Dear 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…
The 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…
Team 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…
Vi 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…
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…
Well 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…
Du har säkert noterat att bibliotekssystemet låg nere för systembyte i månadsskiftet mars-april. Vårt nya system bygger på öppen källkod, och används av bibliotek i hela världen. KOHA, som systemet heter, betyder gåva eller donation på maorispråket. Trots att det innebar en stor förändring för personalen då systemet bakom Arcada Finna byttes ut, märks det inte så mycket för låntagaren. Arcada Finna ser i stort sett ut som förut med…
We are seven Arcada students who participated on a course in customer experience management in Håverud, Sweden from the 31st of March until the 6th of April. The ambition was to familiarize and learn more about customer experience management and to meet students from other Scandinavian and Baltic countries. There were participants from Finland, Åland Islands, Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. Thanks to our very own Arcada exchange students…
Our 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…
New 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…