Metropolia closes Leppävaara campus from 4.3.2019 onwards - Until then teaching will be reorganised with special arrangements
Metropolia’s Board of Directors has decided today Thu 21.2.2019 in its meeting that Leppävaara campus operations will be closed after week 9, and thus Metropolia will move its operations away from Leppävaara campus.
During 25.2.-3.3.2019, there will not be any contact teaching, but ...
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City of Espoo announced about the poor condition of Leppävaara Campus – Relocation planning has started
City of Espoo, the owner of Metropolia´s Leppävaara campus property, announced on February 14th 2019 about the poor condition of the campus´ supporting structures, urging Metropolia to move its operations away from Vanha maantie 6 and to find temporary facilities.
Metropolia has be...
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Thank you to all applicants for our international degree programmes
This spring’s first joint application period for Bachelor's and Master’s degree studies conducted in English ended on Wednesday 23.1. at 15.00 o’clock. In total, over 2500 applications were submitted to Metropolia.
Metropolia has in its offering six Bachelor’s degree program...
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LOGY Association awards Metropolia alumnus with scholarship
Finnish Association of Purchasing and Logistics, LOGY, recognized again the best Dissertation, best Master's thesis and best Bachelor's thesis in the field of purchasing and logistics. Winners were announced and awarded with scholarships at the annual members´ meeting on the 22nd of November 2...
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Otto Hokkanen - A Bold Entrepreneur and Grateful BBA student
Otto Hokkanen is a 21-year-old Metropolia student who moved from Mikkeli to Helsinki a year and half ago to study International Business and Logistics. Yeah, so what? Wait, there´s more; he has his own clothing line called Dens Clothing and he just established his first online shop. That´s ju...
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Make the choice of your life - choose Metropolia UAS!
Planning an international career and looking for studying in English language? Make the choice of your life and choose Metropolia, located in the metropolitan area of Finland.
The joint application for the English-taught Bachelor’s and Master's Degrees is from 9 to 23 January 2018. The studies beg...
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New publication: Metropolia Master´s – Discussions on the development of work life
The University of Applied Sciences Master’s Degree (YAMK) is a degree program intended for people who typically already have a Bachelor’s degree and are currently practicing their profession, but who wish to deepen their professional skills and competences through further studies. Studies in ...
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Record number of students graduate in 2018
Today is once again a day to remember for many students who have completed their studies at Metropolia as they celebrate their graduation on different campuses. A record number of students graduated this year, with more than 2,800 completing a Bachelor's degree and more than 400 completing a Master's deg...
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Lobbying and Decision Making in the EU - Metropolia Business School on a Study Trip in Brussels
Metropolia Master’s students in Business Development participated in a study trip to Brussels in early December. The highlight of the three-day trip was a visit to the European Parliament and a meeting with MEP Ms Lieve Wierinck.
The first part of the trip focused on the decision-making processes ...
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Urban Research as a European Mission – U!REKA Consortium held its 3rd Conference
Shaping Urban Communities by Smart and Sustainable Solutions was the topic of the third annual conference of U!REKA - the Urban Research and Education Knowledge Alliance - held in Frankfurt 26-28 November.
The consortium is formed by six European universities, and its purpose is to use its shared focus ...
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The Finnish higher education attracts the global education consultants
The education consultants around the world showed great interest in Finnish higher education at the Uniagents European Education Summit, held on 30.10.-1.11.2018 in Helsinki, Finland. Metropolia UAS co-hosted the summit in cooperation with Edunation, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, and Arcada...
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“This cooperation lasts long time” - The first staff exchanges between Metropolia and University of Colombo started
The first staff exchanges were implemented in the beginning of October 2018, when three Deans from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, came to Metropolia. The visitors were Professor Manjula Vithanapathirana, Faculty of Education; Professor JKD Sumedha Jayanetti, Faculty of Technology; and Professor De...
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Substantial Erasmus+ funding for collaboration with partner institutions outside Europe
Metropolia UAS received the largest funding in the Finnish UAS sector from the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (ICM) programme in the 2018 application round. The Finnish National Agency for Education awarded the funding to Metropolia for student and staff mobility with partner institutions from Au...
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3UAS and EduExcellence featured in learning festival Dare to Learn
Learning festival Dare to Learn was organized on 18-19 September in Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, and 3UAS was quite well presented in the event. 3UAS is a strategic partnership between Haaga-Helia, Laurea and Metropolia.
Dare to Learn gathered a vast and international group of experts to disc...
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ICT Summer School is fun and not just for ICT-students
The annual ICT Summer School was once again held on August (6.-24.8.) at Metropolia UAS, Leppävaara campus. In total 250 students from 30 countries attended the courses with great enthusiasm to enhance their knowledge on different areas of information and communication technology, as well as to...
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SWAIP - Develop curricula for a study programme which will train artists and health workers
The two-year Strategic Partnership Social inclusion and Well-being through the Arts and Interdisciplinary Practices (SWAIP) has received €204.855 from the Erasmus+ programme, to develop curricula for a study programme, which will train artists and health workers with an arts background to work wit...
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The Ministry of Health of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Metropolia UAS
The Ministry of Health of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia signed on Monday, 10.9.2018 a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation with Metropolia UAS in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Metropolia was represented by Director, Finance and Administration, Deputy CEO Simo Mustila.
The content of the memorandum contributes t...
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Metropolia's 10th anniversary
Metropolia UAS turns 10 years this year! We will celebrate the 10th anniversary with the students, the staff and the stakeholders of Metropolia on Tuesday, 18th September, 2-5 p.m....
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Student selection now published — Metropolia welcomes 3300 new students
The results of spring 2018 joint application have been published. This autumn 3300 new students begin their studies at Metropolia.
Metropolia had a total of around 24 000 applicants this spring. Over 3500 applications were submitted to Metropolia in the joint application for the degree pr...
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Students are interested in circular economy
Circular Economy has been a hot topic and the role of Circular Economy in business is growing. During the spring students from 3UAS - Haaga-Helia, Laurea and Metropolia Helsinki Metropolitan Universities of Applied Sciences, tackled the issue of circular economy and came up with different business models...
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The first Sri Lankan students with a made-to-order Bachelor Degree in Physiotherapy graduated
The first four Sri Lankan students with a made-to-order Bachelor Degree in Physiotherapy graduated today 25.5.2018 from Metropolia UAS. Ms Delexshana Thangavel, Mr Agneshian Priyanth Croos, Mr Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Pavan Akalanka Bandara and Ms Jalathge Samitha Sulochana layalath received their degre...
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U!REKA Research Co-operation and Structure Strengthened
Members of the six participating European universities of applied sciences of the U!REKA Consortium (The Urban Research and Education Knowledge Alliance) met in Ghent in April 2018 to decide on research strategy and organizational structure of the alliance.
The Steering Committee of the U!REKA consortiu...
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Academic year culminates into graduation ceremonies
Around 2060 new professionals graduated from Metropolia in the spring term 2018. Over 1800 students have attained, or will attain Bachelor's degree and nearly 260 have completed a Master's degree.
Most of the graduates of the past academic year are from the fields of Health Care and Social Services and ...
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First self-driving bus in Helsinki to Scheduled Service operated by Metropolia
The driverless bus on public roads paves the way for regular automated bus service in Helsinki. A self-driving electric minibus supplied by NAVYA to the Helsinki RobobusLine accepted the first passengers on board on May 14, 2018, launched scheduled service in regular traffic on roads in the Kivikko distr...
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Edunation and Metropolia co-operate to accelerate international on demand education
The Finnish education export company Edunation and Metropolia have signed a cooperation agreement regarding the international on demand education.
Metropolia seeks growth by investing in international on demand education, where Edunation's role is to support and strengthen this activity in the target co...
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Robotbuses in Helsinki this spring
From this spring onwards, there will be record numbers of robot buses driving on the roads of Helsinki. The first robot bus of the spring will start operating in Suvilahti from Thursday 26 April onwards – weather permitting! The route of the bus, which was developed in the SOHJOA project between Me...
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Testing phase for Metropolia’s new campus profiles begins – let your voice be heard!
Are the students of Myllypuro’s campus engineers of well-being and does developer campus describe Leppävaara perfectly?
We have now reached the testing phase of Metropolia and Miltton’s co-creation project where special charasteristics of each campus are defined together with students, ...
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Students Helped Fulbright Foundation to Organise and Host Cybersecurity Conference
An eager group of international second year Metropolia Business School students assisted the Fulbright Finland Foundation in organising the seminar Making Democracies Resilient to Modern Threats which took place in the Grand Festive Hall at Metropolia’s Bulevardi campus on 14 March 2018.
The stude...
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3UAS-Professional Summer School has started and first it's time for Cambridge Venture Camp!
The Cambridge Venture Camp got 78 applicants, and 17 students were chosen to participate the camp. The camp is organized by 3UAS – Haaga-Helia, Laurea and Metropolia Universities of Applied Sciences. The program for the camp is organized by Laurea Entrepreneurship Society, LaureaES.Suvi Lehtonen &n...
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Changing the world through encounters – fundraising campaign launched
Metropolia has launched its fundraising campaign. We are inviting our partners to join us in encounters that speed up renewal in society, changing the world around us. Our campaign theme is “Meaningful encounters that change the world”. These meaningful encounters will be created through the ...
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