Laurea University of Applied Science

Laurea is a research-oriented and developmental university of applied sciences that produces new competence that has been awarded with multiple Centre of Excellence awards in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. Laurea’s pedagogical innovation, the Learning by Developing (LbD) model, is built on a development project that is genuinely rooted in the world of work, which aims to produce new practices and whose progress requires collaboration between lecturers, students and workplace experts. The best projects produce new competence and know-how.

LbD is also a method to fulfil the overall duty given to universities of applied sciences, involving three basic tasks – pedagogy, regional development and research and development – carried out in integrated and merged fashion. Integration means making a solid connection between the three tasks such that all students, lecturers and other staff can participate in all three at the same time.

Laurea works in the highly competitive region of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. Within the innovation environment of the Metropolitan Area, Laurea is profiled particularly as a developer of regional development influence, R&D linked to cluster development, network and business competence, related operating models, the welfare sector and welfare entrepreneurship.

The regional vision for Uusimaa is to become the most competitive, safe and welcoming metropolitan area in northern Europe.

With regard to international relations, Laurea enriches its area of operation with its international networks, R&D programmes and top-level expertise, promoting the internationalisation of the broader metropolitan area. In terms of innovation, Laurea strengthens and supports the innovation capacity of its region and creates favourable conditions for the birth of innovation.

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LAUREA BUSINESS VENTURES BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM

Laurea Business Ventures (LBV) is Laurea’s business development unit in Otaniemi. The actions of Laurea Business Ventures aim to assist the establishment of new companies and to develop the business and growth possibilities of existing companies also in international operational environment.

In the Degree Programme in Business Management (BBA) at Laurea Otaniemi students develop professional competences in a multinational environment and entrepreneurial spirit. The students design their own Personal Study Plan with the assistance of his/her own personal mentor. Real working life projects form the base for learning. The students may freely choose which projects to participate in. The Programme focuses on innovative business development and on supporting entrepreneurship. If the student decides to start up a business, he/she can do so as a part of the studies and receive guidance from the mentors of Laurea Business Ventures. Besides entrepreneurship, graduates also have various work opportunities in the field of international business. 

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