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Category: Internationalisation

  • Inter­na­tion­al­is­ing Student Union POKA

    The Student union POKA of Karelia Univer­sity of Applied Sciences is strongly involved in the Cultural Diver­sity of Study Paths project. For POKA, the project is developing: The first step: Inter­na­tional Division POKA is strongly bilin­gual and equity and the “come as you are” theme have long been reflected in POKA’s activ­i­ties, commu­ni­ca­tions, services and…

  • Entre­pre­neur­ship educa­tion and ecosys­tem in Cordoba, Spain

    I spent a week in Cordoba, Spain in March (18.-22.3.2024) as a visit­ing teacher supported by Erasmus mobil­ity program. My host was Univer­sity of Cordoba (UCO), which is a new partner for Karelia UAS and also a new member of the INVEST Alliance. Cordoba is situ­ated in the south­ern Andalu­sia region. It has roughly 300 000…

  • Yosra Yahya has found her place in North Karelia

    Yosra Yahya, a student at Karelia Univer­sity of Applied Sciences, will soon grad­u­ate as an engi­neer from the Indus­trial Manage­ment degree programme. The young woman who moved from Saudi Arabia to Eastern Finland has achieved a lot in a couple of years – in addi­tion to her studies, she has learned Finnish, volun­teered and got…

  • INVEST Teacher’s Hand­book – a tool for systemic pilot­ing and imple­men­ta­tion of INVEST specialisations

    How to get started with INVEST peda­gogy? Where to find infor­ma­tion on teacher mobil­ity? Who to contact when you have prob­lems with Moodle? A new lecturer start­ing to teach on INVEST special­i­sa­tion years may face many prac­ti­cal chal­lenges. In order to help him/ her get started, we have created a tool called INVEST Teacher’s Handbook.…

  • Pilot­ing Sustain­able Commu­ni­ties in Energy Tran­si­tion -special­i­sa­tion studies in inter­na­tional collaboration

    Karelia Univer­sity of Applied Sciences piloted the INVEST BSc special­i­sa­tion Sustain­able Commu­ni­ties in Energy Tran­si­tion during semes­ter 2022-2023 for a small group of inter­na­tional and Finnish students. The special­i­sa­tion included five advanced courses, total­ing 30 ECTS points, and is a part of Karelia’s Energy and Envi­ron­men­tal Tech­nol­ogy degree program. The curricu­lum devel­op­ment and the first…

  • Joint curricu­lum devel­op­ment: an iter­a­tive and incre­men­tal process

    This article describes some elements of the joint curricu­lum devel­op­ment process of the bach­e­lor and master degree programs of the Euro­pean Univer­sity Alliance INVEST (INno­Va­tions of REgional Sustain­abil­ity: Euro­pean Univer­siTy). It was an inter­est­ing expe­ri­ence. To coop­er­ate in an effec­tive way with inter­na­tional colleagues having differ­ent educa­tional back­grounds, disci­plines and expe­ri­ences, was both an iter­a­tive…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • Video: Inter­na­tional talents – compa­nies’ point of view

    This video presents expe­ri­ences of Karelia UAS’s inter­na­tional students’ trainee­ships at key partner orga­ni­za­tions. Repre­sen­ta­tives of Arbo­naut Oy, Euro­pean Forest Insti­tute and Phillips Medi­s­ize Oy have shared their ideas on what is it like to work with inter­na­tional talents, what bene­fits can a company get from this expe­ri­ence and why should these students be given…