At the moment one will find more than fifty different EU Funding programmes. With built EU project management competence among regional actors in Lapland, it is expected that in the future there will be better understanding about EU external funding and how organisations can apply for it.
Higher Education Institutions have an essential role of virtual bridge building in the Arctic Europe. The Kolarctic Bridge project builds bridges on different levels, between universities, teachers and other employees, firms, students and regions.
New urgent objective of international business training at Lapland UAS is to increase know-how of entrepreneurs (current and future), and businesses, to become more resilient to climate change with the competence to create new business models aiming to meet Sustainable Development Goals or SDG.
The future is about more innovative partnerships to help our students to advance and succeed in the future worklife. Isolation of single universities in a world of complex learning systems will seriously limit potential and talents of students.
My wish is that also in future, Lapland UAS, together with partners, will look to the future and support cross-border projects and educational programmes where the young generation learns about the opportunities of the European Arctic. Because the future is in the North.
There is a need to increase CBC competence among young graduates and education is the key factor that defines the success of CBC cooperation in the future in Barents and circumpolar Arctic region. In years to come we will witness the role of young people and university graduates in overall regional development activities. Collaboration in between Lapland UAS and Kolarctic CBC programme representatives is mutually beneficial.
The business environment in the High North and in other parts of the world is changing due to digitalization, financial and political developments, green economy and globalization. This calls for holistic business understanding, critical thinking, communication, problem solving, scenario writing and ability to work in international context.
Regardless current world politics and fragmentation, intercultural skills are as important as ever. Internationalization has become a strategy line almost in all university strategies and policies. However, it is still a long road ahead to improve and increase intercultural fluency and make it as an integral part of ecosystem of all universities.
Ulster University (UK), the University of Applied Sciences Kempten (Germany) and Lapland University of Applied Sciences (Finland) have developed a pilot project to test the capability of master’s students to work together on a virtual entrepreneurial marketing project.
MEDICO network (Nordic Medication Educators’ Collaboration) focuses on development of medication education in undergraduate nursing programs in all Nordic countries and Estonia.
Leaders are not born: leadership can and should be learnt. Four students took leader´s role in various real life projects.
Raising an awareness on regional issues and CBC from an early stage of the education, we educate a generation of future managers, decision makers and region developers, who with this better understanding of cross-border cooperation mindset.
Five organizations from the northernmost parts of Finland and Sweden joined forces and started a research and development project called Future possibilities for CLT / Nya möjligheter för CLT.
Finland is the Chair of the Arctic Council in 2017–2019. In this issue of LUMEN, the Top of Europe is described and analyzed from different perspectives.
Border expertise is important and needed but when it comes to finding financing no one seems to be ready to provide the resources needed.
When teachers and students co-create the teaching-learning experience, it results in a positive learning outcome. The co-creation that happens in a cross-cultural classroom would imply learning for both students and teachers.
Heart of a story event was organized for the tourism companies along the Northern Lights Route in Finland, Sweden and Norway. The purpose of the event was to inspire and present different storytelling tools to the participants: “Connecting the dots”.
Building a partner network requires individuals to make personal contact with partners and to work actively to bring about collaboration. Maintening international contacts and a partner network has become more demanding in the School of Industry & Natural resources.