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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…