International TUAS

At Turku University of Applied Sciences international perspective is integrated into all the activities, teaching, RDI as well as working life co-operation. This guarantees that our students and staff have the intercultural skills needed in today’s multicultural working life. It also ensures the high international quality of our education and applied research.

TUAS international activities include for example:

• student and staff mobility
• teaching in foreign languages
• language and cultural studies
• international co-operation in curriculum development
• international research, development and innovation projects
• export of education.

The countries in the Baltic Sea area and Europe at large are the main focus areas of TUAS international co-operation. However, we have field-specific co-operation partners also in Asia and in both North and South America. Moreover, TUAS carries out development projects in Africa in close collaboration with the local organisations.

Good partners – better results

Together with Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Polytechnic University Valencia and Manchester Metropolitan University, TUAS forms CARPE, Consortium on Applied Research and Professional Education.

The objectives of CARPE are to intensify student and staff mobility amongst the partners, develop joint study programmes and to co-operate in European research programmes. By establishing a strong European reputation the strategic alliance aims to increase the amount of external funding to its member universities.

Contact

Anu Härkönen, International Relations Manager