Hi and greetings from Fort Lauderdale, Florida! Its been warm and sunny. This blog post is continuing the intelligencehunt #5 blog post. Those who know, the team I was part of won the intelligencehunt competition in Oslo this summer, and our prize was to attend the Ocean Exchange as VIP guest in Fort Lauderdale. This happened a few weeks ago. Our team travelled to Miami and enjoyed a couple of…
Read moreDuring the first week of this semester, all new students (N=684) in our bachelor programmes were invited to participate in a survey called Me and My Knowledge. The students completed the web survey during scheduled sessions, and (most probably) due to this arrangement, we managed to collect 521 responses, out of which the major part is complete. Our sincerest thanks to all participating students! With 71 statements, the web survey…
Read moreTomas Träskman, Degree Programme Director: Cultural Management, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS. Since many of the students of Cultural Management write their thesis immersed in practice I often arrange supervision in the environment where they actually do that practice. At times it can be really inspiring. In connection to one such supervision, I had the opportunity to take part in “Creative Mornings” an event all around the…
Read moreDear readers! We are pleased to, finally, be able to announce that our project final seminar is drawing near! Held at Arcada UAS (Helsinki Finland) 14.11.2019 from 10.00-16.00 local time, there is an option of attending in person OR globally online. So, wherever you may be reading this, you have the possibility to join us! We have chosen to call our seminar “The home-care jigsaw: bridgning the pieces together in…
Read moreThe spring and the summer, have been a busy time for Toteemi at Arcada. We have, during the spring, completed and refined all of the planned Toteemi initiatives and the active dissemination has started. At the Nordyrk conference we had both posters and oral presentations. Our initiatives focused on diversity and recognition of competencies among foreign students (especially students who had a degree or profession from their home country), on…
Read moreTeam NURED is soon ready for a well-deserved summer break, but before this we would like to share some of the things that we have been up to during this spring! As Lead Partner representative I, Anu Grönlund, went on a road trip visiting all partners and participated in all focus groups discussions that we had planned to conduct during the spring. The aim of the focus group discussions was…
Read moreVi tog oss utanför biblioteket för att ta reda på vad studenterna tycker om vår kommunikation. Några dagar på språng i studentkorridorerna gav oss ledtrådar, men också en chans att synliggöra våra informationskanaler. Vad vi ville veta Eftersom vi upplevt att det är svårt att nå ut till studenterna med biblioteksinfo beslöt vi göra en minienkät. Målet var att få en snabb idé om vad studenterna tycker. Som verktyg använde…
Read morePaul 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…
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