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Category: Internationalisation

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…