Category: Articles
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From templates to classroom – Plan, Do, Check, Act of Curriculum Development in International Teams
10 joint Bachelor programmes (Specialisation years), four Master Programmes and a PhD programme. All developed in just three years’ time in an international network that had just been established under European University Alliance programme. An immense effort that has required – but also awarded – a lot. At the end of the first project round,…
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International Conference of Urban Climate ICUC11: A perspective towards climate-conscious construction for building resilience in cities
The ICUC meetings are preeminent events for the presentation of research on urban climate, at all scales. This conference brings together a diverse international community of researchers, urban planners, designers, and policymakers. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) both ran successful international conferences on urban climate between…
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Pilot of hybrid training implemented as contact and remote simulations with paramedics and first response unit personnel in North Karelia
The objective of the Sote Hyte Living Lab – Codevelopment in North Karelia project (the Living Lab project) is to promote the capacity of private and public service providers and companies and organisations to benefit from the opportunities of technology and digitalisation to produce new kinds of solutions for social, health and well-being services in…
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Inclusion with digital tools
The Living Lab project (Sote Hyte Living Lab – Co-creation in North Karelia) worked together with Aistikanava, a company based in Outokumpu, to organise a two-week experiment for the Magic Mirror equipment in spring 2023. During the first week, the equipment was tested in Joensuu in Validia, a service provider of sheltered housing under the…
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International Hidden Business Champions Spring School in Joensuu
What are the competitive advantages of the Nordic companies in the global markets? Why they can be considered as hidden champions in their own market sector? These were the key questions to which we were seeking answers during our international spring school of Hidden Business Champions. Study Programme: lectures, workshops and visits During spring 2023…
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Digimentor and Digimentoring at Karelia UAS
Digital development has been rapid in the field of education. Karelia University of Applied Sciences has actively implemented digital and digipedagogical development since the early 2000s. As part of the digital development strategy, the first digimentors in Karelia UAS started in 2018. The aim of the digimentors as part of the strategy is to support…
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Parallel publishing promotes open-access publishing culture in Karelia UAS
The Karelia University of Applied Sciences is committed to the Declaration for Open Science and Research 2020-2025, made by the Finnish research community. As part of this commitment, one of the areas that Karelia UAS is promoting is open access publishing. This means that all publications produced by the staff of Karelia are openly available…
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Student communication was reformed in Karelia UAS
Karelia UAS’s student communication was reformed at the turn of the year when the Student Intra Pakki experienced a complete transformation. The redesign aims to take students’ wishes in particular into account, and that is why we asked for their opinions on the implementation of student communication in Karelia UAS. The aim of the survey…
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Attracting International Students to Karelia UAS Virtually
This article sheds a light on various activities of the One-stop Career Guidance –project (REACT ESF) has made to attract international students to apply to Karelia UAS for the next academic intake, Autumn 2023. To reach prospect applicants globally, the events have been organised virtually. The following paragraphs explain how the events were planned, organised,…
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Empowerment of Older People in International Collaboration between Karelia UAS and CUAS
In this article we aim to discuss the empowerment of older people through international collaboration in higher education. We focus on analysing some pedagogical objectives and choices to deepen activities that have already begun between the education institutions of Karelia UAS (Finland) and CUAS (Austria). We utilise a participatory action research framework to state our…