Students and staff of Karelia UAS will return to campuses in autumn semester 2020 with special attention to restric­tions caused by coronavirus

Teaching at Karelia University of Applied Sciences will start in autumn semester 2020 according to the schedules announced previ­ously. New students begin their autumn semester in the last week of August. Students continuing their studies begin their studies at the beginning of September. The aim is to return to as normal activ­ities as possible, but we are prepared for the contin­u­ation of restric­tions that may be caused by the coron­avirus pandemic still in the autumn semester.

The aim for both students and the staff is to return to campuses at the beginning of the academic year as normally as possible. However, we are prepared for the contin­u­ation of restric­tions that may be caused by the coron­avirus pandemic still in the autumn semester. These restric­tions may include, for example, limiting the size of student groups in class­rooms, dividing bigger student groups into smaller groups, imple­menting some parts of contact teaching as online studies, and having contact lectures between 8am and 6pm.

Due to the coron­avirus pandemic, inter­na­tional mobility has been widely restricted. As a result, incoming students in English-mediated degree programmes (Inter­na­tional Business and Indus­trial Management) start their studies as distance learning. Inter­na­tional student exchanges (including both incoming and outgoing students) have also been cancelled during the autumn semester.

Karelia UAS actively monitors the situation with the coron­avirus and the related instruc­tions from the author­ities and acts accord­ingly. Any other possible restric­tions caused by the coron­avirus pandemic will be defined according to national guide­lines during the summer.