Events, thought and goings-on at Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK)
Uncertainty shapes every stage of the modern B2B buying journey. With information overload, complex decision-making and shifting environments, both buyers and sellers struggle to make confident choices. These themes were actively explored and enthusiastically discussed as part of the Sales Management Master’s programme (YAMK).
In December 2025, six experts from the Tampere Universities Community - Juha Lahtinen (TAMK), Elina Harju (TAMK), Jukka Kemppi (TAMK), Henri Annala (TAMK), Minna Mäkihonko (TAU), and Roosa Yli-Pietilä (TAU) - participated in the final seminar of the EU4Inclusive Teaching project in Tirana, Albania.
If you are a teacher, the idea of working in an RDI project might sometimes feel unattractive. You might think it is somehow trivial or boring paperwork that will not really benefit anyone in the end. Let me offer you another viewpoint through a recent example.
In early April we took part in the three-day Nordic Forum in Rwanda, which brought together Nordic and Rwandan actors from education, business, healthcare and agriculture. The goal was to build new partnerships and highlight the opportunities Rwanda offers to foreign investors and companies.
We travelled to Kigali to organize a Digital Pedagogy Training workshop at Rwanda Polytechnic as part of the HEP-TED project. The participants included members of the institution’s Digital Champions network as well as other teachers interested in digitalization, who act as pedagogical developers in their own organizations. Together, we reflected on how artificial intelligence is transforming teaching and learning – and what kinds of skills teachers and students will need in the future.
Global collaboration in higher education is increasingly recognised as a vital driver of innovation and sustainable development, aligning strongly with TAMK’s strategy of being one of the most international universities of applied sciences in Finland. In this context, Durban University of Technology (DUT) and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) recently engaged in a strategic dialogue to explore opportunities for partnership in Research, Development, and Innovation (RDI).
The development of innovation is achieved when students, educators and companies collaborate on real challenges. One good example of how intensive cooperation and practical learning may result in meaningful outcome in a relatively short time is Sprint Pirkanmaa at Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK).
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) is part of the European Universities Alliance UNINOVIS. In September 2025, we—two senior lecturers, Milla Salama and Katja Hautsalo—visited Kauno Kolegija in Lithuania as part of the Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching program.
The Succeed in Business project is about to start its second round of training with new enthusiastic participants interested in entrepreneurship. There are about twenty young adults aged 18-25 from Finland who are expected to learn about entrepreneurship and what it takes to run a business. When we gathered with the Finnish group on 12.11.2025 in Paidia for a meeting to get to know each other, expectations for the course were also described as a desire to understand, among other things, "what it really takes to turn my ideas into something valuable".
Students join the discussion on brain health. Brain health has become a topic of universal interest. Both traditional and new media often present it through clickbait headlines or with information that is superficial – or even misleading. Tampere University of Applied Sciences, TAMK, acted on this current theme by organizing the Masters’ Conference: Brain Health in Working Life in early October. The conference brought together international experts to explore brain health from the perspective of working life.
At the beginning of November, UNINOVIS European Universities Alliance welcomed its newest member, The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS), bringing the number of full member-HEIs to eight. Upon joining, THUAS assumed the responsibility for planning and coordinating communications and marketing actions of the alliance, as well as defining the brand message of Uninovis. It was to this end that a meeting of all Uninovis communication leads was organized in The Hague on 10-11 November. The 2-day visit also provided an ample opportunity for the European colleagues to get to know the THUAS main campus, since most of us were in The Hague for the first time.
