Hello! First off we would like to welcome all the new students to Arcada. By now you’ve a had some time to familiarize yourself with the building and hopefully noticed our office, located in E3. ArcadaES functions as bridge between the Arcada UAS and the Start-up scene, we have a strong connection to different players within different fields of business and other entrepreneurship societies. We are a student driven organisation…
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 moreHello all, What a marvelous success FallUp 2017 turned out to be! A lot of preparations went into this the event but it was definitely worth it on so many levels. Thank you Aalto Entrepreneurship Society and the whole team of volunteers who made FallUp this year. We got to represent the ecosystem and community and it was AESome. We got the pleasure to meet a lot of familiar and…
Read moreFuture change maker; the adventure of your life awaits you! Would like to be jumping of joy as in the picture above with people from all over Finland – all part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem? Would you like to be part of something unique and create movement? Would you like to create opportunities for others and by that receive contacts and friends for life? Do you for example see yourself standing like…
Read moreDuring this course, we have had a great opportunity to actually design and create a business idea and more importantly to realize it as a web shop. It was an interesting and valuable opportunity to get to know the software and the whole process in setting up and running a web shop. Vilkas software is used in about a third of all the Finnish web shops, which meant that we…
Read moreCan you imagine a world without online shopping? Without nice pictures in the store and an awesome design? Nowadays you can find everything online from clothes to diapers and order it 24/7, which is quite awesome. Even better in this case is that we have a course at Arcada, which teaches you how to build your own webstore! You think now: “My own webstore? Really? I am sure we need…
Read moreVi, tredje årets marknadsföringsstudenter vid Arcada samlades i början av december vid K-Market Mustapekka i Åggelby för att göra en undersökning med Eye Tracking glasögon och Smartcart. Vårt uppdrag var att analysera processen när kunder köper varor i en matbutik. Undersökningen som vi gör är en del av kursen “Framtidens detaljhandel”, vars målsättning är att ge oss insikt i framtidens detaljhandel ur ett strategiskt och innovativt perspektiv. Undersökningen vi gjorde i…
Read moreThe 11th and 12th of November 2015, some students from Arcada had the opportunity to participate to the biggest business and innovation event in Helsinki, SLUSH. This event was organized almost only by volunteers to help startups and talented people to show their ideas and meet investors to allow them make their dreams come true; as well to have a collaboration with others startups and companies. This year, 15.000 attendees,…
Read moreI have just finished an ICT course with almost 500 students. To make this work smoothly I’ve decided to jump on a (relatively) new trend in education called Flipped classroom. The idea is simple, you let the students absorb the knowledge at home (or wherever they are), and when they come to class you do the real work to understand and apply the newly acquired knowledge. In my case, I…
Read moreÄven om majoriteten av studerande i Arcada är så att säga “inhemska” finns det en hel bunt internationella studeranden och därtill också utbytesstuderanden som studerar här mellan en termin och ett läsår. Det här året finns det över 50 utbytesstuderanden från runt om i världen så man kan säga att Arcada är en ganska internationell skola. Majoriteten studerar förstås på engelskspråkiga utbildningar så de som studerar vid svenska linjer kommer inte…
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