Hello everyone! There is an additional portal where you can find additional activities related to the TyöPeda project. Check it out or better yet, sign-up to follow the progress at:https://www.researchgate.net/project/Tyoeelaemaepedagogiikka-korkeakoulutuksessa-Tyoepeda-Work-Integrated-Pedagogy-in-Higher-Education-WORKPEDA Warm wishes on this special morning of the blood moon, Denise
Niclas 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…
Yesterday, January 9th, members of the TyöPeda RD&I project spent an intensive day together while traveling to Tallinn and back. The day included identifying and developing the broad strokes that will become the core activities of our undertaking. This included discussions on the broad-based competencies we consider most vital and those that are aligned with the goals of this project; discussions about current business contacts and models as well as…
Arcada and Fortum Waste Solutions Oy (previously Ekokem) have been in a mutually beneficial collaboration for some years already. In June 2016 Fortum launched a Circular Economy Village for effective material recovery from various waste streams. Therein lies a plastic refinery to recover plastic materials from waste streams, even consumer waste. I was one of the students working as a project assistant in the preceding tests for the plastic…
Authors: Halima Kangau & Habib Raj (Arcada UAS) Introduction WHO (2018) defines eHealth as “the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for health. eHealth technology has opened ways in which information should be shared, received and used by the whole healthcare system hospital team in general. It is said that eHealth is one of the fastest growing solutions in the future of healthcare. Goran (2010a) defines Tele-ICU “as the use…
Authors: Ahmed B., Eklundh J., Hellström S., Lindvall J., Yenkong E., Hellstén T. Introduction WHO (2012) states that life expectancy has already exceeded 75 years in 57 countries in the world. In the next few years the number of people aged over 65 years in the population will outnumber children less than 5 years of age. With a growing older population there are also a number of factors regarding their…
Muoviyhdistys (the Finnish Plastic Association) organises seminar days annually for professionals in both extrusion and injection moulding technologies. This year I was sent to represent Arcada and project Teknetium in the event. Personally I chose to aim for making new industrial connections and looking for new ways to collaborate, new partners to work with and companies we could possibly visit with students from our Materials Processing programme. The event turned…
Authors: Daiga Garsila, Nursing student at Arcada-University of Applied Sciences (daiga.darsila@arcada.fi), Valentina Pontellato, Nursing student at Arcada-University of Applied Sciences (pontellato.valentina@arcada.fi), Kristine Refina Nursing student at Arcada-University of Applied Sciences (refinakr@arcada.fi), Josefina Sundman, Nursing student at Arcada- University of Applied Sciences (josefina.sundman@arcada.fi) Introduction Depression is common but often an unrecognized illness and a substantial cause for disability- retirement in Finland alongside with musculoskeletal disorders (Tiihonen, Tanskanen, Hoti, Vattulainen, Taipale, Mehtälä,…
Denise Villikka, Senior Lecturer in Nursing, Arcada UAS, (denise.villikka@arcada.fi) Christa Tigerstedt, Senior Lecturer in Business Administration, Arcada UAS, (christa.tigerstedt@arcada.fi) On the first Wednesday of November, members of faculty involved in the TOTEEMI project attended a seminar that was hosted by Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences. The main theme of this day was, Kokeile ja kehitä, which when translated to English could mean, Development through Experimentation. There were three presenters during…
Denise Villikka, Senior Lecturer in Nursing, Arcada University of Applied Sciences, (denise.villikka@arcada.fi) On 8 November, Arcada University of Applied Sciences hosted an event where approximately 200 individuals from around Finland met for a full day of presentations and discussions relating to the TYÖPEDA research, development and innovation project that is sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Culture. The main aim of this four-year collaboration is to develop new ways…