Annual Report 2022

The year 2022 brought about many changes both at Arcada and in the outside world. A long-awaited return to campus and a new organisational structure meant a new everyday life to adapt to. The fundraising campaign for Arcada's 25th anniversary continued to be successful and already reached halfway to the goal at the end of the year.


Key Figures

2 732 Students 181 Staff 513 Graduates
1,6 M € External Research Funding 224 Publications and Productions  

In focus

Find out more about what happened at Arcada during the year by clicking on the links below.

Rector's review

The year 2022 was in many ways one of change and one of adapting to new realities. The academic year commenced with a new organisational structure for Arcada. The work of developing new guidelines and processes to fit the new structures began before the new model was introduced, and continued throughout the first academic year.

Ethics and trustworthiness have advanced artificial intelligence research

During the year artificial intelligence, or AI, was one the main areas of research focus at Arcada as the social impact of artificial intelligence increases. Ethics and trustworthiness became important concepts, not least at Arcada’s newly established Laboratory for Trustworthy AI. A substantial grant from the Ministry of Education and Culture and the appointment of an affiliated professor to the laboratory are other AI research milestones of the year.

Integrating international students is an important focus at Arcada

Arcada supports the government’s national aim of increasing the number of international students arriving in Finland and staying here. Arcada employs various projects and new models in order to integrate an increasing number of international students in working careers in Finland.

The Arcada Entrepreneurship Hub – a safe place for development and enterprise

The aim of the Arcada Entrepreneurship Hub was to create an environment where students feel confident to present their ideas for enterprises, where they feel free to think outside the box and to meet across branch boundaries. The first pre-incubator program of the autumn brought out several business ideas, three start-ups and, above all, a boost to the self-confidence of the students.