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  • INVEST Receives PHE Star Award at EURASHE 33rd Annual Conference

    The INVEST European University Alliance was honored with the PHE Star Award for Applied Research and Innovation at the EURASHE 33rd Annual Conference, held on May 22-23, 2024, at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences in St. Pölten, Austria. Every year, EURASHE gathers the Higher Education community to discuss and draft a shared path…

  • Karelia hosted the kick-off meeting for INVEST Work Package 3

    Last week, Karelia University of Applied Sciences (UAS) hosted the physical kick-off meeting for INVEST Work Package 3 – “Student and Staff Journey” at Wärtsilä and Tikkarinne campuses. The event brought together colleagues from the seven universities involved in the INVEST alliance, including those working in coordination, entrepreneurship, mobility, admissions, student involvement, and wellbeing. Karelia…

  • The Vice President of Karelia UAS is changing

    The Vice President of Karelia University of Applied Sciences is changing, as the current Vice President, Pekka Auvinen, will retire starting from August 1, 2024. In February 2024, the Board of Karelia University of Applied Sciences Ltd. selected Dr. Marjo Nenonen as the new Vice President. Marjo Nenonen will start her duties as Vice President…

  • Karelia Entrepreneurship Expo 2024

    Karelia University of Applied Sciences organizes the first Karelia Entrepreneurship Expo on 23rd April 2024, in Wärtsilä Campus, Joensuu. The event will showcase a unique selection of live company interviews and local best practices. All colleagues, students, and local representatives interested in entrepreneurship are welcome to join us!  At the end of the day, Karelia will award distinguished…

  • Karelia University of Applied Sciences passed FINEEC’s audit

    Karelia University of Applied Sciences has successfully passed the audit conducted by the National Education Evaluation Centre, FINEEC (Karvi). As a result, Karelia University of Applied Sciences has been awarded a quality label that is valid for six years. The audit team commended Karelia for its well-established quality system within the university community. This system…

  • Karelia Launches Language-Supported Nursing Education in Fall 2024

    At Karelia University of Applied Sciences, a language-supported nursing education program will commence in the fall 2024. Twenty-five nursing students with an international background will embark on their studies with language support. The primary language of instruction is Finnish, but during the first two years, Russian will be used to facilitate learning. This program is…

  • Karelia UAS is looking for International Officer

    Karelia University of Applied Sciences is looking for International Officer for the duration of the job alternation leave for 2.4.-10.7.2024. The substitute must be an unemployed jobseeker. Internationality is one of the strategic aims of Karelia University of Applied Sciences (Karelia). Karelia2030 strategy identifies five main areas to work with and develop until 2030 to…

  • Successful launch of INVEST Alliance’s new phase in Reims, France.

    Karelia UAS and other members of the INVEST alliance participated in the kick-off meeting of the new four-year period (2024 – 2027) of INVEST, organized by the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne in Reims, France, from January 22 to 24, 2024. This three-day festive and administrative meeting provided an opportunity to strengthen relationships between partner universities’…

  • Sustainability Management programme most attractive in the first joint application of the spring

    In the first joint application of the spring, which ended on January 17, 2024, a total of 2083 applicants from Finland and abroad applied to Karelia UAS. Karelia had four international, English-taught bachelor’s degree programmes, with a total of 125 starting places. The most popular of these was the Degree Programme in International Business, which…

  • Joint application to English-taught bachelor’s and master’s is open 3-17 January 2024

    Joint application to English-taught bachelor’s and master’s is open 3-17 January 2024. Karelia University of Applied Sciences has four English-language programmes open for application: Industrial Management, International Business, Information and Communication Technology, and the Sustainability Management programme, which is included in the application process for the first time. In the Sustainability Management programme students study…