The purpose of social enterprises is to create jobs especially for people with lowered ability to attain employment and for long term unemployed. A social enterprise does not differ from other companies. In Lapland there is only two holders of the Social Enterprise mark.
Category: Articles in English
Virtual Forest – Towards Intelligent Forestry
Virtual Forest serves the Finnish forestry sector: helps to strengthen the competitiveness and speed up wood mobilization as well as modernize this traditional livelihood.
Summer game studies 2017 (Virtual Reality)
During the summer of 2017, Lapland University of applied science and Lapland University Faculty of arts organised a summer game studies course and training. Virtual reality was selected because of its challenges and, of course, because of virtual reality’s huge potential.
Bringing up the competence in Lapland
Companies should know where their branch is going, and what competences and expertise they should have in the near future. In small and micro companies, managing directors are often too busy to think the future in strategic way.
The Illuminators – a documentary film about the electrification of Lapland
The Illuminators is a documentary feature film recounting how Lapland was electrified, but also about sons following in their father’s footsteps.
Developing a higher education counselling model for immigrants
The key factor contributing to the integration of immigrant students into Finnish society is integration into the educational community. This can be promoted by developing forms of guidance.
Evolution of the ICT Field: New Requirements to Specialists
Today, ICT infrastructure, components, and tools are tightly integrated into the business logic and processes at the enterprise.
Combat human trafficking: integrating a project into tourism education
Human trafficking is a global challenge, and when linked with terrorism and other inequalities, it causes a severe threat to tourism as a livelihood and leisure.
Become SMART and acquire entrepreneurial competences during internship
Students should quite independently be allowed to acquire the entrepreneurial competencies but the tutors and mentors should assist and support the students when help is required. The method is called scaffolding.
Communicating in an Online Learning Community
Learning community where the students are able to share ideas, argument and reflect on opinions lead to a deeper awareness of the complex issue. Training organizations have transformed a lot during last five to ten years. The transformation of Finnish public sector is still far from the highest levels of the best private sector examples.