As of autumn 2021, the possibilities for integration in Swedish in the Greater Helsinki area improve, when the People’s academy Borgå folkakademi starts cooperating with Arcada, Prakticum och Arbis.
A concrete result of Arcada's work for sustainability is WWF's Green Office certification, which Arcada was granted as early as 2011. Ten years later, the work for increased eco-efficiency continues with annual follow-up.
Internationally educated nurses are a great asset for Finland. To ensure that they have the qualifications required and access to further education, the Department of Healthcare at Arcada University of Applied Sciences and the Filipino Nurses Association in the Nordic Region have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
Arcada Job Portal is a new online career service for students. The platform gives employers broader opportunities to make their company visible through their own profile. It also serves as a gathering place for career-related material.
Kovács and Lindfors were elected to the board of Arcada University of Applied Sciences during the Annual General Meeting in May. Marcus Rantala continues as Chairman of the Board.
A speech recognition research project developing and testing AI algorithms that will recognise some of the different Swedish-speaking dialects across Finland has been launched by Arcada University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with Åbo Akademi University and StageZero Technologies.
Professor Roberto V. Zicari, founder of the Frankfurt Big Data Lab at Goethe University and leading the Z-Inspection® initiative, becomes one of Arcada’s affiliated professors. With the appointment, Arcada wants to further strengthen its focus on research in artificial intelligence, especially knowledge of ethical issues related to the field.
