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Laurea is a research-oriented and developmental university of applied sciences
that produces new competence. Laurea s pedagogical innovation, the Learning by
Developing (LbD) model, is built on a development project that is genuinely
rooted in the world of work, which aims to produce new practices and whose
progress requires collaboration between lecturers, students and workplace
experts. The best projects produce new competence and know-how.
LbD is
also a method to fulfil the overall duty given to universities of applied
sciences, involving three basic tasks pedagogy, regional development and
research and development carried out in integrated and merged fashion.
Integration means making a solid connection between the three tasks such that
all students, lecturers and other staff can participate in all three at the same
time.
Laurea works in the highly competitive region of the Helsinki
Metropolitan Area. Within the innovation environment of the Metropolitan Area,
Laurea is profiled particularly as a developer of regional development
influence, R&D linked to cluster development, network and business competence,
related operating models, the welfare sector and welfare
entrepreneurship.
The regional vision for Uusimaa is to become the most
competitive, safe and welcoming metropolitan area in northern
Europe.
With regard to international relations, Laurea enriches its area
of operation with its international networks, R&D programmes and top-level
expertise, promoting the internationalisation of the broader metropolitan area.
In terms of innovation, Laurea strengthens and supports the innovation capacity
of its region and creates favourable conditions for the birth of innovation. |
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