Updated 18 September 2025
Boosting innovation and entrepreneurship in the RUN-European University (RUN InnoBoost) is a European project that strengthens the role of RUN-EU institutions in driving innovation, entrepreneurship, and regional development. RUN InnoBoost is built around three strategic themes: 1) Building Innovative Institutions, 2) Empowering People, 3) Creating Interregional Innovation Pipelines.
A key activity of the second theme, Empowering People, is enhancing the entrepreneurial and innovation skills of students, teachers, and researchers. This includes organising educational activities, such as educational programmes and workshops. RUN InnoBoost will also organize educational sessions in targeted RUN-EU events.
The purposes of processing personal data are:
RUN InnoBoost is a cooperation project between:
Lead Partner Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) and Project Partners: Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPL), Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave (IPCA), Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (TUS), Stichting NHL Stenden Hogeschool (NHL Stenden), FHV – Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences (FHV), Howest University of Applied Sciences (Howest), University of Burgos (UBU), StartUp Leiria, Momentum.
Duration of the project: 1.4.2025-30.4.2027
This is a one-off project. The project is funded by the Higher Education Initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology / EIT Food of the European Union.
Kirsi Vesterinen
+358504761824
kirsi.vesterinen@hamk.fi
PL 230 (Visamäentie 35 A), 13101 Hämeenlinna
Director responsible for the project: Annukka Pakarinen
Individuals entitled to process data during the project:
The processing of personal data is based on:
The processing is necessary for the performance of the statutory educational mission of higher education institutions, including jointly organized study modules that promote students’ academic progress, accessibility of education, and lifelong learning.
The project collects the following personal data:
Data collected
Retention period
Name
Information will be archived for 15 years after the end of the project
Email address
Information is destroyed after the end of the activity for which information was collected
RUN-EU institute to which a person belongs to
Role (student/ academic staff/ non-academic staff/ other)
Information will be pseudonymized and archived for 15 years after the end of the project
Country of citizenship
Country of residence
Gender (female/ male/ prefer not to say)
The data subjects include:
Data received from the person participating in the project activities and, where necessary, the study registers or other registers of the RUN-EU institutions.
The recipients of the personal data are:
A Manual material
Any physical data material that includes personal data will be retained in a locked facility that can only be accessed by appointed persons entitled to access the material to perform their duties.
The physical data material including personal data will be retained only for the duration and to the extent necessary for the original or compatible purposes. After this, the material is, if needed, transferred into electronic format and the physical material is destroyed in a secured manner.
B Electronic material
Data is collected using Microsoft Forms or Webropol or Zoom tools to which users have personal user IDs. Access is granted only to those persons who are entitled to access and use the data in the system in order to perform their duties.
Data is stored in an information system. Users have personal user IDs. Access is granted only to those persons who are entitled to access and use the data in the system in order to perform their duties.
In case of pseudonymized personal data, the pseudonymization keys will be stored separately in a secure location with restricted access.
The lawful processing of personal data is ensured by categorisation of data and with operating methods that are in compliance with the data handling rules concerning data set.
Controller is Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK).
Contact details
Häme University of Applied Sciences,
Telephone: +358 3 6461, e-mail address: hamk@hamk.fi
Name of data protection officer (if applicable)
Kirsi Laaksonen
tietosuojavastaava@hamk.fi
Häme University of Applied Sciences Ltd, data protection officer, P.O. Box 230, FI-13101 Hämeenlinna
No automated decision-making is performed on the recorded data.
No data is transferred outside the EU or EEA.
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) provides the data subject with the following rights:
Right to withdraw consent
The data subject shall have the right to withdraw his or her consent at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal of consent. (Article 7).
Right of access by the data subject
The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed. The data subject shall have the right to access to the personal data concerning him or her. Where requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of their repetitive character, the data controller may charge a fee or refuse to act on the request. (Article 12 and Article 15).
Right to rectification
The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the data controller the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her contained in the register (Article 16). A request for rectification shall be submitted in writing. In some information systems, persons using the system can correct their own data.
Right to erasure
The data subject shall have the right to request the erasure of personal data concerning him or her where one of the following grounds applies (Article 17):
However, the data subject does not have the right to delete the data in the studies if the deletion of the data is likely to prevent the processing concerns or to greatly impede it.
Right to restriction of processing
The data subject shall have the right to obtain restriction of processing where one of the following applies (Article 18):
Right to data portability
Where the processing is based on consent and carried out by automated means, the data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a data controller, in a machine-readable format (Article 20).
Requests to exercise these rights are to be submitted:
Häme University of Applied Sciences Ltd
Data protection officer
dpo@hamk.fi
P.O. Box 230 (Visamäentie 35A)
FI-13101 Hämeenlinna, Finland
Right to lodge a complaint
The data subject shall have the right to lodge a complaint with the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman, https://tietosuoja.fi/.
