RetAiL project meeting in Tampere

The project partners from project RetAiL - Retail Management for Adults in Lifelong Learning will be arriving to Tampere on the 3rd of November. The visitors will be coming from Iceland and Scotland and they will stay in Tampere until the 7th of November.

The aim of the project Retail Management for Adults in Lifelong Learning is to transfer and implement an existing written material for teaching retailing management into an ICT-based learning material based on modules for open learning environment targeted for adult learners.

The meeting in Tampere will focus on the current situation of the project as well as the future developments.

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Picture: Taken by Hanna Torp at last spring's meeting in Thurso, Scotland

Visitors from Sapporo, Japan

Two visitors from Hokkaido University

TAMK hosted two professors from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan last week. During the visit, student and staff mobility were discussed, as well as best practices and principles of practical training were shared.

Hokkaido University

Tampere - the Focal Point of Northern Europe

Where is Tampere? At the edge of the tundra? Why should one bother to move to Tampere to study or to do business?

Tampere is actually the central spot of Northern Europe. If you want to draw a circle with a radious of 1000 km, including the Baltic sea, Scandinavia, Finland, and northern Russia, your circle will hit the Russian capital Moscow, the Polish capital Warsaw, Rostock in Germany and Hammerfest in northern Norway. And there it is, the centre of this circle, Tampere in Finland.

This 1000 km circle includes capitals like Copenhagen (distance from Tampere 913 km), Oslo (726 km), Stockholm (394 km), Helsinki (160 km), Tallin (235 km), Riga (505 km), Vilnius (762 km) and Minsk (873 km). St. Petersburg (396 km) is really close.

Tampere is really accessible: Direct flights from Riga, Milan, Bremen, Frankfurt, London, Dublin, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Helsinki, train from St. Petersburg and Helsinki, ferry + train from Tallin, Stockholm, Gdynia, Travemünde and Rostock.

Tampere is an attractive and international centre for students, 200 000 inhabitants and 40 000 students of higher education in five universities. The cultural life is rich, and the city is surrounded by beautiful lakes and forests.

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