Season’s Greetings to all our partners

Turku University of Applied Sciences’ record year 2025 is coming to an end.  At the heart of our success are our important partners, for whom we do our work. A warm thank you to all of you this year.   

Photo: City of Turku / Timo Jakonen

This year the mood has been a little gloomy across the nation, but many background variables have already started to improve. From the point of view of Turku University of Applied Sciences, this can be seen, for example, in the fact that the demand for our students for internships and thesis projects has again started to pick up after a couple of quieter years. This predicts that next year, the availability of talent will again be a key obstacle to growth in some sectors. We’re on the right track!  

We exist to serve and cooperate with you, our partners. The goal of Turku University of Applied Sciences is to produce new competence and experts in Southwest Finland. The development projects we have conducted with you and the guidance you have provided in the planning  of teaching show us the direction towards a better future on a daily basis. The expert speeches you have given and your active involvement in our students’ activities truly earn my deepest respect and gratitude. 

Before that, however, it is time to take a breather.  Year-end holidays are the times when you should focus on the most important things in life, whatever they are for each of you. I sincerely hope that each and every one of our partners will be able to give themselves a chance to escape their daily hustle and bustle and just enjoy rest and peace. 

I wish all our partners a very peaceful festive season and an inspiring year 2026.  

Vesa Taatila, Rector of Turku University of Applied Sciences