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Opening of the academic year 2022: Arcada stands firm in a world of change

Arcada celebrated the Opening of the academic year 2022-2023 on Wednesday, September 7. Rector Mona Forsskåhl opened the new academic year with digitalisation as the keyword.

Category: Event

Apply to Open Path studies at Arcada 3–9.8

Open Path studies are an excellent opportunity if you're aiming at becoming a full degree student on bachelor-level. In English, Arcada offers Open Path studies in Nursing.

Category: Education

Creative, innovative solutions for online learning - LTTA in Riga 14-16.6.2022

From 14-16.06.2022, Rigas Stradina University hosted the LTTA- event on site in Riga. A delegation of 6 lecturers from Arcada's health and rehabilitation programmes participated.

Category: Pedagogical development work

Interested in master’s studies this autumn?

Are you looking to begin studying for a master's degree this autumn? We offer two master's degree programmes in this year's additional application.

Category: Education

Arcada strengthens the position of international students on the Finnish labour market

Finding work on the Finnish labour market is not always a walk in the park for international students. In order to improve the situation, Arcada University of Applied Sciences (UAS) has taken a giant leap forward by starting a pilot project focusing on internship collaboration between the UAS and Finnish companies.

Category: Partnerships

Arcada strengthens its expertise in AI and ethics - Elisabeth Hildt new affiliated professor

Arcada's research in trustworthy artificial intelligence is further strengthened by the UAS’s new affiliated professor. Elisabeth Hildt is professor of philosophy and her area of research is the ethical aspects of science and technology.

Category: Research

Arcada alumnus swims 500 kilometres for the Baltic Sea

In the first week of June, Gustav Kvikant starts swimming from Stockholm with the goal of reaching Helsinki about a month later. The Arcada alumnus is on a mission to raise awareness of the many problems the Baltic Sea faces and will be the first ever to swim this distance.

Category: Alumni

Arcada joins UAS Pathway Studies to Finland programme

What happens when 18 Finnish universities of applied sciences (UAS) put their heads together and start thinking of how to bring more talented students to Finland? The UAS Path offers a unique, co-operatively carried out programme, where students wishing to study in Finland can first taste the Finnish study experience from their home country, online, and move to Finland to complete the degree after that.

Category: Education

A socially sustainable working life creates both well-being and profit

Today’s working life is undergoing changes, and we have a demographic structure that requires us to feel up to, and want to, work for a longer time. At the same time, we need more people in the labour market. How could employers, employees and leaders work together to obtain a socially viable working life? That was the theme of the alumni event “Alumnträffen 2022”.

Category: Event