Project blogs

How to Access Latin America Social Media Channels Focusing on Education 

How should be communicated on social media from Working Life Connected pedagogy to Latin American universities? What would be the social media channels and core messages of the communication? That was the challenge assigned by our project’s Brazilian employer U.Experience. Company’s assignment for Laurea University of Applied Sciences students was to find the social media […]

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Remote working: A point of view from an exchange student

I am Pik Lau, an exchange student from Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a place which always seeks for efficiency. So as the COVID-19 pandemic rages, Hong Kong has started to follow the trend in the world of remote working for maintaining economic growth. But when there is an easing trend of COVID-19, ‘work from

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The First Half of the International Project

For our digital marketing and sales project, it is our privilege to work with not one, but two Finnish companies.One company (A) is focused on food and beverage products, with 100% natural grain-based liquid ingredients, operating in the business-to-business (B2B) sector. The other company (B) focuses on plant-based beverages and pure and has a bigger

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Innovating Sustainability: A Journey with Hotel Sveitsi

In a world where environmental consciousness is no longer just a trend but a necessity, businesses across industries realize sustainability’s significance in their operations. Hotels play a crucial role in this narrative, as they have the potential to significantly impact the environment due to their energy consumption, waste generation, and resource usage. One such hotel

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Lumon International Ireland project conclusion

Greetings from the Lumon International Ireland project! As the spring semester draws to a close, so does our project. This blog post serves as a continuation of our previous update from the start of April (Link below). Our team has finished the project and we had a gains and results meeting with the client from

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Our project day at Kauppakeskus Lohi 

Our project day at Kauppakeskus Lohi on 13.3.2024 was an enlightening journey into the heart of responsible business practices. Part of our project team embarked on this excursion to delve into the daily operations of the center’s tenants and understand firsthand how responsibility shapes their endeavors. We had hoped to chat with more tenants, but

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The Final Phase of The Project – Service Design Project

We eagerly started working with the new team in January. Our project focuses on service design, with the Hyvinkää Parish as the client. Our team consists of eight people, so we’ve got a pretty big group to work with. Our team supervisor is Piia Haavisto. All projects were tasked to produce an article by their

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Revolutionizing Higher Education: The Developing study model in the HEIComp Project – A Student’s Perspective on Bridging the Gap between Student Competences and Working Life Needs

In the blog, we will discuss a project that aims to modernize the educational system in Latin American educational institutions to prepare students for professional life, as well as students’ attitudes towards this study model. (The HEIComp project puts Laurea’s LbD expertise into practice in Latin America. 2023. Accessed 18 March 2024. https://www.laurea.fi/en/current-topics/news/the-heicomp-project-puts-laureas-lbd-expertise-into-practice-in-latin-america/) We will

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International teamwork – Chile service design project

This spring a team of Laurea’s students Tuomas Könnilä, Heta Kannela, Aksel Eskola, Tiana Kevic, Rilla Räsänen and Anne Warren have been working on a service design project. The project is a cooperation between Universidad del Desarollo (UDD) and Laurea. The team of Chilean student’s from UDD include Sofia Tapia, Pablo Gonzalez, Fabrizio Enriotti, Esperanza Sánches Sarraf

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