TAMK - not only studying but enjoying life as well

(In picture: Environmental engineering students enjoying 'Vappu', 1st of May party together in a picnic last year.)


TAMK is a place where one can have a freedom over what to do and when to do it. This has given me the chance to enjoy my studies and lead a relaxed life while still studying and learning at the same time. Its computer centers and labs are well equipped with the state-of-the-art technologies.

One of the most favorite experiences in ENVE is the fact that I was able to study with people of diverse background and cultures. Not to mention, Tampere is a great place for students with lots of fun activities both in summer and winter.

Abel T., Environmental Engineering, Ethiopia

TAMK Partner in World Summit Youth Award

The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) is a contest for youth-led online projects supporting the implementation of the UN Millennium Goals.

WSYA is arranged by the World Summit Award Network which operates in 168 countries in cooperation with UNESCO, UNIDO, Internet Society and other international organisations.

Everybody under 30 can participate in this contest with five categories:

1. Fight Poverty, Hunger and Disease !
2. Education for all !
3. Power 2 Women !
4. Create your Culture !
5. Go Green !

Deadline for submissions is February 28. Three winners in each category will be given the opportunity to showcase their platform to heads of state, business leaders and civil society at the World Summit Award (WSA) Gala and Winners Conference in June, 2009 in Monterrey, Mexico.

The organiser of WSYA activities in Finland is TAMK University of Applied Sciences.

UN Millennium Goals
World Summit Youth Award
World Summit Award

1112 students graduated from TAMK

The graduation ceremony took place on the 23r of January 2008. The programme included speeches, music and a break-dance performance “Breakin’ Gentlemen”.

1112 students graduated from TAMK in 2008. Out of these, 844 completed a UAS degree and 268 got their pedagogical teacher qualifications. 17 graduates got their Master’s Degrees.

The new graduates come from different degree programmes and 56 students earned their Bachelor’s Degrees from the international degree programmes of International Business or Environmental Engineering.

”It is significant to see the number of students who graduated from the degree programmes of Business Administration and International Business than was greater than expected”, says the Director of the Degree Programmes Reijo Rasmus.

TAMK has circa 5000 students, out of which circa 900 are adult students.

EU SBRM MSc teaching kicks off at TAMK

TAMK had the honour of hosting the first teaching sessions for EU Sustainable Business Risk Management MSc. Teaching sessions will also be held in other partner locations: Angers, France; Glamorgan, Wales. While our esteemed colleagues were visiting we also had time to have meetings, have a visit to Nokia Hervanta premises and shoot some video, in which eEDU got to show off our expertise. At Nokia our team got to hear about the the precent and future of multimedia which was enormously interesting.

Dawn Story (Associate Dean for Glamorgan University) gets teaching under way at TAMK

From the left: Marianna Leikomaa, Steve Lloyd , Trevor Price, Vincent Short ready for their visit at Nokia Hervanta

Visit to Wales for EU SBRM MSc

Our crack team from Tampere took part in planning meetings for the EU Sustainable Business Risk Management MSc program in December 2008. Finnish participants were Marjukka Dyer, Marja Kokko (pictured) and Jarno Tolonen. Host this time were our colleagues at Glamorgan University. The amenities were wonderful and somehow our hosts had managed to arrange sunny weather for our visit. We got a lot done in the meetings and were confident that kick-off in January at TAMK would be a success.



Marja, Marjukka and Vincent Short (ESAIP) on the way to Glamorgan

Marjukka operating the talking! info board at Glamorgan