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Arcada – A Sustainable Study Choice in Helsinki, Finland

24.01.2023 ,

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

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 ,

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 ,

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 ,

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 ,

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 ,

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…

Visual Communication and Digital Media: Exploring the Science behind Visual Communication, and the Effects of Visual Media

22.11.2022 ,

Tanya Fahim We live in a highly visual world surrounded and triggered by visual signs, images and movement every single moment. It is claimed that visual media has become central to living a contemporary life. Due to technological development visual communication products are used more than ever in today’s consumption society. Since I work within the visual field my interest in visual communication and media has grown over the years…

Is it okay to give a hug?

08.11.2022 ,

Stories of Compassion and Elevation by Lotta Eronen and Jan Nåls, Arcada UAS A struggling colleague whom you don´t know needs help. Is it okay to give a hug? A distraught husband is visiting his sick wife in a nursing home. Can you offer him a beer? Such questions were raised in a course at Arcada UAS called ‘Compassion at Work’, with students and staff from healthcare, nursing, and media….

Advantages of Open Data: case COVID-19

03.11.2022 ,

Access to data is crucial in our society today. Much of the everyday life of individuals is centred around this access to data, from finding out what kind of weather it will be, what meetings will take place tomorrow, and what heartbeat and step count measures were recorded during the last workout. In the context of everyday life, much of the understanding we are trying to achieve is underpinned by…