Humak

Humak in a nutshell

Humak University of Applied Sciences is a high-profile, nationwide university of applied sciences, specializing in organisational activities and youth work, work community development, entrepreneurship in cultural management and creative industries, and interpreting. We are the largest actor in our educational sectors in Finland.

The special feature of Humak is its deep roots and ownership in liberal adult education and civic organisations. Humak was established on the need to ensure nationwide, university-level specialist education and research, development and innovation activity in narrow but socially significant fields.

To ensure the nationwide availability of education and a strong cluster of expertise – a prerequisite for high-quality operations – Humak operates through a regionally decentralised, but operationally integrated nationwide network.

Humak is owned by Suomen Humanistinen Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy. We have 1,500 students and around  130 professionals working with us.

A community sharing its knowledge

Humak seeks to intensify the work with its current partners and builds actively new partnerships. Humak is a community, and its operations are based on sharing knowledge and expertise openly and producing new informatiton in cooperation through various networks.

It is our aim to share our training, innovation and service processes with our partners and to thus ensure the development of training, tuition and new knowledge, together in a network, and to smoothly transfer the knowledge for the use of the professional sector.

Cooperation and common processes create a platform for the forecasting, innovation and development of future solutions. Students are closely involved in the development work, and Humak’s personnel bring their own expertise to the processes for the use and benefit of our partners.

Humak is an entity, a national cluster of expertise which serves its fields in the entire Finland and also internationally.

Humak’s  vision is to be a international and social university, engaged in the development of a fair and communal Finland. Our mission is to provide participation, social wellbeing and communality. We create information, competence and expertise in our fields.

Humak’s strengths

We are looking strong partnerships with Finnish and foreign universities. The Strengths are based on our competence and make our profile concrete and highlight the cutting edge of our fields of activity. The strengths guide the strategic development of our operations. The strengths create even stronger competence clusters and expertise and they also guide the management of our partnerships.

• Youth work and communality: we produce the skills to encounter young people
• Organisation work, work communities and integration: we improve the functionality, competitiveness and communal development of work communities.
• Interpreting and linguistic accessibility: we participate in the development of professional skills and technology supporting linguistic accessibility.
• Cultural management and conveyance: we promote cultural management skills as activity supporting participation, and develop digital environments for cultural and artistic productions and services.

New, emerging sectors that rise from the margins of our strength areas which guarantee that the competence requirements of the business and industrial life are taken into account in our activity: New participants (we reduce the feeling of not belonging and marginalisation), New communality (we encourage network-based nanagement and guidance), Communication expertise (we promote the encountering of diversity and knowledge of cultural minorities), Human rights and equality (we encourage societal equality).

Our values

• We respect each other
• We are open
• We succeed together
• We are brave in the way we renew and are renewed

We are looking for strong partnerships with Finnish and foreign universities

Organisational structure and management

President/CEO – Jukka Määttä

Humak’s organisation is divided to three services: education, innovation and common services. Our strenghts guide the work  in all of the service branches.

Personnel email is form firstname.lastname@humak.fi. You find the contact details by clicking the people-icon in the header of our pages. You can also google the name by “firstname lastname Humak” and it will usually be the first result of your search.

Management

Education services are responsible for Humak’s degree programmes and education, library management and study affairs.

• Education director Päivi Marjanen
• Education manager Reijo Viitanen (community educator programmes)
• Education manager Katja Kaalikoski (cultural management)
• Education manager Tytti Koslonen (interpreting)
• Education manager Kim Lindblad (adventure and outdoors education)

Innovation services administer and govern Humak’s RDI, publication and business activities. All strength areas are represented in the innovation services and teams are lead by team leaders.

• Innovation director Timo Parkkola
• Innovation manager Mikko Äärynen
• Communications manager Jarmo Röksä

Service process manages university of applied sciences management in finances, HR, communications and ICT.

• Service director Anna Mattila
• Study affairs manager Noora Ahti
• ICT manager Ari Savander

Finnish University of Applied Sciences Ltd – Suomen Humanistinen Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy

Humak University of Applied Sciences is owned by (as 1.1.2015 -)

• Alkio-opiston kannatusyhdistys ry
• Kuurojen liitto ry
• Paasikiviopistoyhdistys ry
• Pohjois-Savon Kansanopistoseura ry
• Palkansaajien koulutussäätiö sr
• Työväen Akatemian Kannatusosakeyhtiö

Official contact adress:

Suomen Humanistinen Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy
Ilkantie 4, 00400 Helsinki

Board of Directors

Jukka Määttä, Principal/CEO
Ari-Pekka Lundén, President of the board, Palkansaajien koulutussäätiö sr
Jaana Laitila, Vice president of the board, Alkio-opiston kannatusyhdistys ry
Timo Heinola, Vice president of the board, Kuurojen liitto ry

Eevi Kurtti, Pohjois-Savon Kansanopistoseura ry
Heikki Sarso, Paasikiviopistoyhdistys ry
Jari Valtari, Työväen Akatemian Kannatusosakeyhtiö
Pekka Kaunismaa, representant of personnel
Gurmann Saini, representant of students

Where we are

Humak is operating nationwide in Finland. Our institution has campuses and research units in four major areas: Helsinki Metropolitan area (Helsinki RDI center, Nurmijärvi Campus and Kauniainen Campus), Turku, Jyväskylä and Kuopio.