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Vappu – Finland’s most thrilling and adventurous national holiday

27.04.2023 Events, Student Life

There isn’t a more exciting thing for a Finn than seeing the sun after four months of complete winter darkness, which is why the celebration of Vappu is one of the largest and undoubtedly most spectacular festival-like outdoor celebrations in Finland. Read International Business student Vera Kapitonenko’s experience of Vappu! Vappu, also known as Labor Day, was originally meant to honor laborers and high school graduates, however, nowadays it’s mostly…

Key factors for successful collaboration identified in the SMARTNET project

15.03.2023 Cooperation, Projects

The project SMARTNET aimed to create a model for active and integrated business cooperation at Arcada, providing value for both the university and its partners. Several key factors for successful collaboration were identified, including clear guidelines, defined ownership and processes, personal contact, a CRM system, and named contact persons with regular follow-up. The findings were used to create an internal process description for staff and to propose collaborations with different…

Student blog: European Convention on Human Rights and the Protection of Private Life, Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in a Digital Age

10.03.2023 Alumni, Education

The title of my thesis is “European Convention on Human Rights and the Protection of Private Life, Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in a Digital Age”. The thesis examines the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (the ECtHR) concerning the rights to private life and freedom of expression on the Internet. The ECtHR has been criticized for its decisions in the field of private life or…

Arcada – A Sustainable Study Choice in Helsinki, Finland

24.01.2023 Education, Student Life

At Arcada University of Applied Sciences (UAS), sustainability plays a key role in all operations: in education, in research and on campus. We checked in with two of our students, Raffay Sultan (Mechanical and Sustainable Engineering) and Dan Chi Duong (International Business), to learn more about how Arcada’s work on sustainability is manifested in their everyday student life. Hi there Raffay, hi Chi! What does sustainability mean to you, as…

Nursing studies at Arcada: safe and culture-friendly with high-quality teaching

04.01.2023 Student Life

Did you know that Arcada has a unique patient safety and learning centre where students in the healthcare sector get to practice their future profession in a safe way? The learning centre, along with many other things, has made Nursing student Mushiatu convinced that Arcada was the right choice for her. “Being the centre for advanced technological experiences and diversified opportunities for the future is what I like most about…

Not All Who Wander Are Lost

03.01.2023 Alumni, Education

This famous line written by J.R.R. Tolkien, which appears in the first novel in the Lord of The Ring series, has been a way of encapsulating the idea of surrendering to your wanderlust. However, it can be argued that the true meaning of the line is that all who wander without an aim are lost. Wanderlust aside, I can definitely identify myself in the latter. It’s easy to just go…

A cryptocurrency stakeholder group that can bring about change to current cryptocurrency regulation

29.12.2022 Publication, Research

Currently, cryptocurrencies are mainly seen as a digital trading instrument as opposed to a currency or payment method. This holds true particularly in economically stable regions. However, one stakeholder group has the power to greatly influence the future adoption and direction of cryptocurrencies. This blog is based on a master’s thesis in the International Business Management MBA program at Arcada. Cryptocurrencies: a brief explanation Cryptocurrencies are virtual currencies that…

Exploring value co-creation and brand loyalty in online communities in China.

21.12.2022 Publication, Research

Wiktoria Marszałek China is home to the world’s largest digital society, with 1.02 billion people in the country legally recognised as netizens (Koetse, What’s on Weibo, 2018). For brands from the Rest of the World (RoW), it equals an invaluable resource: hundreds of millions of hyper-adaptive and hyper-adoptive consumers who have lived through unprecedented change and who make their country globally competitive today (Dychtwald, Harvard Business Review, 2021). To…

Humanisation of Media on Social Media

08.12.2022 Publication, Research

Elisa Arce Simmelink Communication has always been a critical factor that drives the connection between human beings. Throughout the years, modern life has allowed new technical means of communication to emerge. Mass media, with its one-way communication model, had no interaction, but with the rise of web 2.0, it re-humanised communication, and digital communications became crucial in all sectors worldwide. My experience as a content creator in social media since…

Podcasting and Finnish higher education

02.12.2022 Alumni, Research

Peter Björkroth The popularity of podcasts is growing. A growing number of podcasts, easy access, and constantly available technology for listening, including 4G connection basically anywhere in Finland, all add to ever increasing numbers of listeners. Many podcasts are educational. History, science and social sciences, medicine, media, business and economy, as well as crime, sex, sports and many more, are all represented in the vast variety of themes covered by…