainable and digital future together with companies and partners.
High-quality and functional solutions are created with design methods. Design looks for novelty value and distinctiveness in business development.
Our multi-skilled team tackles innovative experiments with an agile and effective design approach.
The expert in market-oriented design
Business services
Customer orientation and close cooperation with companies has made our services suitable for companies regardless of size and industry.
Development work is always a financial investment and we often make use of public business funding, with which we have years of experience.
- Product design
- Service design
- Brand and graphical design
- Customer experience and applications
- Business design and strategy work
Research, development and training
We research and apply design in the development of products, services and systems. We are known as a responsible and innovative partner.
We tackle global challenges and conceptualize sustainable growth with companies and partners.
- Digitalization and industrial service design
- Sustainable development and systems design
- Entrepreneurship, employment and design thinking
Growth incubator
West Coast Startup offers support for starting a company as well as developing and testing a business idea.
The incubator serves both new and already operating companies. We help develop innovations through versatile activities.
- Idea sparring and coaching
- Industrial service design
- Search for funding
- Spin Off -services
- Hackathons and workshops
VaasaHack hackathon goes Vaskiluoto
The IMPACT change campaign for the makers of the future culminated in the VaasaHack student hackathon. The hackathon was organized on the 27th-28th of November together with VAMK, VASEK and…
Promises and celebration at the IMPACT Change campaign
The IMPACT change campaign for the makers of the future continued last Thursday in the form of Design Think Tank and Design Lounge. In the Design Think Tank, a common…
Getting the IMPACT change campaign started with the Design Buffet
The coffee is brewing and the morning sun rises over the roofs of the Palosaari university campus, as young students gather at MUOVA for breakfast and brainstorming. Young people sit…
IMPACT change campaign for the makers of the future
Vaasa University of Applied Sciences’ Design Center MUOVA is an innovative development partner and a pioneer in design. We are celebrating our 35 years of design by turning our eyes…
A forerunner IN design
SINCE 1988
Design Centre MUOVA is the design unit of Vaasa University of Applied Sciences in Vaasa.
MUOVA was founded by the University of Applied Arts in 1988, and since then Muova’s mission has been to build the international competitiveness of SMEs through design.
Customers and cooperation
Contact information
Oy Vaasa University of Applied Sciences –
Vasa yrkeshögskola Ab
Design Centre MUOVA
Wolffintie 36 F2, 65200 Vaasa
Tel. +358 (0)50 568 5863
firstname.surname@muova.fi
Electronic invoicing
Online invoice address: 003722676693
Online invoicing operator: CGI
Operator broker ID: 003703575029
Reference: MUOVA
Paper invoices
Oy Vaasa University of Applied Sciences – Vasa yrkeshögskola Ab | Design Centre MUOVA
PO Box 509, 65101 VAASA, FINLAND
Reference: MUOVA
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