One of the absolute adventages of Barents region are the wild products of forests. These Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) are already utilized in niche markets. However the production of NTFPs is not governed nor managed, which has led to insecure availability of raw material.
Intercultural knowledge and versatile communication and language skills are the basis of international competence. The students studying at universities of applied sciences are prepared for the skills and competencies required by working life.
The University of Lapland and the Lapland UAS are improving the employment possibilities and the recognition of knowledge of immigrants as well as offering possibilities for higher education in the Lapland area.
Lapland UAS highlights the importance of entrepreneurship in the education programmes. Entrepreneurship competence development is no longer the privilege of the business studies only, but it becomes a part of every curricula regardless the field of study.
This is a book about innovation. At first, I was little bit skeptic since there are way too many books that foists one solution to all problems.
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.
Virtual Forest serves the Finnish forestry sector: helps to strengthen the competitiveness and speed up wood mobilization as well as modernize this traditional livelihood.
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.
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 is a documentary feature film recounting how Lapland was electrified, but also about sons following in their father’s footsteps.
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.
Today, ICT infrastructure, components, and tools are tightly integrated into the business logic and processes at the enterprise.
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.
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.
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.