Turku UAS Sharing Excellence Days 2024
Welcome to Turku UAS Sharing Excellence Days for Administrative Staff 10–13 June 2024: ‘Increasing well-being through partnerships’
Come and share your excellence in international relations, regional partnerships, alumni relations and study support services! Turku UAS’s new Community and Collaboration unit is welcoming administrative staff to the beautiful city of Turku in June 2024. The Turku UAS Sharing Excellence event provides you with a great opportunity to exchange information, network with colleagues from around the world and plan future co-operation.
We are inviting experts from international relations, regional partnerships, alumni relations and study support services (especially study psychologists, student counsellor and DEI affairs) to join us in sharing expertise with other professionals from the same field. You will also get to know Turku UAS as a whole, take part in interesting workshops and discussions while experiencing the Finnish culture and the beautiful summer firsthand. We are not just offering our expertise for your use, but we are looking forward to hearing about your expertise and best practices at your home institution.
What kind of excellence can be found at your home university? What do you excel in? What kind of excellence would you like to learn from your colleagues? What could we do together in the future? How can we increase well-being through partnerships?
This event is a comeback of the Turku UAS Sharing Excellence events as the last one was organized in 2019, before covid-19. We hope to revive this successful tradition and see many of our colleagues from around Europe and world here in Turku in June.
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
Please register here latest by 30 April 2024!
Priority will be given to participants from Turku UAS partner HEIs if the available places are exceeded. We will send a confirmation email to all chosen participants with an invoice latest by 3 May.
Theme for the week: Increasing well-being through partnerships
Parts of the programme will be joint and parts will be expertise-specific.
The expertise-specific programme is organized by the following units:
- International relations services
- Regional partnerships unit
- Alumni relations services
- Student support services (study psychologists, study counsellor, DEI affairs)
Programme draft:
Monday 10 June 2024 at 18.00 Informal opening and get together at Restaurant Koulu, address Eerinkinkatu 18, Turku
Welcome drink (also non-alcoholic), pub quiz and getting to know each other
Tuesday 11 June 2024: A joined programme for all guests at Turku UAS Kupittaa campus
8.00-9.00 Registration at Turku UAS ICT-City campus lobby, address Joukahaisenkatu 3
9.00 Opening words by Turku UAS Rector and President Dr. Vesa Taatila
9.30 Getting to know each other
10.15 Presentation of Community and Collaboration unit at Turku UAS, Partnerships Manager Mikko Siitonen
10.45 Campus Tour at EduCity
12.00 Group photo at EduCity Stairs of Skill
12.30 Lunch at EduCity Kisälli restaurant
13.30-16.00 Ways of increasing well-being through partnerships -session
- Inclusion matters
- Turku UAS student union increasing well-being
- Increasing well-being through virtual reality
- Circular economy
- ENCARE-project: pre-award training
Wednesday 12 June: Field specific programme
9.00 start at EduCity and ICT-City (TBC)
The guests will be divided into smaller groups depending on their professional background and interests: International services, DEI-matters, Student well-being, Regional partnerships, Career services
12.30 Lunch at campus, after which the programme continues until 15.00
17.00 An evening by the sea
- Evening programme and dinner at a beautiful traditional setting at Villa Marjaniemi, Ruissalo Island, address Marjaniementie 50
- Possibility to go to sauna (not compulsory) + other low-key leisure activities
- More information about the local busses to Villa Marjaniemi coming later
Thursday 13 June Closing event and farewell
9.00 – 10.30 A Turku morning walk – a guided walk from Turku city centre to Kupittaa campus by official city guide and Senior Lecturer Susanna Saari
10.30 Closing event at EduCity: summary, feedback, future collaboration and certificates
12.30 Lunch at Kupittaa Paviljonki (TBC) and farewell
Please note that the event is on-site only!
Instructions for registration:
- The participation fee is 150 €. This fee will cover the lunches from Tuesday to Thursday the cultural evening programme on Wednesday. We will send a confirmation email to all participants with an invoice one week after the registration has closed. Other costs, such as travel, accommodation and daily allowance expenses, should be covered by the participants.
- Dead-line for registration is 30 April, 2024.
- Maximum number of participants for the event is 80 persons. Priority will be given to participants from Turku UAS partner HEIs if the available places are exceeded.
- In case you cannot finish the application, please start the registration process again using the same link above.
- Cancellations: Full return of the participation fee, if cancelled by 17 May, 2024, after which the participation fees will not be returned.
Please make sure you book your accommodation as early as possible. You can find more info on accommodation on the Practical Info page.
The programme and practical info will be updated when the registration opens in early 2024!
More information about Turku UAS can be found on our website.
For more information, please contact:
International coordinator Taina Nordgren, taina.nordgren@turkuamk.fi