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…
Read moreTeam 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…
Read moreDear NURED friends, A lot has been happening in the project recently! All project partners have been working together in workshops in Helsinki at Arcada UAS, where we tried to compile all of our results from the survey that we all have sent out to home care staff in our countries. It was interesting to work like this – together, discussing results and the questions that rose among use regarding…
Read moreKnowledge 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…
Read moreDear NURED blog readers, we hope your February is as sunny and snowy as beautiful Helsinki this week (…though perhaps a little warmer, as we are enjoying temperatures of -16*!). Or as equally beautiful Eskilstuna – the headquarters of NURED’s Swedish Team! In this blog we’ve already introduced you to Finland’s, Estonia’s and Latvia’s teams, and last but not least: here are some greetings from Mälardalen University. “Hi all NURED…
Read more“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…
Read moreDear 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…
Read moreWelcome back to the NURED blog, we hope you’ve all enjoyed this whirlwind of a summer! (We were going to write something witty about the weather in Finland this summer, but we guess the silly weather conditions are already old news…) The project world is always a little quiet during the summer, but we’ve actually gotten some excellent work done here in Finland before our summer holidays that we will…
Read moreAs our two previous blog entries enlightened you mostly about why our project is important and who’s behind it, You may have begun to wonder how NURED will actually be carried out. How can we reach such ambitious goals – which steps are necessary along the way? Even though we obviously feel the NURED Project is very special and unique, it works like many other projects do: by gathering information…
Read moreDear 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,…
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