 Funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the academy is a master class based educational project for selected, highly talented young Finnish violinists.Vähälä has worked as a professor of violin at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold 2009-2012 and at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe 2012-2019.Since autumn 2019 she is a professor of violin at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna.