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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…

NURED Finland goes abroad – Simulation pedagogy exchange in Riga!

25.06.2018 Education, Projects, Research

Dear 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…

Arcada + Axxell + Prakticum = True!

16.08.2017 Education, Projects, Research

Welcome 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…

NURED Project implementation – How? What? Where?

17.05.2017 Education, Projects, Research

As 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…

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…

Be smart – Go international!

21.04.2016 Education, Entrepreneurship, Projects

Would you like to gain real-life working experience while studying? Are you interested in working with international companies or maybe helping companies in Finland to go international? Don’t miss excellent opportunities to take your first career steps while still at Arcada. Learn about EDU-SMEs project. EDU-SMEs project was launched by Arcada in autumn 2015. It is a collaboration of several universities of applied sciences, as well as small and medium…

Pedcafé 27.2.2014 – alternativ till föreläsningar?

06.03.2014 Student Life

Pedcafé den 27.2 kom igång trots diverse plötsliga annulleringar, och var slutligen lyckat även denna gång. Vi inledde med en kort presentation (by proxy) av Micke Forsströms projektbaserade approach. Det som är uttalat i Mickes upplägg är att det gruppbaserade projektarbetet inleds tidigt i kursen, med tydligt uttalade ansvarsområden för alla i gruppen. Detta eliminerar free-riders för alla måste ta sitt ansvar för helheten. Det andra var en tydlig sekvensering,…