Welcome to the Hearing Valley workshop

The first Hearing Valley workshop is held on May 21, 2025, from 12:00 to 17:00 at the University of Eastern Finland Kuopio Campus and on Microsoft Teams. The event is organized in collaboration with the University of Eastern Finland Brain Research Unit.

The workshop will feature a series of concise lectures introducing the Hearing Valley project and its stakeholders. Additionally, the keynote presentation will be delivered by Professor Frank Lin, Director of the Cochlear Center for Hearing & Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. The workshop is held in English.  

Program

  • 12:00-12:10 Welcome
  • 12:10-12:30 Hearing Valley
  • 12:30-12:45 University of Eastern Finland Department of Technical Physics
  • 12:45-13:00 Kuopio University Hospital
  • 13:00-13:15 University of Eastern Finland Brain Research Unit
  • 13:15-13:30 Break
  • 13:30-13:40 Cochlear
  • 13:40-13:50 Med-El
  • 13:50-14:10 Genelec
  • 14:10-14:20 Kuopio Health
  • 14:20-14:30 Neurocenter Finland
  • 14:30-15:00 Break
  • 15:00-15:45 Keynote presentation by Frank Lin: Hearing intervention and cognition: ACHIEVE trial results and methodologies  
  • 15:45-16:00 Break
  • 16:00-16:45 Keynote presentation by Frank Lin: Transforming Hearing through Evidence, Policy, and Awareness 
  • 16:45-17:00 Closing

Participation

The workshop is be organized as a hybrid event, allowing participation either in person at MS300 Medistudia, UEF Kuopio Campus, Yliopistonrinne 3, 70210 Kuopio, or virtually via Microsoft Teams.

A warm welcome to the Hearing Valley workshop!