2025

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

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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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 

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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

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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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Diverse Minds, Shared Goals – Why Diverse Learning Environments Matter

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Text: Terhi Kylliäinen, Noora Nikula, Anna-Elina Sirkka, Siiri Vatanen As the world becomes more aware of the complexities of the human brain, students in higher education with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are increasingly finding themselves receiving the help and support they need to navigate the demands of student life. Laurea University of Applied Sciences

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Three stories and a few more about lack of belonging to a student community as an online student

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We are online while hanging out with friends, working and studying. The amount of time we spend in digital spaces requires us to contemplate what the effects of it are. Studying online can be a freeing experience that allows us to better combine work, family and studying. On the other hand, it can lead to

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A sense of belonging – does age really matter?

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Text: Laura Jokela, Michael Järvinen, Emma Lindroos, Saana Mannerhovi, Katri Sulin In Laurea University of Applied Sciences’ online studies, students are randomly divided into small groups. Working with strangers may seem uneasy, but the purpose is to facilitate sparring and to create a sense of community. (Hämäläinen & Pohjanoksa 2024.) Connecting strangers who are working

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