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SmartEdu – Smart Future Education and Competences
Developing competences and modernising learning solutions
A changing world challenges us to develop education and education systems and the ecosystems around them. To ensure vitality and competitiveness, new creative learning and knowledge management skills are needed. At HAMK, we respond to these needs by developing competence and renewing learning solutions together with, for example, educational organisations, governmental departments and business both in Finland and globally.
Our digital competence and quality in research, broad industry expertise and network in Finland and internationally are at the core of our operations. Our research objectives are strongly linked to the development and application of digital learning solutions. We create new opportunities for learning, for example through virtual solutions, gamification and analytics.
Our research contributes to the future of sustainable work, education and well-being. Well-being and skills improve the competitiveness of organisations. Prosperous employees develop their careers and make choices in a changing world that support their own and their organisation’s competence development.
Come and do research with us. You’re here to make a change.
Research areas
The SmartEdu key ecosystem brings together our multidisciplinary research that develops competences and modernises learning solutions in Finland and internationally. SmartEdu is divided into research areas, which we will update on our website as they develop.
One of SmartEdu’s research areas focuses on education and capacity building globally. Experts in our multidisciplinary research area promote sustainable growth and well-being by reforming education systems and developing competences in collaboration with our partners in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Our ongoing projects
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ACTIVE-ATS – Advanced Competencies of Teachers to Improve Vocational Education in Applied Technology Schools
Strengthening Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) teachers’ and trainers’ capacity to work in competence based TVET in Egypt.
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AgrGROW
Enabling student-centered learning at higher education institutions, creating a network-based learning ecosystem and the practices of climate-smart agricultural entrepreneurship.
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