Paul D. Savage was our guest speaker for strategy workshop that took place here in Arcada building in our very own eye tracking room. Although young in age, Paul had been in many countries, done great many things and experienced a lot in his life. This also came out in his presentation as Paul was sharing his insights to things like entrepreneurial mindset, self-motivation, 5 levels of recognition, personal plan…
Read moreWell now, this was our third company visit, to Tieto to see and experience their emphatic building. I have quite a mixed feeling about this. The space is fantastic, and they have such a great views to the bay of Keilalahti! Tieto is a Finnish company developing software for various fields of industries. They are aiming for data-driven societies and to have smarter society (Tieto, 2019). We first got a…
Read moreOur journey to search for developing a new learn concept has started. Our second company visit was to a place that is one step ahead of reality: Coptersafety – a flight training center that uses simulators based on real operating environments. Helicopter pilots from all over the world come to this unique base to learn to overcome different challenging situations, which makes a perfect destination to our journey. The company…
Read moreNew experiences, lifelong learning and continuous development are the things that I cannot imagine my life without. I am constantly looking for opportunities to become a better version of myself, acquire new and develop existing soft skills. I could talk forever about the importance of employability/ soft/ transferable/ global/ 21st century/etc. skills, but what I know is that without them – I couldn’t achieve many things… Thus, when a new…
Read moreA few years back I picked up a copy of ‘The Lean Start-up‘, a best-selling book by Eric Ries. At the time, the lean movement had already gone viral. Lean start-ups were, and still are, practicing something called agile development, which originated in the software industry. Agile development was revolutionary as it worked hand-in-hand with the customer. Unlike typical lengthy product development cycles that made assumptions or educated guesses about…
Read moreWe are 13 forward-thinking students with seven different nationalities with a task. We have taken a challenge and will develop, during the spring of 2019 a new learning concept for intra- and entrepreneurial learning at Arcada. The course “Creating work life skills in an entrepreneurial environment” is a part of the Arcada Coaching Clinic project, where Arcada staff is coaching us throughout our journey, although we are the ones leading…
Read moreI kursen Aktivitet och Social Innovation hade vi som uppgift att välja en utsatt grupp i samhället och komma på en innovation. Som målgrupp valde vi HBTQ+ personer. HBTQ+ är ett paraplybegrepp som innefattar personer tillhörande en sexuell minoritet eller en könsminoritet. HBTQ+ personer har större risk till mental ohälsa, som t.ex. depression, ångest, posttraumatisk stress, självmordsförsök o.s.v. Detta kan ha sin grund i bl.a. diskriminering, fördomar och negativt bemötande samt attityder. Även att t.ex. hemlighålla sin…
Read moreNiclas Hallgren, Technical Operations Manager, Institutionen för Kultur och Media, Arcada UAS An intercom system enables the production team to communicate with each other, it can have many different forms for example studio cameras have built-in intercom systems. At Arcada, we use smaller cameras both for field work and in the studio. The basic parts of an intercom system are a beltpack and a base station. A beltpack is…
Read moreHey! My name is Joel, I am the President of the Arcada Entrepreneurship Society’s board for 2018. I hope that all of you have had a good start of this year! First, I would like to thank Johan Björkman for his great work effort as Chairman of AES during 2017. Without this smooth transition it would’ve been more challenging for me to take over the post as President of the…
Read moreIn the course Leadership and service design at Arcada, autumn 2017 students innovated health solutions for different societal challenges. This text is written by Albert Vidal, Martin Müller, Luis Bautista Sanchez, Francisco Mujica Tacoronte and Nonye Anasonye. The starting point for this work is the investigation focus on: what is the effectiveness of health education through an app in the learning of healthy eating habits and practices compared to non-intervention,…
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