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Tursajaiset is a legendary party for all new students in PIRAMK UAS and TAMK UAS. Tursajaiset of this year was celebrated yesterday at Härmälä Camping with hilarious assignments for the different student teams.

In the evening Tursajaiset continued at Onnela.

Photo: First year students at TAMK main campus preparing to march to the city centre to gather for Tursajaiset

Cristina Perales and Rosa Pons - Exchange Lecturers from Vic

University of Vic, Barcelona, is one of the universities TAMK has really intense cooperation with in different fields of education. We have students from Vic here all the time, and our students go to Vic.

Staff exchange is also frequent. This week Cristina Perales and Rosa Pons give a 5-day workshop titled “Visualizing: from the idea to the screen” to our 3rd year film and television students at TAMK School of Art and Media.

The student and staff exchange is really important for us. It gives new views, ideas and inspiration. And above all new international contacts and friends.

Most of School of Art and Media incoming staff exchange takes place during the annual International Week, when lecturers and students from up to 15 universities come to our campus at Finlayson. This academic year the International Week takes place May 3-7.

University of Vic

Pictured: Cristina Perales and Rosa Pons at the roof garden of the Finlayson Campus

Guests from Sendai, Japan

Today our Finlayson campus had visitors from Japan. Six students from Miyagi University, Sendai, made a tour around the School of Art and Media, followed a presentation about TAMK University of Applied Sciences, saw some films, and of course had a look at the proAcademy.

The students are on a three week study trip in Tampere, hosted by PIRAMK University of Applied Sciences. Miyagi University is one of PIRAMK partner universities, soon also TAMK partner, TAMK and PIRAMK will merge at New Year.

Three of the students study architecture, two business and one graphic design. During the visit they compare Finnish and Japanese architecture, culture and design, they also have assignments related to their field of study.

Miyagi University
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Photo: Guests at the Finlayson campus roof garden, on left PIRAMK International Coordinator Marika Kyllönen

Dr. Helmut Voulliéme, Guest from Ostfalia UAS

Dr. Helmut Voulliéme, Professor in Interactive Media from Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences (earlier Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel UAS) paid a visit to TAMK this week. On Wednesday he visited TAMK main campus to meet Head of International Office Riku-Matti Kinnunen & other international office staff members and Director of R&D Perttu Heino.

Ostfalia UAS has been TAMK partner for a long time and the exchange and cooperation have been intense, but there has been no contacts in the fields of art and media. On Thursday Helmut Voulliéme visited the School of Art and Media at Finlayson Campus.

Helmut Voulliéme is head of the Media Design Programme which started a couple of years ago in Salzgitter Campus of the university, so he is the right person to talk about extending cooperation between Ostfalia and TAMK to include exchange and other cooperation between the Ostfalia Media Design Programme and TAMK Media Programme during the visit. The result of the visit was excellent, and we might see professors and students from Salzgitter already in May participating in School of Art and Media International Week 3-7 of May.

After the School of Art and Media tour he visited our neighbour, the ProAcademy study programme in entrepreneurship, which was introduced by Jukka Siltanen.
Of course there was also a visit to Demola, the joint innovation space of companies and students of all Tampere Universities.

Ostfalia UAS

Demola
ProAcademy
Pictured: Dr. Helmut Voulliéme in the roof garden of School of Art and Media

The Third MA in Screenwriting Started

The third implementation of the joint MA in Screenwriting Programme of TAMK University of Applied Sciences and Salford University started yesterday.

Fourteen students form UK, Czech Republic and Finland will learn film scripting this autumn in Tampere, next spring in Manchester. There will additionally be distance learning and project next summer and autumn. Salford University will finally give the Master's certificate.

TAMK School of Art and Media and the School of Media, Music & Performance of Salford University have had cooperation since 1994. There has been frequent student and staff exchange, joint film projects and finally the joint MA Programme.

Master of Art in Screenwriting
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