Values of Team Nurmi

Some reasoning behind the values

As the research group is operating within Tampere University of Technology (TUT), it is natural that we share the values of TUT to a large extent. TUT values are to be scientific, persistent, communal, honest and reliable, exuberant, and supporting diversity. These values also apply to serving the scientific community in general.

As we are working in close cooperation with companies, we have to share some of their values, too. One of the main dogmas that keeps business running is productivity and profit earning capacity, in short: output. Output in some form is also what the funding agencies, governing bodies, and the society in general expect from us.

As the group consists solely of individuals who have their own personal targets and personal values, we need to share similar values with them, too. As these values may have a significant variance, we concentrate on having only such people in the group who can share the main values of the group. On the other hand, we take into account individual targets and acute situations as long as they are not in conflict with the group values in long run. One of the personal values we strongly respect is the attempt for personal development.

The values in brief are:

• Fairness
• fair use of scarce economic resources
• supportive spirit
• equal opportunities, rights and duties
• providing best effort as individual and as group
• scientific approach
• Openness
• sharing of ideas within the group
• publication of results on open forums whenever possible
• willingness for internal and external cooperation
• open interfaces to external associated individuals and groups
• transparency of funding and funding applications
• constructive criticism
• good communication towards partners
• honesty and reliability
• Efficiency
• providing best effort as individual and as group
• coherent targets for the individual, group, partner(s), university, and society
• output to satisfy the individual, group, partner(s), university, and society
• understanding before doing
• asking for advice when needed and not asking when not needed
• shared responsibility for obtaining funding for the research
• Diversity
• supporting diversity of ideas and thoughts to foster innovation
• allowing diversity of working methods
• multicultural group with rich international cooperation
• diversity of funding sources
• relatively broad research area
• various ways to get associated to the group
• Development
• solving scientific or technological challenges
• providing opportunities for personal development
• gaining knowledge and skills as group
• supporting career paths within and external to the group
• maintaining and improving the reputation of the group to benefit its members and other stakeholders

19.9.2007 in Tampere, Finland

Prof. Jari Nurmi