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    Diaconia University of Applied Sciences (Diak) prepares students for national and international social and pastoral work roles.
    Diak is Finland's largest provider of UAS-level education in social work. The health and social care sector is the only national UAS offering education and services for workplace organizations across Finland.
    Diak is responsible for over 90% of UAS-level education provision that qualifies graduates for diaconal and youth work roles in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland. Approximately one in four of Diak graduates complete a diaconal degree.
    Through its RDI activities, Diak participates in its educational fields' regional, national, and international development.
    Diak offers a multicultural and multi-faith learning and working environment. Students and employees are not required to be members of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland.
    The activities of Diaconia University of Applied Sciences are informed by our values – Christian love for others, social justice, open interaction, and high-quality and productive work.
    Diaconia prepares students for professional and expert roles in diaconal and social work and contributes to developing its educational fields at the regional, national, and international levels.
    A world where no one is left behind (strategic aim), Sustainable welfare in communities and service systems across Finland, Europe, and the world, Ethical and smart solutions produced by acceptable practices and field-specific competence clusters, Focused agile and practical action.
    Our activities and innovations are driven by vigorous RDI activity aligned with our profile. Diak prepares professionals with a customer-focused, research-oriented, and development approach to serve evolving workplaces' needs. Diak works in cooperation with workplace organizations to innovate and respond to future phenomena.
    At Diak, the aim is that quality management should be an intrinsic part of both staff members and students' everyday activities and support open and interactive culture across all our activities.
    Diak's quality system provides the framework and defines the responsibilities and measures of continuous development. The quality system covers all functions of the UAS, from its core tasks to support services and management. Each staff member and student contributes to the quality of Diak's operations.
    The quality system is based on continuous improvement, consisting of operational planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and development.
    Quality work is closely linked to Diak's strategy and the associated targets and annual resource planning. The quality system supports Diak's strategic aims.
    The provision of reliable monitoring and assessment data is an integral part of the quality system. In addition to monitoring statistics and target outcomes, feedback from students, staff members, and stakeholders is also an essential source of information. Feedback provides the basis for our operational development.
    Diak participates in the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre's quality system audit every six years and develops its quality system based on the auditors' recommendations. Today, Diak has a well-established place in the Finnish and international higher education field.
    We are the largest higher education provider in the social services sector, with approximately 3,000 students in our programs. Our organization is divided into four operational units, which together employ around 250 people.
    Diak educates a diverse range of experts for church community work and social service roles. Our wide range of services and RDI activities enable us to engage in active dialogue with broader society and innovate solutions to current and future challenges.
    Diak will continue to develop through interaction with society and the higher education field in line with its values and goals.
    Diak's overall strategy guides international activities. Diak is an ethically responsible multidisciplinary university aiming to improve inclusion and welfare in society.
    As an educator and developer, Diak is a respected national expert in its key areas and an international expert in its core area, diaconia.
    The values guiding work at Diaconia University of Applied Sciences are Christian love for one's neighbor, social justice, open interaction, and practical work.
    Together with working life, Diak carries out research and develops areas of highest competence rooted in its mission and founding values. Diak creates innovations based on ethically, socially, economically, and environmentally sound principles.
    Diak's research activities in Finland and on the international level, especially in developing countries, prioritize development projects that focus on participation, poverty, and marginalization.
    Diak's international strategy is to develop and maintain long-term, sustainable international partnerships. In international activities, Diak promotes an integrated model, which means that student and staff mobility, joint curriculum development, and development projects are the tools for partnership building.
    The joint development work in Europe and especially in developing countries aims to promote welfare and participation, focusing on the most vulnerable groups.
    At Diak, becoming international means joint mobility for students and staff. It also means cooperation in teaching, research, and development. Diak's educational task and international research and development work support one another.
    Diak is working to support social and ethical goals in partnering countries. Diak and its partnering universities form a close network based on interaction.
    Diak offers all students an opportunity to complete a part of their studies abroad. Questions of internationality and multiculturality form a natural part of education at Diak. Opportunities for mobility and other programs are used actively to improve students' vocational skills and strengthen Diak's and its partner organizations' joint development work.
    For Bachelor and Master level students, research work in an international setting is encouraged. The curriculum and implementation plans encourage internationalization. Monitoring and evaluation by students, partners, and staff are used for developing activities.
    Diak's education gives the student skills and competencies for international and multicultural tasks, focusing on ensuring equal participation for all people. Every staff member at Diak has an equal opportunity for internationalization as well. In staff mobility, special care is taken to ensure the administrative staff's participation in mobility activities.
    Diak's education considers international working life requirements, so academics and other professionals' international interaction is essential.
    Diak's international activities mostly take place in Europe, Asia, and Africa. When selecting new partner organizations profile and international relations experts and academic staff, evaluate possibilities for bilateral mobility, joint curriculum development, research, and other development projects. In educational development projects, Diak has selected joint modules and joint degrees as a tool for internationalizing education.

    Diaconia University of Applied Sciences
    Founding year: 1996
    Website: Visit Website
    Number of students: 3000
    Genders Accepted: Mixed (Co-education)
    Leadership: Tapio Kujala (Rector)
    Number of staff: 250
    Type: Universities

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    Address: Diaconia University of Applied Sciences, Kyläsaarenkuja 2, Helsinki , 00580 , Finland



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