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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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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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Healthcare Leadership – master’s thesis topics and themes 2025

The objective of this blog post is to review the themes and topics of the master’s theses completed during 2025 by students within the master’s degree programme Healthcare Leadership at Arcada. As part of the study plan, all master students of the programme are required to complete a 30 ECTS master’s thesis on EQF7 level, where they develop and broaden their knowledge base on healthcare leadership.

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Maritime heritage sites and sustainable approaches – insights from the CHARLO intensive programme in Åland Islands

In this blog post we describe how we approached the task of creating circular solutions and socially sustainable solutions for Sjökvarteret in Åland Islands.

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Weaving the WAVE: Navigating trade-offs in co-producing a Nordic marine bioeconomy

Planetary health is under threat, and the need to rethink our relationship with the ocean has never been more urgent. In this text we present WAVE, a new Nordplus project designed to transform marine "waste" into valuable skills and opportunities. In this blog post, we take an unusual step. Instead of reporting on completed work, we apply recent research on co-production to map out the tensions and design choices we face right at the start – using transparency as a tool for better management.

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Onboarding internationally educated nurses in the Nordic countries

This blog post reports the findings from a master thesis (Husted, 2024) that explored existing research on onboarding practices for internationally educated nurses in Nordic countries with the aims to identify best practices and recommend guidelines based on global standards and the theory of organisational socialisation.

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Let’s get our concepts straight: metaverse, Web3 and sustainability

Feeling confused or uncertain about what metaverse and Web3 mean? And what about how it is linked to sustainability? Is it even possible for our activities in the digital world to be sustainable?

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A passage into cultural sustainability in Web3

In a time of global crisis, the only thing that is certain is constant change. A multitude of sectors and groups in society are trying to deal with the crisis. One such sector is the cultural heritage sector. Our world is full of cultural heritage that needs to be preserved: artifacts, knowledge, sites, buildings, monuments. Climate change, wars and the sheer volume of heritage that we should preserve makes this into an enormous task.

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Can Web3 create social sustainability, or are we facing the world's most advanced loneliness?

Does Web3 foster community or isolation? This blog post explores if the metaverse creates social sustainability or just more loneliness. The authors argue that by filtering out life's "messiness," we risk replacing true friendship with mere transaction.

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