2025

Packforce’s Social Media Activation Project 

In the autumn of 2025, an international digital marketing project was launched with a team consisting of business students from Laurea University of Applied Sciences and exchange students from Ukraine, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Many members of the project team have already completed several projects at Laurea, while for some students this is their […]

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Digital Marketing and Sales project – Chile – Finland Business Development Project

Kickoff day Our project started on September 2nd at 3 p.m. At first, we Finns introduced ourselves and briefly went over what would happen in the project. About an hour later, our Chilean teammates joined us. On the first day, we got to know each other, and the teachers divided us into groups. We collected

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Cross-Cultural Learning: Intensive Business Innovation Case Study Week with University of West Indies (UWI) in Barbados

Text: Yevheniia Verbytska & Eliise Zaitsev Erasmus+ Exchange as pilot of the three party collaboration with Laurea, UWI and the University of Johannesburg: Laurea Degree Students Yevheniia Verbytska and Eliise Zaitsev, Senior lecturer Marja Isokangas. Laurea continues to expand the reach of its pedagogical model, Learning by Developing (LbD), by implementing it in international settings

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Guide for Working Internationally  – a project output helping to navigate across cultures

Author: COIL Project Supervisor Elina Wainio, Senior Lecturer, Laurea  Understanding cultures and worldviews is an essential competence for everyone in the globalized world, especially for those acting in an international environment. But cultural awareness is not developed just by reading textbooks or attending lectures – just as you don’t learn to swim by watching videos

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Service Design – Skipa Quality-Driven Strategy Project

Currently, we are at the midpoint of our spring semester group project at Laurea University of Applied Sciences. Our team consists of 11 students, including Erasmus participants from the Czech Republic, Taiwan, and France. We are collaborating with Skipa Kiinteistöpalvelut Oy, a Finnish company offering cleaning, property maintenance, and property management services, to assess how

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Using AI to Support Finnish Export Companies – Our Project Towards Smarter Futures

About this project This spring, our P2P project has focused on developing an AI-based tool that helps Finnish export companies better understand and anticipate future market developments over a 3–5-year horizon. The idea is to give companies a smarter way to deal with uncertainty and complexity by providing data-driven insights and forecasts they can rely

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Building Bridges Across Borders with MyHomesID!

We started our project on January 14th, and now our project MyHomesID has officially ended. The goal was to help MyHomesID go international. The first step was thorough market research on the housing and real estate situation. This research provided valuable information about different markets and housing preferences in Europe. Next, we needed the help

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Service desing: AI for the export industry

Project description During this spring’s P2P project, we have worked in a diverse and international team, including exchange students from different countries. We aimed to develop a user-centered interface using service design methods and deliver a clear, functional solution for our project partner. This experience offered us valuable insight into collaborative design work and intercultural

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MyHomesID’s Internationalization and Market Research 

In the spring of 2025, an international project was launched with a project team consisting of business students from Laurea University of Applied Sciences (Finland) and one exchange student. The main goal of the project was to help MyHomesID expand into international markets. MyHomesID is a Finnish service developer that provides consumers and professionals with

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Digital marketing and sales in Hospitality and Tourism industry for Primehotels

Currently, we are at the midpoint of our spring semester group project· For the entirety of this semester, Laurea University of Applied Sciences is working with Primehotels, which operates three hotels in Finland. There are eight people in our project group, three of whom are exchange students from the Netherlands and the Czech Republic· Our

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