Luas strategy presentation 21012014

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Lahti University of Applied Sciences

Strategy 2013-2016

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Lahti Region – The Inspiring Environment

Lahti is known for its environmental expertise and for being an internationally renowned design center.

City of Lahti

• Population: 100 000 residents• 8th largest city in Finland • Part of the Helsinki metropolitan area• Central location with easy connections to major cities

• Helsinki 1 hour and St. Petersburg 2.5 hours by train

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Lahti

Strategic framework of LUAS

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 2013-2016

• In the future LUAS will be an internationally recognized and networked, multidisciplinary and regionally influential higher education institution

• LUAS’s main task is to train experts and real professionals for different sectors of working world with a proactive and productive approach, and to help in regenerating the region's competence base with RDI activities.

• According to the current FUAS strategy (2012-2015), the FUAS institutions will provide all services in UAS-level education, research and regional development required in the wider metropolitan area, using learning environments which foster internationalisation.

The mission of Lahti University of Applied Sciences

Our focus areas are design, environmentand the development of welfare services

Mission• The mission of Lahti University of Applied

Sciences is to educate experts and real professionals for different sectors with a proactive and productive approach, and help to regenerate the region's competence base.

Profiles• Our profiles are integrated pedagogy,

practise-based innovation, and student entrepreneurship.

Focus areas• Design, environment, and the development of

welfare services according to the Lahti region strategy for competitiveness and economy.

Focus areas and profiles LUAS - FUAS

• Focus areasThe focus areas identified for Lahti University of Applied Sciences are: design, environment, and the development of welfare services.

• The responsibilities for the strategic focus areas of the FUAS alliance are allocated between its members as follows: LUAS has the lead responsibility for the development of the Environment and Energy Efficiency focus area, HAMK is responsible for Technological Competence and Entrepreneurship, and Laurea is responsible for Societal Security and Integrity. The Social Welfare focus area is developed jointly by the three members.

• ProfilesThe profiles of LUAS are focused on integrated pedagogy, practice-based innovation and student entrepreneurship.

• The educational profile of FUAS describes it as an international pioneer in workplace-oriented pedagogical solutions integrated into RDI, and a motor for applied research, pragmatic innovation and RDI integrated into student-oriented education in the wider metropolitan area.

Focus areas

• New products, spaces, services, experiences and systems are developed through design thinking, in cooperation with users and businesses.

• At LUAS, design thinking is human-focused, interactive, experimental, iterative and optimistic.

• Design and visual communication are seen as art and humanities based approach to designing, developing and researching better future for us all.

• Our design and visual communication are founded on positive, critical and regenerative thinking.

• A good example of a cross-disciplinary competence area is service design, which introduces design thinking into service development in different fields.

DESIGN

Focus areas ENVIRONMENT

• Lahti region aims to become the leading cleantech cluster for environmental research, education and business.

 • By 2017, Lahti University of Applied Sciences will be a nationally and

internationally recognised educator, developer and research organisation in environmental technology and cleantech competence.

• LUAS together with its partners generate a new way of thinking and new solutions and applications for global challenges.

 • LUAS operates in accordance with the principles of sustainable development,

and the principles of social, ecological and economic sustainability are incorporated into all its operations.

Focus areas

• In the Europe 2020 Strategy, innovation partnerships are identified as key methods for solving societal challenges.

• LUAS is focused on the welfare of the aged and families, the prevention of exclusion, the service and management system reform, the production of e-welfare services, and the promotion of service entrepreneurship.

• Lahti region is a mega-province in sports, and exercise as a health-promoting activity is highlighted in the region's strategy for competitiveness and the economy.

• A joint objective is to turn the Lahti region into a centre of excellence for research, competence, education and business in health-promoting exercise.

DEVELOPING WELFARE SERVICES

Profiles

• Integrated pedagogy refers to the way different types of knowledge are combined to develop expertise by linking theoretical knowledge to experiences and action to thinking.

• Key aspects of learning and competence are professional expertise, the development of

expertise, guidance, and competence evaluation.

• Learning is collaborative; students, staff members and workplace partners all learn together.

• Teachers are enablers of students' learning and growth, they construct pedagogically appropriate learning environments with a workplace-oriented approach.

• RDI activity is a key arena for learning, learning environments are both national and international.

INTEGRATED PEDAGOGY

Profiles

• Practise-based innovation is based on clear and strong practical orientation and real-life problem-solving

• Space for learning, new ideas and intuition

• Active participation by students and teachers in different types of development assignments and projects, combining practice and theory

• Includes learning through innovating, peer learning, networking and multidisciplinary cooperation

OPEN PRACTISE-BASED INNOVATION

Profiles

• Students are encouraged to develop entrepreneurial working attitude in all disciplines.

• Learning is entrepreneurial, multicultural and multidisciplinary.

• Students learn to develop their competencies into products.

• Graduates from LUAS are able to work with partners to develop competencies which are commercially and socially beneficial.

STUDENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Our values

Trust We promote trust and strengthen our workplace community through open dialogue. We are committed to our joint operating models and support each other. We conduct ourselves in accordance with laws, decrees and our jointly agreed code of conduct.

Openness We actively seek information and engage in responsible communication. We act based on facts and with discretion. We give and receive constructive feedback.

Customer orientation Customers are the foundation of our operations. We actively engage in networking. We are dynamic and able to adapt. We focus on the essential.

Respect for others We listen with an open mind, value each other's knowledge and skills, and accept different ways of doing things in our quest for common goals.

Renewal We are active, foresightful and innovative. Learningis the prerequisite for creating new knowledge and renewal.

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