This is HAMK, Häme University of Applied Sciences

THIS IS HAMK

Häme University of Applied Sciences

Quality Assurance at HAMK

At HAMK, quality assurance refers to the procedures, processes or systems that are used to secure and develop the quality of the institution’s education and other operations. Quality assurance comprises quality control and quality development. The HAMK quality assurance system refers to the entity formed by the quality assurance organisation, including its responsibilities and procedures.

HAMK: the most inspiring

HAMK is a university of applied sciences, which offers competences and talents to renew the world of work. We have always been pioneers and we want to be so in the future. Internationality is part of this vision. HAMK is an internationally and nationally networked higher education institution that is committed to its partnerships.

HAMK graduates are desired experts in the labour market; they are global problem-solvers with a creative and progressive approach. Häme University of Applied Sciences wants to bring value to our students.

Come and build your future at HAMK. Let’s do it together!

Pertti Puusaari President

Häme University of Applied Sciences is a state recogniced higher education institution licenced by Finland’s Ministry of Education. We follow the Bologna Process and use European Credit Transfer System, ECTS, for student evaluation. Our degrees are internationally recognised so students can to continue their studies in higher education institutes world wide.

Audited by FINEEC. In Finland, the Finnish Education Evaluation Council (FINEEC) audits the quality assurance systems in higher education. The quality assurance system of HAMK was audited during spring 2022. The areas of education and quality management were both evaluated to be at the level “excellent”.

HAMK

This is HAMK

Häme University of Applied Sciences, HAMK is an international and active institution located in southern Finland. Our long history dating back to 1840 has enabled us to become a competitive, modern university with internationally recognised teaching quality.

HAMK has seven campuses located in and around the picturesque lakeside town of Hämeenlinna in southern Finland with fantastic transport links to the rest of the country. All our campuses are equipped with the latest technology to ensure our students reach their full potential and enjoy their time at HAMK.

HAMK offers degree programmes in its schools of bioeconomy, wellbeing, technology, entrepreneurship and business, and professional teacher education. In addition, HAMK offers continuing education and further education.

An International University

We have around 850 international students from over 60 countries. We offer a global environment where students encounter different cultural perspectives and gain international contacts which are valued by employers worldwide.

We offer 9 Bachelor’s and two Master’s Degree Programmes in English, with focus on boosting comprehensive skills for employability, innovation and entrepreneurship. You can shape your degree programme to fit your future aspirations with cross disciplinary subjects.

Research Units: Bio, Edu, Smart, Tech

Bachelor’s programmes

Master’s Programmes

Other study

Exchange studies at HAMK

bilateral agreements with about 120 educational institutions abroad and our whole exchange programme system is based on these agreements. In special cases, students can be accepted from outside the above schemes.

Alongside our Finnish students, we have approximately 700 degree and exchange students from over 90 different countries. Exchange studies at HAMK will offer you a good opportunity to get to know new people from different cultures. The excellent

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HAMK’s International Semester consists of courses specially selected to maximise your learning experience with us. These courses are delivered entirely in English and are meant for exchange students from our partner institutions and also for HAMK students. The studies last for approximately for one semester.

Check more information from: www.hamk.fi/exchange

The professional teacher education programme is meant for teacher who plan to work at vocational institutions, colleges or at universities of applied sciences in Finland. The HAMK international professional teacher education programme in English is recommended for students who are not proficient in Finnish. The programme includes basic studies in pedagogy, teacher training, vocational pedagogy studies and other studies. The extent of the studies is 60 credits and the programme is 13 months long. The teacher education programme will be implemented as multiform studies alongside work. The professional teacher education programme is also conducted in Finnish.

Check more information from: www.hamk.fi/aokk/en

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HAMK UP - continuous learning

HAMK’s Open studies are for all who want to develop themselves or their professional skills. All Open studies are university level and they are selected parts from degrees to match the different needs of our open university students.

Open studies’ Study Path is the right choice for you if you aim at becoming a degree student, but lack the requirements for applying. Student who chooses Study Path aim at becoming a degree student by studying the whole first academic year with the other first year students of the Bachelor’s degree programme or the first semester of the Master’s degree programme. Please notice, that if you need a student residence permit to entering Finland, it is good to ensure beforehand from the Finnish embassy if the residence permit can be given for Study Path studies.

Check more information from: www.hamk.fi/openstudies

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Modern learning on seven different campuses

Evo

Evo Campus is situated in the village of Iso-Evo in the Lammi area. Lammi is a rural district and part of the city of Hämeenlinna.

Evo campus is specialised in forestry. It was founded in 1862 and it was the first forest school in Finland. Evo have around 200 students and the number of staff is 40.

Lepaa

Lepaa is located in the town of Hattula, by the Lake Vanajavesi, 17 km from Hämeenlinna and 120 km from Helsinki.

Lepaa is the oldest and most prestigious institute where you can study horticulture in Finland. There are around 430 students studying at the campus and the number of staff is 31.

Riihimäki

Riihimäki is in the junction of southern Finland’s main motorways and railway lines. The town is located about 70 km from Helsinki and it takes only 45 minutes to reach Riihimäki from anywhere in the Helsinki metropolitan area.

Riihimäki campus has degree programmes in engineering and there are around 1100 students studying here and the number of staff is 62.

Forssa

Forssa is a cozy small town located in the middle of the beautiful Häme region in Southern Finland and only an hour’s drive from Helsinki, the capital city of Finland. Forssa Campus is the westernmost of HAMK’s campuses and it is located on historical Spinning Mill Area right in the heart of Forssa.

The campus is study and work environment for around 650 students and 40 staff members.

Mustiala

Mustiala is located in southern Finland, in the town of Tammela, only a 1.5 hour drive from Helsinki, Tampere and Turku.

Mustiala is the oldest of HAMK’s campuses and a traditional higher agricultural education provider. Mustiala campus has around 400 students and the number of staff is 37.

Valkeakoski

Valkeakoski is a town in the southern part of Finland, in the middle of the Finnish Lake District, just a 30 minute drive from Tampere, which is the third largest city in Finland.

Campus has a very international atmosphere as there are around 200 foreign students. Altogether we have around 800 degree students and the number of staff is 37.

Hämeenlinna

Hämeenlinna is a beautiful lakeside city located in southern Finland, approximately one-hour drive from either Helsinki-Vantaa or Tampere-Pirkkala airport. Hämeenlinna campus is located in Visamäki, 2 km from the Hämeenlinna city center and it is easily reachable on foot or by bike.

Hämeenlinna University center is the largest of HAMK’s campuses. Professional Teacher Education is taught at the University center, both in English and in Finnish. The center is the home campus for HAMK’s four research units. There are around 4700 students studying at this campus and 440 staff members.

HAMK has seven campuses located in and around the picturesque lakeside town of Hämeenlinna in southern Finland with fantastic transport links to the rest of the country. All our campuses are equipped with the latest technology to ensure our students reach their full potential and enjoy their time at HAMK.

Innovative cooperation

HAMK collaborates with various partners actively and effectively. Our deepest cooperation is with our srategic partners. We also collaborate in many levels locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. We are part of many networks and we have representatives in significant expert bodies. In Finland, among our strategic partners are for example Aalto University and several Universities of Applied Sciences. Internationally, our main strategic partners are universities in RUN-EU (see also page 9) and Beyond Alliance for Knowledge together with Universidade Feevale from Brazil.

In addition, we have hundreds of significant collaboration partners, like enterprises, vocational institutes of our region, cities and municipalities, and different kinds of associations, organizations and foundations.

What is RUN-EU?

RUN-EU (The Regional University Network – European University) brings together seven European higher education institutions from six different countries, all committed to a common vision. RUN-EU aims to jointly develop cutting-edge teaching, learning and research to meet the future competence needs of the surrounding world. Over the course of the three-year project, RUN-EU will deliver short and flexible student and staff mobilities, create research collaboration and research groups, introduce PhD paths, plan and implement double and joint degrees, and also build joint administrative structures.

The RUN-EU universities are:

Polytechnic of Leiria (Portugal)

Polytechnic of Cavado and Ave (Portugal)

Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (Ireland)

NHL Stenden (The Netherlands)

Széchenyi István University (Hungary)

Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences (Austria)

Häme University of Applied Sciences (Finland)

Design Factory

Design Factory is an interdisciplinary product and service design and learning platform uniting students, teachers, researchers, and industry. Our goal is to build passion-based learning culture at HAMK.

As product and service design platform Design Factory brings HAMKs education facilities and equipment as well as research units’ expertise to industry use. The product development laboratory of Degree Program in Design offers design expertise and services for 3D-scanning, modeling and printing (clay&plastic), digital paper and textile printing as well as laser cutting.

The Africa Reach

HAMK is building knowledge and competence together with African universities and partners.

Collaboration with African partners has an impact on all HAMK’s levels:

Collaborative research is the tool for producing solutions suitable for local realities to create jobs and wealth. Keywords: Sustainable development, Climate change mitigation.

Opportunities for students: enhancing international competences and possibilities for short exchanges in multidisciplinary groups.

Opportunities for staff: teacher exchanges, both by visiting African partner universities and by welcoming colleagues from African countries to teach at HAMK.

I have always been a person who loves to be in an international context, meet with new people, learn new things and grow my culture along with exchanging mine with others.

Meryem Boudalal, RUN European University Student Board member

Regional impact and customer-oriented applied research

Research at Häme University of Applied Sciences seeks answers to regional and global challenges.

More than 20 research teams, with nearly 240 full or part-time staff, work in the research units, for which students are a key resource.

HAMK has four research units that support the workplace and education operate according to specific focus areas:

HAMK Bio – Sustainable Bio-economy

HAMK Edu – Innovative Expertise

HAMK Smart – Intelligent Services

HAMK Tech – Technology for the Future

Strong partnerships locally and internationally

Research units and research groups function in innovative research projects with our diverse partners both locally and internationally. HAMK is a coordinator or partner in

various international projects funded mainly by the European Union, Nordic Council or the Finnish Ministries.

We are part of RUN (The Regional University Network) European University which brings together seven European higher education institutions from six different countries, all committed to a common vision. The aim of RUN-EU is to secure economical, societal, cultural and ecological sustainable progress within their regions and among stakeholders. This is done for example by producing RUN-EU’s research and innovation activities to promote sustainable regional development.

HAMK has also established partnerships for education, research and innovation in Africa where we are building knowledge and competence together with African universities and partners.

In addition, each of our four research unit has various ongoing research, development and innovation projects with other international partners. These projects are an important part of R&D activities and higher education as they promote international collaboration, education and staff proficiency and often include student and staff mobility.

Publications for development

HAMK Unlimited is a threefold publishing platform, publishing experts’ viewpoints on current phenomena results from R&D activities and peer-reviewed, academic articles. Have a look at our newest articles: Unlimited.hamk.fi

Global education services at HAMK

Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) is a Finnish public multidisciplinary higher education institution, which has received the highest “advanced” status for its quality system audited by the Finnish Education Evaluation Center based on its deeply embedded quality culture, strongly committed staff and systematic focus on student interests.

The university offers not only higher education degrees, but also research-based initial and continuous professional teacher education, and consultation in a wide variety of international educational reforms, especially in transforming vocational, higher and early childhood education, implementing digital strategy, enhancing relevance of education and developing the 21st century pedagogy and leadership in close cooperation with ministries and authorities from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.

In addition, as the inspiration leader in continuing education, HAMK offers customer-oriented, high-quality educational products with focus on different professional disciplines for the global market.

Our Approach to Educational Development

Our educational development programmes are co-designed and evaluated with our partners according to the Finnish educational quality standards and using evidence-based research methods.

The design, implementation and development of our international educational programmes are based on the applied research conducted by HAMK Global Education Research and Development team of the HAMK Edu Research Centre. The research is

conducted through various methods such as design-based implementation research, customer experience research, action research, impact studies, surveys, digital narratives, field studies and observations.

Furthermore, HAMK Edu Research Centre offers research in several educational categories, such as continuous learning and competence development for the future work, career counseling, vocational teacher education, higher education, competence management and leadership, as well as new learning solutions and digital competence.

Expertise Areas

Ou r expertise areas are described in the image below. Currently, we provide services to increase the pedagogical capacity of teachers and managers in various levels and fields of education. In addition, our services include improving of educational capacity and innovation in the fields of bioeconomy, wellbeing, entrepreneurship, smart technology and circular economy.

“I had to come to Finland to know more of my own country. (…) to really see the student as the centre of the learning process and that learning is much bigger than teaching. This doesn’t underestimate the role of the teacher but reinforce the need of change we have to make in our reality.

Student of HAMK professional development programme

maaret.viskari@hamk.fi + 358 50 5745 943

More information hamk.fi/globaleducation

HAMK aims to be carbon neutral by 2030

The goal has been broken down into concrete changes that will affect the everyday lives of everyone at HAMK.

In spring 2020, Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) drafted a sustainable development programme. However, the principles of sustainability have been in operation since the beginning of HAMK, in 1995.

Sustainability studies will be included in all degrees regardless of field and there will also be training sessions offered to the staff.

The goals range from very large (carbon neutrality, eco-efficiency, wellbeing of the entire work community) to small and everyday ones (monitoring water consumption, abandoning disposable containers, favouring local production in restaurant services). In addition to ecological sustainability, attention will also be paid to social and cultural sustainability, such as reducing inequality. The UN Sustainable Development Goals are the basis on which measures are applied to education, research, and everyday activities on campuses.

An important step is in year 2030: by then, HAMK should be a carbon neutral, meaning that all emissions produced would also be compensated.

”The goal is demanding but necessary and in line with today’s general practices and procedures.

HAMK’s extensive teaching and research forests contribute to this goal,” says Tuomas Salonen, Director of Property Management.

HAMK currently has its own forests and right-touse forests totalling 3,400 hectares. Between 15,000 and 25,000 new trees are planted annually.

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The year we launched the Sustainable Development degree programme

HAMK’s carbon sinks in hectares. 7 600 15 000 –25 000 100

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The amount of carbon dioxide sequestered by our carbon sinks (tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent).

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Share (%) of the renewable energy of all the energy we 100 use.

Success in international GreenMetric Rankings

Häme University of Applied Sciences ranked 17th among over one thousand participants, in the international GreenMetric World University rankings 2022, measuring the sustainability of higher education institutions’ operations and operational environment.

There were participants from all continents and the number of participants has increased annually. HAMK did the best of the three participating Finnish higher education institutions: The University of Eastern Finland ranks 39, and Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences ranks 506. In the lead were Wageningen University from the Netherlands, and University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University from Great Britain.

The comparison examined measures promoting sustainable development in education, research, water, waste, transportation, and settings and infrastructure.

HAMK improved its scores in the education category, such as organising sustainability-related events and organising a student unions. HAMK scored full marks in the water management category. The weakest area for HAMK – although it also scores 80% of the maximum – is energy use. Compared to many other higher education institutions, HAMK has a large number of campuses and therefore a lot of infrastructure to maintain. HAMK has been taking energy efficiency measures for a long time and this winter the aim is to achieve a 10% energy saving, including by reducing indoor temperatures.

The examination concerned the measures for 2021. The GreenMetric comparison has been organised since 2010, and it is based on the UI GreenMetric University Rankings Network led by the University of Indonesia.

FIN LAND

Finland is a hidden gem located in northern Europe. Finland has gained world-wide recognition for its education and wellfunctioning society. Finland leads the world in technology, innovation and sustainability. Being one of the safest countries in the world with an abundance of tranquil nature, has made Finland a unique study destination. In Finland, we are blessed with high standard of living and high quality of life. You are guaranteed to find thousands of reasons to fall in love with Finland. We certainly do.

Häme Region

Häme is one of the oldest regions in Finland, situated in southern Finland, north from the capital city of Helsinki. Due to its location, Häme is easy to reach by rail, by road and by air. Häme is an interesting region with a lot to offer for locals as well as visitors. Häme is a mix of old and new, with history rooting back to medieval times and infrastructure to suit the needs of modern life. Hämeenlinna is the capital of the region and serves as the cultural and economic hub. HAMK´s largest campus, Hämeenlinna University Centre is also located in Hämeenlinna.