Application Time Starts After Two Weeks

Two weeks to go: the application time for the degree programmes taught in English of Finnish universities of applied sciences starts on Monday, January 12th and is closed on Friday February 13th.

TAMK University of Applied Sciences welcomes applications to three Bachelor's Degree Programmes:

• Environmental Engineering
• International Business
• Media

Applicants to the Media Programme will send a three-part pre-task, which now is available at the web-page of the programme.

Full description of the application process

Degree Programme in Environmental Engineering
Degree Programme in International Business
Degree Programme in Media

Photo: © City of Tampere/Sami Helenius
Tampere Illuminations

International Week of Artmedia in May

The TAMK School of Art and Media will arrange her second International Week May 11-14, followed by the second Tampere Art Factory (TAF) May 15-16. Invitations have already been sent to partner universities.

The events in May this year became very successful, the week and the festival were visited by 50 professors, lecturers, students and company representatives from 18 universities and three companies from 15 countries.

The core of the International Week was lectures, presentations, tutorials and workshops given by our international guests. The results of the workshops were presented at Tampere Art Factory.

The participants of the International Week and TAF gave very good feedback. They liked very much the opportunity to see the presentations of their colleagues, to discuss during the breaks in the International Teachers’ Lobby, and to network during the evening programme. A lot of new relationships and project ideas were born during the sunny spring days and nights in Tampere.

The networking has continued at several occasions after TAF. Many International Week lecturers met each other again at the Academic Network Conference in Graz, November.

Tampere Art Factory

Photo: The Circle of Friendship at the smoke sauna evening hosted by TAMK International Office Photo by Juha Suonpää

New TAMK Innovation Saves Energy

Science journalist Kalle Heiska has published a report about our new lighting method at his web site "New High Technology!":

"TAMK University of Applied Sciences in the City of Tampere (Finland) has developed a unique lighting method intended for use in commercial greenhouses. Here the light required by the plants is produced by means of LED technology between the rows of plants. It is estimated that in the future the method will achieve savings of up to one half of the present vast need for energy in hothouses. "

Read the whole story

Photo: For use in the hothouse, the curtain of light between the rows of plants is an idea cultivated by Matti Horppu, lecturer at TAMK University of Applied Sciences (left) and Managing director Esa Kivioja of the company KKK-Vihannes Oy. The use of the curtain has been piloted in the cultivation of cucumbers.

Photographer: Niko-Matti Kivioja

Earlier articles by Kalle Heiska about TAMK projects:

Alpo welfare portal
Instrument for measuring air quality
Theatrical functions modelling project
Technique for the frame of the outside walls of wooden buildings
Learning environment for the design of aluminium structures
Materials bank for teaching programming
Dry toilet compost
Social Media
One hundred Finnish soundscapes

TAMK business students have enjoyed their stay in Amsterdam

On a day three of TAMK delegation trip to the Netherlands Aura Loikkanen and Kirsi Tolvanen visited the HES School of Economics and Management which is part of Hogeschool van Amsterdam. During the visit Aura and Kirsi met the staff of the International Office and discussed about future cooperation between TAMK and HES. They were hosted by Judith Rijpstra and André Resing. Student exchange cooperation between TAMK and HES have worked well both ways for many years and in the future both parties wish to do also teacher and staff exchanges.

The HES building is modern and has good facilities for studying. There are many international students every year at HES and the students from abroad can study in English. The school is only about 15 minutes from the city centre of Amsterdam by train or metro.

During the meeting the TAMK delegation had a change to discuss with TAMK business students who are studying at the moment in HES. Henna Kuivalainen, Perttu Noppari and Juha-Pekka Ropo told that they have enjoyed their stay in Amsterdam and have learned a lot during their study exchange period abroad. Henna, Perttu and Juha-Pekka will return back to Finland by Christmas but all of them hope to come back to Amsterdam soon (at least for a holiday!).

There was also a change for Aura, Kirsi and the TAMK students to meet the three students from HES who will come to TAMK International Business programme for the spring term 2009. The HES students Renee, Michael and Frank are looking forward to study at TAMK and to have good time in Finland!

Story: Kirsi Tolvanen, International Coordinator and Aura Loikkanen, Development Director
Photo: TAMK student helped HES students to select studies from the TAMK International Business programme

The Last IMP Premiere

The ninth edition of the Interactive Media Programme made the IMP 2008 DVD premiere. This attractive DVD with a hilarious user interface presents the shortfilms, interactive movies and other art work made by the students over four months of hard work and intense learning.

This year the 17 students came from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the UK.

The Interactive Media Programme is a special one semester study programme at TAMK School of Art and Media, run in English, designed for exchange students. IMP has been arranged every autumn since 2000. This was the last IMP in its present form.

In 2009 the current BA Degree Programme of the School of Art and Media run in Finnish will split into two new Bachelor's programmes: The Degree Programme in Film and Television (in Finnish), and the Degree Programme in Media, completely run in English. The new Media Programme focuses on interactive media, and will host future exchange students. Another option for exchange students is also under construction: The Film and Television Programme and the Fine Arts Programme will jointly offer a one semester course on Hybrid Movie.

The IMP students were again active not only in school work, but also participating in the international social life in Tampere. No, it was not only the parties. To name an example, many students took part in the My Tampere contest of MindTrek Awards. Dan Castro and Nick Rowley took the first price with their animation "Tampere - A Truly British Guide".

Thank you, IMPs! Fly safe back home! We will miss you, but we know we will see you in Tampere again.

The New Media Programme
Tampere - A Truly British Guide