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OuluRaaheOulainen

Helsinki

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Finnish Education System

Basic education

Preschool Education

Matriculation examinations

Vocationalqualifications

Universities

Polytechnic degrees

5

4

3

2

1

3

2

1

4

3

1

3

10

9

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

16

15

14

13

12

11

10

9

8

7

6

Upper Secondary Schools

Lower academic degrees

Higheracademicdegrees

PhD

Lic.

1

2

Polytechnics

work experience

2

Specialistqualifications

Furtherqualifications

work experience

Vocational Institutions and apprenticeship training

Agework experience

Com

pulsory Education

Polytechnic second cycle degree

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Oulu Polytechnic

– 7 700 students including • 92 international degree students and

• 180 exchange students from ca. 47 countries

– 1 470 annual intake in the education leading to a degree for young people

– 1 200 students in adult education

– 1 100 completed degrees annually

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Oulu Polytechnic

– 700 teachers and other staff members• in addition ca. 105 visiting lecturers and experts from abroad

– € 45 million annual turnover (= 6,249,999,588.06 Japan Yen)

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Organisation of Oulu Polytechnic

School of Health and Social Care

Kari Virolainen

School of Business Studies

Paavo Similä

RectorLauri Lantto

Institute of Technology

Risto Kimari

School of Vocational

Teacher EducationPirkko Remes

School of Renewable Natural

ResourcesReino Rossi

Raahe Institute of Technology and

BusinessTimo Pieskä

School of Music, Dance and Media

Airi Hirvonen

Professional Development

ServicesErkki Komminaho

Library

Pirkko Pietiläinen

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The Tasks of Oulu Polytechnic

A) To provide professionally orientated academic studies leading to a polytechnic degree (Bachelor)

• Vocational Teacher Education• Professional Specialisation Studies• Short Term Supplementary Studies• Open Polytechnic Studies

• Also to provide:

B) Research and Development

C) Regional Development work

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Polytechnic in Regional Development

– Educating work force for regional needs.

– Supporting entrepreneurship.

– Developing project and innovation activities.

– Taking part in the regional strategy development.

– Taking part in the regional centre and centres of expertise programmes.

– Promoting international interaction.

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Tasks of the polytechnics

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Polytechnic Research and Development

– Part of the basic function and regional development objective.

– Improves polytechnic education and serves working life.

– Is vocationally oriented.

– Enables education’s flexible response to changes in needs for expertise.

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Research and Development at Oulu Polytechnic

The main objective of the research and development activities at Oulu Polytechnic is to develop teaching by increasing expertise.

Research and Development is a solid part of the studies and motivates teachers to become top experts in teaching and in their own professional fields.

Research and Development is professionally oriented and closely related to the working life. The changing competence requirements of the working life can flexibly be taken into consideration when planning the education.

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Research and Development Focus Areas

– The Polytechnic is committed to implementation of Oulu 2006 Growth Agreement, which is part of Objective 2 –programme of the EU.

– Oulu Polytechnic’s focus areas of research and development are:

• Welfare

• Information technology

• Media and content production

• Environment

• Bio field

• Business development

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Polytechnics’ Role in R&D

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Educational supply

– Education leading to a higher education degree (Bachelor’s degrees, 210–270 ECTS cr., 3.5–4.5 years)

– Postgraduate degrees (60–90 ECTS cr.)

– Professional specialisation studies (30–60 ECTS cr.)

– Vocational teacher education (52.5 ECTS cr.)

– Supplementary training

– Open Polytechnic

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Structure of Studies

Further education

Professional Specialisation Studies30–60 ECTS cr

Polytechnicundergraduate

degree

3.5–4.5 years

210–270ECTS cr

Bachelor’s thesis 15 ECTS cr

Practical training 30–120 ECTS cr.

Free-choice studies

15 ECTS cr

Second cycle

degree

After three years work experience

60–90 ECTS cr

Professional studies(compulsory / optional)

Basic studies(compulsory / optional)

135–240 ECTS cr

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30 Degree Programmes in 6 Fields of Study

Social Sciences, Business and Administration– Business Economics,

Oulu and Raahe– International Business,

in English

Culture– Dance Teacher Education– Library and Information

Services– Music– Communication

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30 Degree Programmes in 6 Fields of Study

Natural Resources and the Environment– Agricultural and Rural

Industries– Horticulture– Landscape Planning

Natural Sciences– Business Information

Systems, Oulu and Raahe– Business Information

Technology, in English

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30 Degree Programmes in 6 Fields of Study

– Automation Engineering – Building Services – Civil Engineering– Information Technology,

in English, Raahe – Information Technology and

Telecommunications, Raahe

– Information Technology and Telecommunications, Oulu

– Laboratory Sciences– Mechanical and Production

Engineering – Medical Engineering

Technology, Communication and Transport

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30 Degree Programmes in 6 Fields of Study

Social Services, Health and Sports– Biomedical Laboratory

Technology– Dental Health Care– Emergency Nursing– Nursing and Health Care,

Oulu and Oulainen– Occupational Therapy– Optometry

– Orthopaedic and Prosthetic Technology

– Physiotherapy– Radiography and

Radiotherapy– Rehabilitation Counselling– Social Services

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Annual intake (2004: 1 470 starting places)

Social Services, Health and Sports, 20%

Natural Resources and the Environment, 4%

Natural Sciences, 9%

Culture, 8%

Technology, Communications and Transport, 44%

Social Sciences, Business and Administration, 15%

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Students at Oulu Polytechnic

Technology, Communications and Transport, Oulu, 35%

Technology, Communications and Transport, Raahe, 9%

Social Sciences, Business and Administration, Oulu, 12%

Social Sciences, Business and Administration, Raahe, 2%

Natural Sciences, Oulu, 5%

Natural Sciences, Raahe, 2%

Natural Resources and the Environment, 4%

School of Vocational Teacher Education,5%

Culture, 7%

Social Services, Health and Sports, 17%

Others *, 2%

* Open Polytechnic students and incoming exchange students

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Projects

Projects help to

– strengthen connections with working life

– further the competitiveness of regional economic life

– develop leisure time and well-being services, as well as

– improve Polytechnic education

In projects the Polytechnic can act as a coordinator or partner.

Some more facts …

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R & D project examples at Oulu Polytechnic

- With the Software Business Competence Project (SBC) the School of Business Studies of Oulu Polytechnic further develops software business education and IT-related learning environment in cooperation with companies. The SBC project will enhance the internationalisation of the School of Business Studies and the development of the technology skills to support this

-- Octopus - Open innovation, development and testing environment for mobile applications and services

-The goal of the Mobiart project was to create a community comprising the content and media sectors and technology companies, which develops digital content products and services that utilise mobility for the international market. Mobient

-- The R&D Centre for Welfare Technology project

-- PEAR (Personalized Mobile Advertising Services) project aims at developing a service system for customer relationship management in mobile context. The central objective of the project is to develop a multi-channel service system for planning, implementing and analyzing mobile marketing campaigns