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Humak University of Applied Sciences is engaged in the development of higher education and modernization of the work world. We contribute to forging new types of higher education and research, development, and innovation that serve students on their career path and support professional partners as they develop their activities. We are the most prominent educator and RDI-organization in our areas of expertise in Finland. Our strengths are: Youth work and communality Organization work, work communities and integration Interpreting and linguistic accessibility and Cultural management and conveyance. Humak University of Applied Sciences is a highly profiled, national university of applied sciences, specializing in developing expertise in organizational activities and youth work, work community development, entrepreneurship in cultural management and creative industries, and the interpreting sector. We are the largest actor in our sectors in Finland. The unique feature of Humak is its deep roots and ownership in liberal adult education and civic organizations. Humak was established to ensure nationwide, university-level specialist education and research, development, and innovation activity in narrow but socially significant fields. To ensure the nationwide availability of education and a strong cluster of expertise – a prerequisite for high-quality operations – Humak operates through a regionally decentralized but operationally integrated nationwide network. Suomen Humanistinen Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy owns Humak. We have 1,500 students and around 130 professionals working with us. Humak seeks to intensify the work with its current partners and builds actively new partnerships. Humak is a community whose operations are based on sharing knowledge and expertise openly and producing new information in cooperation through various networks. We aim to share our training, innovation, and service processes with our partners and thus ensure the development of training, tuition, and new knowledge, together in a network, and smoothly transfer the knowledge for the professional sector. Cooperation and standard processes create a platform for the forecasting, innovation, and development of future solutions. Students are closely involved in the development work, and Humak's personnel bring their expertise to our partners' use and benefits processes. Humak's vision is to be an international and social university engaged in developing a fair and communal Finland. Our mission is to provide participation, social wellbeing, and communality. We create information, competence, and expertise in our fields. We are looking for strong partnerships with Finnish and foreign universities. The Strengths are based on our competence and make our profile concrete and highlight the cutting edge of our activity fields. The strengths guide the strategic development of our operations. The strengths create even stronger competence clusters and expertise, and they also guide the management of our partnerships. Youth work and commonality: we practice the skills to encounter young people Organization work, work communities, and integration: we improve the functionality, competitiveness, and collaborative development of work communities. Interpreting and linguistic accessibility: we participate in the development of professional skills and technology supporting linguistic accessibility. Cultural management and conveyance: we promote cultural management skills as activities supporting participation and developing digital environments for cultural and artistic productions and services. New, emerging sectors that rise from the margins of our strength areas which guarantee that the competence requirements of the business and industrial life are taken into account in our activity: New participants (we reduce the feeling of not belonging and marginalization), New commonality (we encourage network-based management and guidance), Communication expertise (we promote the encountering of diversity and knowledge of cultural minorities), Human rights and equality (we encourage societal equality). Humak is operating nationwide in Finland. Our institution has campuses and research units in four major areas: the Helsinki Metropolitan area (Helsinki RDI center, Nurmijärvi Campus, and Kauniainen Campus), Turku, Jyväskylä, and Kuopio. Also, we have RDI-offices in Joensuu, Kemi, and Imatra. View full university