Project blogs

Keys to Successful International Cooperation in a Challenging Student Project at Laurea University. 

We BBA students, guided by Aapo Hollanti, are in an international project designing a company video for Karotek Oy’s website together with students from Mount St Joseph University in the United States. The project has turned out to be a laborious but worth learning. Our project team consists of seven students and two of them […]

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A social media marketing lesson for export indusrty organized by the project team 

Summer is coming and the projects are coming to an end soon. Our project team has had fun and we have learned a lot together. The final scrunch is still left, but I know that we can start the summer with a successful project. In this post, I want to tell about something that the

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International Team working in collaboration with Laurea Marketing – project 2023

Writers: Jesus Esparza, Paule Jean This student project is composed of four Finnish students and four exchange students from Mexico, France, Romania and Japan. The client was Laurea Marketing and the purpose of this project was to assist Laurea’s marketing department in promoting the university, improving its marketing and developing its visibility to attract local

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Workshop together with teachers from Latin America

Purpose of our project Our project team’s assignment in Service Design course is to make introduction videos for HEIComp Canvas course. HEIComp canvas course consist of eight modules that contain information on how to run the project and how the teacher’s role in the project is different compared to regular university teacher role. Project team

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Improving recruitment programs in the healthcare sector to tackle the challenges of tomorrow – International recruitment pilot – Filipino nurses

The Finnish government ruled in 2020 that for every patient in care there should be at least 0,7 nurses. This so called “hoitajamitoitus” was set to go into effect in April of 2023. However, at the beginning of 2023 the actual number of nurses in Finland was lagging significantly behind this desired goal. According to

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Service Designing a digital platform for first homeowners

Understanding your customers’ needs is one of the most important assets when designing a service. Making your target group involved with the designing process saves time and money, as it helps to know who, why, and what you are designing for. When the target group has been included in the process, the result is already

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Survival kit for Konecranes

We started our project in January 2023. Our client is Konecranes Finland oy. Konecranes is big company that provides lifting machine tools. Last year they had over 3,37 billion revenue. Konecranes operates in 50 different countries and employs 16500 people. In Finland Konecranes have over 200 international employees our goal is to find out what

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Taking Seppo to Chile 

Seppo.io is considering expanding its operations into Chile. Seppo already has a presence in Brazil and is looking for new opportunities in Chile. They’ve decided to seek out those opportunities with the assistance of Laurea university of applied sciences students.  What is gamification?  Gamification refers to the process of adapting game design and mechanics to

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What is done during a website design process?

WHAT IS DONE DURING A WEBSITE DESIGN PROCESS? We are an SBA project team who designs a new website to The Finnish Railway Museum. They asked us to do a new design for a new website. We did a couple of design documents after doing a user study of the old site and site mapping

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Learning by developing (P2P) around the world – Join our journey! 

Students have challenges to combine theoretical and practical learning. What would it be like to gain work experience during your studies? How to become more professional while work studying? Laurea has responded to these challenges for students. Laurea has found a new way to combine academic and real-life learning. P2P is a great way to

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