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Humak in a nutshell<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

To ensure the nationwide availability of education and a strong cluster of expertise \u2013 a prerequisite for high-quality operations \u2013 Humak operates through a regionally decentralised, but operationally integrated nationwide network.<\/p>\n

Humak is owned by Suomen Humanistinen Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy. We have 1,500 students and around\u00a0 130 professionals working with us.<\/p>\n

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A community sharing its knowledge<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Humak is an entity, a national cluster of expertise which serves its fields in the entire Finland and also internationally.<\/p>\n

Humak’s\u00a0 vision<\/strong> is to be a international and social university, engaged in the development of a fair and communal Finland. Our mission<\/strong> is to provide participation, social wellbeing and communality. We create information, competence and expertise in our fields.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Humak’s strengths<\/h2>\n
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Humak’s strengths and new, emerging fields.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/p>\n