Welcome to Arcada's blog world

What is it like to move from the other side of the world to study at a university of applied sciences in Finland? What is the latest within research at Arcada? How is Arcada a truly sustainable study choice, according to the students themselves?

You can find answers to these questions and more in Arcada's blogs written by our students, researchers, alumni, partners and external guests.

Our scientific blog posts, marked publication, are part of Arcada's own publication series where each post is reviewed by an editorial board.

Marine biomass and circular value chains in the Baltic Sea

Marine biomass is gaining attention as a resource for circular and bio-based economies. In the Baltic Sea, biomass are often linked to eutrophication and environmental challenges. Despite abundant availability, much of this biomass remains underutilised due to technical, logistical, and economic barriers.

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Guardians of patient safety: The importance of healthcare students’ research and AI literacy

Healthcare students need research and AI literacy to navigate low-quality studies, fake citations, and AI-generated misinformation. Higher education must systematically embed these skills in curricula, preparing graduates to critically evaluate evidence and AI tools, and safeguard patient safety.

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Arcada – a space for experiencing new things

When Musawir arrived at Arcada to study in the Mechanical and Sustainable Engineering programme, he carried with him the confidence of someone who thought he knew what to expect. It didn’t take long for that certainty to shift. His first year unfolded like a slow recalibration, revealing just how much he still had to rethink, revisit, and rebuild.

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Self-awareness as the missing link in psychological safety: how leadership awareness connects behaviour, emotions, and team voice in healthcare.

Healthcare teams work in environments of constant pressure, time pressure, emotional pressure, and responsibility for human lives, with far too little space to pause (Kadović et al., 2022). In such settings, psychological safety has become a widely discussed concept. We know it matters.

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Nurses bridging north: Strengthening a diverse and sustainable workforce in the Nordic region

Internationally Educated Nurses (IENs) do not primarily struggle due to clinical incompetence. Rather, their integration into healthcare systems depends on factors such as language proficiency, credential recognition, workplace culture, and the extent to which employers provide meaningful structural support.

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Gamebadges, hidden competences, and why the friction matters

We presented Arcada's Gamebadges work at Supercell in April. Badges helped us spot hidden competences students were building but couldn't name. Proving individual work in team projects is hard, but that friction is the point. AI can help scale this without replacing real ownership or teacher judgment.

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The Reed Hackathon: From idea to product development

The Reed Hackathon at Arcada explored sustainable product design using common reed as a biocomposite. Through ideation, CAD, and 3D printing, a multifunctional product was developed, showing the value of early design decisions and hackathons for innovation.

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In the Age of AI: Who and what counts in open innovation

Some of the world's most important innovations no longer come from single companies working alone – they emerge from crowds. But who decides whose contributions count? And what happens when AI enters that equation? Two researchers explore the question from different angles.

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For the North: Unifying the Nordic paramedicine profession

The landscape of prehospital care is shifting. The days when Emergency Medical Services (EMS) were focused solely on providing critical first aid and rapid transport to hospitals are truly over.

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