TAMK broadens collaboration with ESAIP

On 7th of March 2011 we had a visitor from ESAIP, France. We had the privilege to meet Ms. Anne Cordier, the international coordinator of ESAIP.

ESAIP has been a TAMK partnership university for many years. During these years many engineering and environmental engineering students have been exchanged between TAMK and ESAIP.

Ms. Cordier had a meeting with Eeva-Liisa Viskari - the head of the Degree Programme in Environmental Engineering.

During her visit Ms. Cordier discussed the ongoing collaboration between TAMK and ESAIP. The relationship between the schools has been very flourishing and both parties are eager to continue this partnership in the future.

Ms. Cordier and TAMK International Services agreed to develop staff exchange between ESAIP and TAMK.

Additionally, Ms. Cordier had a meeting with the exchange students who are currently doing their exchange here in TAMK.

We are looking forward to meeting more exchange students and staff members from ESAIP.

Text: Elias Suominen
Photo: Elias Suominen

TAMK photo contest: The early bird catches the worm

Last autumn TAMK photo contest was looking for the best picture of TAMK feeling. Now we are looking for pictures of your morning.

How was your morning? Capture your feelings or thoughts about morning and share them with us. The best capture of morning will be rewarded with Giganti's 50 euros voucher. The second and third places will be rewarded with Finnkino movie tickets.

Upload your best morning on the competition event page on Facebook. You can upload photos until March 14th 2011. And if you don't have a Facebook account, no problem, send your pic(s) to Siru.Maatta(atsign)tamk.fi.

Voting is simple; just click “Like” on the picture of your choice. You can vote until March 21st 2011. The winner will be selected in collaboration of Facebook voting and TAMK's own jury.

If you want to, you can participate with several photos. So grab your camera and snap the winner shot of those early birds, late risers or of anything the morning represents you!

Photo contest event page
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The Legendary Film Festival Party March 10

The Legendary TAMK Party at Tampere Film Festival is here again and more horrifying than ever. Lose your mind and release your inner zombie on the dance floor of Klubi on Thu, Mar 10 starting at 9 p.m. If you dare?

The horror comes with:
The Friend
Plauge DJ's
VJ's stuua & valone

Tickets: €7 (pre-tickets for students €5)
Age limit: 18

Tickets are sold at the Tampere Film Festival Office (Tullikamarinaukio 2, 2nd floor) starting on Feb 23. In addition, there are tickets sold at the campus of Finlayson on Feb 25 and Mar 7-8 at 8.30 a.m. - 3.30 p.m. (the cafeteria). Tickets are also sold at the Tamko Office (the Kuntokatu campus).

In association with: Tampere Film Festival and Klubi
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Film Festival Party Commercial 1
Film Festival Party Commercial 2
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Film Festival Party on Facebook
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Kino TAMK screening at Tampere Film Festival March 10, 4pm, Tullikamari
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Greetings from Kevin Pontuti, UW-Stout

The partnership between University of Wisconsin and TAMK has now been extended to involve Fine Art and Media. Professor Kevin Pontuti will participate in Finlayson Campus International Week and Tampere Art Factory in April. We asked him to introduce himself and his department:

I am a transmedia artist and photographer currently in my 2nd year of teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. I received my MFA from Syracuse University in 1993. Presently, I teach Digital Narrative, Animation, Video and Digital Painting courses, as well as, the Senior Project course for our Multimedia Design Concentration.

Prior to moving to Wisconsin, I lived in Los Angeles for 13 years where I founded Studio P Inc., a digital art production studio that collaborated with Advertising Agencies, Entertainment Studios, Artists, Designers, Galleries and Museums to create a wide range of art and media related projects.

My creative research, pedagogical and curricular interests include transmedia narrative and entertainment design, primarily within animation, digital cinema, photography and games. I am currently developing and producing a number of projects including a short film, a motion comic, as well as, a continuous stream of photography related projects.

I am pleased to be participating in the TAMK School of Art and Media International Week. One of the main goals for my trip will be to explore exchange opportunities and to look for ways to foster collaboration between our respective universities. I’m also very excited to see what the students at TAMK School of Art and Media are up to and learn about their creative interests, as well as, the interests of the faculty. This will be my first trip to Finland and I greatly look forward to visiting Tampere.

UW-Stout, is located in Menomonie, Wisconsin, which is about an hours drive from Minneapolis/St. Paul. As a member of the University of Wisconsin System, one of the largest systems of public higher education in our country, UW-Stout is a Polytechnic University that offers of 40 undergraduate and 17 graduate programs across a wide range of disciplines.

The Department of Art and Design is one of the largest units on the UW-Stout campus with a fall 2010 enrollment of 887 students, providing a 4 year Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with 5 concentrations: Studio Art, Multimedia Design, Industrial Design, Interior Design and Graphic Design. We also recently added a new and very popular Game Design and Development major, which is taught in collaboration with our Computer Science Department. We’re launching a new MFA in Design Program, which will start in 2012.

Kevin Pontuti
Assistant Professor
Department of Art and Design
University of Wisconsin - Stout
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Tampere Art Factory

TAMK’s English degree programmes again increased popularity

The number of applicants to Tampere University of Applied Sciences increased by more than 10 per cent compared with last year. Tourism was TAMK’s most popular degree programme in the joint application for degree programmes conducted in English. The national joint application for English degree programmes ended on 15 February.

TAMK had 1119 primary applicants this year. The most popular degree programme was Tourism with 258 primary applicants (12.9 applicants/study place). The Degree Programme in Media had 195 primary applicants (9.8 applicants/study place), International Business 366 primary applicants (9.2 applicants/study place), Nursing 136 primary applicants (8.5 applicants/study place), and Environmental Engineering 164 primary applicants (5.5 applicants/study place).

In all, there were more than 3000 applicants for TAMK’s five English degree programmes. The educations starting in the autumn 2011 offered a total of 126 study places. The joint application data are based on the Finnish National Board of Education’s current statistics.

Joint application for the Finnish education and master’s degree programmes begins on 7 March and expires on 12 April. It is also possible to apply for TAMK’s English Master’s Degree Programme in Information Technology through separate application.