Module and minor subject studies allow students to customise their individual study plans and degrees. The University of Vaasa offers eight multidisciplinary, phenomenon-driven modules (15 ECTS).
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Since last autumn, the University of Vaasa has been successfully experimenting with flipped learning. It suits most students better than normal lectures but requires students to be more self-guided and active.
Has your boss stopped greeting? Are your colleagues making cutting remarks at meetings? Or maybe you are the one who keeps ignoring someone at coffee breaks? Here are ten tips from Professor Annika Tidström and University Lecturer Jenni Kantola.
Digital tools are nothing new. They have been used for quite some time already, but during the past few years, they have become more common, and in job-hunting, remote interviews and digital CVs are now commonplace. Applicants need to be camera-ready, capable of producing short videos and create personal brands on digital platforms. For the Youtube and TikTok generation, this might feel like an easy task, but for older generations it can be a challenge.
During a period of six years, water quality, weather data and sediment heat-energy temperatures were collected and analysed. What are the main results then? Does climate change have an impact on our heritage site? Well, there are some interesting results.
Dr Pekka Peura at the University of Vaasa research platform VEBIC, in collaboration with Dr Olli Voutilainen of the Natural Resources Institute Finland and Professor Jussi Kantola of the University of Turku, review the evolution of a waste-management system implemented in Finland’s Vaasa region.
The University of Vaasa offers two courses on blockchain during summer 2022. Both courses are available for anyone interested in the subject. Courses are online-based and free-of-charge for participants.
University of Vaasa Associate Professors Rebekah Rousi and Johanna Hautala have been granted funding from the Academy of Finland for their four-year research projects. The University of Vaasa's share of the funding awarded this week by the Academy of Finland's Commission for Cultural and Social Research was in total 979 877 euros.
The Finnish Cultural Foundation's South Ostrobothnia Fund has awarded its 2022 Prize to Professor Heidi Kuusniemi, Director of the Digital Economy Research Platform at the University of Vaasa.