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  • Dark sky tourism – perspective for green business

    Karelia UAS has implemented the use of immersive technologies in the marketing communication of companies’ products and services in international cooperation, e.g. in the Digi2Market project. This co-development gave confidence to networking and innovated a new perspective to further explore and investigate the usability of new technologies to support different business opportunities. The Irish partners…

  • INVEST European University – why it is needed and what it is all about?

    Erasmus+ European Universities is a flagship programme developing higher education in a more ambitious and holistic manner than ever seen before. The programme sets goals high: the alliances are expected to reshape the higher education programmes to meet the ideal of the European degree, create a completely new kind of physical and virtual inter-European campus…

  • Exploring the Horizon of Timber Construction: Building a cross-boundary community of data-driven practice

    Today’s world is facing a challenge due to climate change, worldwide population growth, energy demand, increased infrastructure demand, and alarming resource scarcity. The construction industry has been identified as one of the major catalysts of the adverse effects of climate change. It is crucial to reinvent the best practices through benchmarking to achieve carbon neutrality…

  • INVEST4EXCELLENCE builds human capacity for more sustainable supply chains

    Holistic internationalisation and the promotion of sustainable development in all our actions are among the key strategic aims of Karelia University of Applied Sciences. This development work is in turn supported by the three-year Horizon2020-funded project INVEST4EXCELLENCE. The project is elaborated by the INVEST European University, which is an educational and research community of five…

  • 30 Years of Nordplus Cooperation

    Nordic cooperation at Karelia has its roots in the 1990s. Financed by the Nordic Council, the Nordplus programme has provided funding for student and teacher mobility, development programmes and short intensive courses. The first Nordplus networks at Karelia were founded in health care. Over 30 years of cooperation, the number of partner universities has varied…

  • The ENDURANCE project – How to harness sport skills in entrepreneurship

    The international ENDURANCE project has mapped the links between sport and entrepreneurship and has developed new innovative educational solutions. Online training material was developed in the project to improve and promote entrepreneurship education and vocational training in the vocational education and training ecosystem. The ENDURANCE project had eight partners from seven countries. It consisted of…

  • Research through Internship Activities in the SBTCP project – A Student’s Perspective

    The ”Sustainable Building Technologies- Community of Practice” (SBTCP) project by Karelia UAS in collaboration with Salzburg UAS and Jade UAS has been playing an eminent role in bringing international students from cross-border countries together. As a significant part of this international collaboration, SBTCP project is hosting the internship activities of an international bachelor student Dominik…

  • Responsible tourism benefits businesses, local communities and tourists

    Ethical Tourism Recovery in Arctic Communities  -project (ETRAC) looked at how the tourism sector could recover from the pandemic. In particular, the aim was to identify how to promote ethical tourism. One of the objectives of the project was to provide information on ethical tourism etiquette and practices to tourists who may not be familiar…

  • Historical Silk Roads to Uzbekistan and Paths to Excellence at Karelia UAS

    This is the story of five young courageous Uzbek students who decided to come to Karelia UAS, Finland, to study during the Covid pandemic. Despite difficulties, they finally succeed in adapting to Karelia UAS and to the Finnish society. This article hopefully inspires young people to seek their life excellences in Finland and at Karelia…

  • Disruptive Technologies in the Public Sector

    A partner in both the TG4Np and Improve Projects from ERNACT Ireland contacted us at the end of the 2014-2020 NPA funding period. Traditionally, at the end of the funding period, extra money is distributed, and now the opportunity had come to get a research project funded about advanced technologies. The reasons for co-operation were…