Savonia University of Applied Sciences

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Savonia University of Applied Sciences is one of the largest and most versatile Universities of Applied Sciences in Finland. Our organization of experts educates strong professionals in six different fields of study. Our versatile Degree Programmes offer the students the opportunity to study as a full-time student or alongside their job (Master's Degree and specialized studies) or flexibly at the Open University of Applied Sciences. Our campuses are located in Kuopio, Iisalmi, and Varkaus.

Savonia UAS wishes to serve the surrounding work-life actively. Our R&D activities offer high-quality services and tailor-made solutions to the businesses and work communities' development needs. Co-operation, networking, and internationalization are the crucial factors of our success. At Savonia, transdisciplinarity is secured by organizing RDI into main axes called Competence Networks. These networks are Welfare products and services, Energy, the Environment and Safety, and Industrial Design.

Savonia University of Applied Sciences is run by the Savonia University of Applied Sciences Ltd. The ltd, and the President of Savonia UAS are Mrs. Mervi Vidgrén.

The two main tasks for the University of Applied Sciences are education and research, development and innovation (RDI). RDI also promotes regional development and internationalization. Savonia produces new competences and knowledge for the use of local operators, based on working life orientation.

Integration of RDI activities with education and learning is realized in Savonia's Open Innovation Space thinking (OIS), which means:

• working life orientation
• students' active role in projects and in developing work and business life
• networking
• transdisciplinary approach

The starting point of RDI is the context of the application. Diverse expertise is brought together in RDI networks. At Savonia, the production of new knowledge is rooted in practice. The quality of new skills and knowledge produced is ultimately measured within their fields of application. Savonia's RDI activities offer a variety of services and forms of co-operation to the businesses, communities, and organizations from different fields and private individuals.

Savonia's competency-based curricula consist of two parts: the general information and the specific contents of course descriptions. The general part includes education, competence standards, the structure of studies, development of expertise, implementation methods, and table of courses. You can access the specific contents, i.e., course descriptions, by clicking on the course table's course codes. It is good to study your degree programme's curriculum before starting your studies. You can find it below.

The curriculum comes with a course plan, which describes what a student is required to do to pass the course. Each lecturer presents a course plan when his/her course starts and uploads the plan on Moodle's learning environment. In addition to the requirements, the course plan informs the contents, objectives, timing, extent and student workload, assessment criteria, and the plan for processing course feedback given by the students.

Savonia UAS is conscious of its social responsibilities. They are best fulfilled by executing the organization's main tasks - education and RDI - with high quality and good performance. The results and effectiveness of social responsibility are created through education and the results of RDI.

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