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NURED Guest Blogger: Camilla Wikström-Grotell on sharing knowledge across borders

16.04.2018 Projects, Research

Knowledge networks as a success factor for creating new knowledge and ways of acting Collaboration with organizations of various kinds such as employers, other universities and research institutes is needed for sustainability and quality in higher education. A multicultural approach is fundamental in the daily life on campus of today, and it includes all core tasks of teaching and research. This affects not only the university’s all units, employees and…

Happy New Year – an update from the Latvian NURED team!

15.01.2018 Education, Projects, Research

“Laimīgu jauno gadu!” as they would say in beautiful Latvia – or Happy New Year 2018 from the entire NURED Project Team! We hope you have all enjoyed the holidays, and feel invigorated and ready for this new year of new possibilities. In this blog post we will take a closer look at the Latvian NURED Project Partner: Rīga Stradiņš University in Latvia, Rīga. Latvia, a member of the European…

Tere! Meet NURED’s Estonian team from Tallinn Health Care College!

23.10.2017 Education, Projects, Research

Dear readers of the NURED blog, Tervist! It is now time to introduce you to one of the partner countries of NURED: Estonia! Estonia’s population amounts to roughly 1,3 million, and at the end of year 2015 Estonia had approximately 7,900 employed practising nurses (Statista.com). Here are some greetings from the Estonian project team leader, Piret Tamme, Head of the Department of Vocational Training at Tallinn Health Care College: “NURED…

Meet the NURED Project Lead Partner: Finland!

10.04.2017 Education, Projects, Research

Dear readers, As promised, this week it’s time to get familiar with the NURED Project lead partner Finland & Arcada University of Applied Sciences. Finland is often presented as the land of a thousand lakes and summer villas. The land of dark winters, and a sun that never sets in the summer. The land of Mika Häkkinen, Jean Sibelius, Moomin trolls and Marimekko. There are 5.5 million of us Finns,…

“NURED” 101.

13.03.2017 Projects, Research

Welcome to the NURED Project blog on inside.arcada.fi, we are very happy that you found us! Here you will find updates about the project itself, as well as the talent behind it. But for now, let’s start at the very beginning: our logo. A good project needs a good name, so what does “NURED” stand for? Just letters thrown together, or something more? And what about the rest of the…