Category: Project

Making a marshmallow tower can teach you business skills

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".

Leading Internationalization: TAMK’s Two New Team Finland Knowledge Projects for 2025

Team Finland Knowledge (TFK) projects are designed to foster international cooperation, innovation, and excellence in higher education. Funded by the Finnish National Agency for Education, these projects support the development of global partnerships, enhance the quality of teaching and research, and promote mobility for students and staff. Securing TFK funding is highly competitive, making it a significant achievement for any institution.

Kicking Off REAVES: Building Resilient Creative Ecosystems Across Europe

From September 16th to 18th, 2025, the serene surroundings of Hotel Gut Klostermühle in Alt Madlitz, Germany, provided the perfect backdrop for the kick-off meeting of the REAVES – Resilient Ecosystems for AV&M Entrepreneurial Support project. This gathering brought together project managers, researchers, and creative industry professionals from across the Baltic Sea Region and beyond, united by a shared vision: to strengthen the creative and cultural industries (CCI) through cross-sectoral collaboration and innovation.

AEQUALIS – searching for “equal, similar, or uniform” upskilling and reskilling ideals for European textile, clothing, leather, and footwear industries

Textile, clothing, leather and footwear – TCLF-branch in production has long and strong history and traditions in every nations cultures and heritage. Now this branch of skillful handicrafts, passionate creativity, traditional industry and innovative technology in designing and producing our everyday intimate skin and bodily connections with the world has very complicated challenges connected to e.g. global business with cheap mass production in developing countries, massive waste problem of used clothes, toxic production processes in the industry, problems of global social justice in working conditions of industry workers, to mention a few.

Entrepreneurial skills are important for young people - Succeed in Business starting a new round

The world is changing, and a permanent job is not a given for anyone, especially for a young person at the beginning of their career. Entrepreneurship skills can give young people the option to create their own work. Entrepreneurship is also of increasing interest to young people today. It is important that we offer young people support and skills to start their own business. This is what the Succeed in Business project is about.

Green travel in project, YES, it’s possible!

Part of project work is creation of reports, planning and dissemination. Traveling to consortium meetings is often on tight schedule and there isn’t always time to cocreate. Projects, besides the substance related goals aim at scaling cooperation, acquiring knowledge, building new and cementing existing networks. How does it relate to green travel?

At the Heart of Collaboration and Creativity – TAMK at the Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society Matchmaking Event

At the beginning of June, the Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society Matchmaking Event brought together leading European researchers, project professionals, and representatives from higher education institutions at the historic campus of the University of Greenwich in London. The event aimed to build new international consortia to respond to the themes of culture, creativity, and an inclusive society in the Horizon Europe 2025 call.