As part of an ongoing EU Project The DIGAS Spring School project allowed for higher education students and teachers, who acted as a facilitators, to gather for 5 days in Vilnius. We were all set up in a hotel just around the corner from V. A. Graiciunas School of Management (AVM), as they were our host for this project. 39 people from 7 different schools in the EU and at…
Would you like to gain real-life working experience while studying? Are you interested in working with international companies or maybe helping companies in Finland to go international? Don’t miss excellent opportunities to take your first career steps while still at Arcada. Learn about EDU-SMEs project. EDU-SMEs project was launched by Arcada in autumn 2015. It is a collaboration of several universities of applied sciences, as well as small and medium…
During this course, we have had a great opportunity to actually design and create a business idea and more importantly to realize it as a web shop. It was an interesting and valuable opportunity to get to know the software and the whole process in setting up and running a web shop. Vilkas software is used in about a third of all the Finnish web shops, which meant that we…
Can you imagine a world without online shopping? Without nice pictures in the store and an awesome design? Nowadays you can find everything online from clothes to diapers and order it 24/7, which is quite awesome. Even better in this case is that we have a course at Arcada, which teaches you how to build your own webstore! You think now: “My own webstore? Really? I am sure we need…
Vi, tredje årets marknadsföringsstudenter vid Arcada samlades i början av december vid K-Market Mustapekka i Åggelby för att göra en undersökning med Eye Tracking glasögon och Smartcart. Vårt uppdrag var att analysera processen när kunder köper varor i en matbutik. Undersökningen som vi gör är en del av kursen “Framtidens detaljhandel”, vars målsättning är att ge oss insikt i framtidens detaljhandel ur ett strategiskt och innovativt perspektiv. Undersökningen vi gjorde i…
The 11th and 12th of November 2015, some students from Arcada had the opportunity to participate to the biggest business and innovation event in Helsinki, SLUSH. This event was organized almost only by volunteers to help startups and talented people to show their ideas and meet investors to allow them make their dreams come true; as well to have a collaboration with others startups and companies. This year, 15.000 attendees,…
It all started on the 10th of November, when we went to pick up our Slush tickets at Kamppi. Before we got there, we didn’t think that the event was that big! 15000 attendees, from 100 countries, and we only were 2 girls from France and Spain. The whole event was a good surprise and we were really happy to go there to discover a lot companies. Those two (really…
Another year, another SLUSH by Anna, Robin, and Stephan. We were three people with very different perspectives. As an exchange student, Robin had never attended SLUSH. As apart of Arcada Entrepreneurship Society, Anna saw SLUSH for the third time. Stephan knew a lot about SLUSH and felt privileged to attend and not just because our teacher finds it beneficial, which he is completely right about. For our class: Internationalisation of Small…
Who has expected that? We, Junho Kim and Seungil Kim got an opportunity to work as a salesman. On the first day of SLUSH we helped owner of Korean company as translators while we were walking around to visit company booths. One Korean company suggested us to work for them. So, on the second day, we work as employees. We tried to sale and promote their brands and products. Also,…
This year’s Slush gathered thousands of early stage companies, hundreds of investors and thousands of other attendees to the convention center Messukeskus in Helsinki. In the end, the total amount of tickets sold to the event was somewhere around 15000. As with previous years, the event for this year was also sold out. We, as students, were lucky enough to get our hands on these highly desired tickets and got…