Thank you!

So now the International Week 2014 has ended. Thank you for your participation and having this journey with us! This whole project was a real learning experience to all of us in the organizing team in things that we can do better and in things that we did really well. Mainly the multi-cultural event made us to think outside the box and to go out of our comfort zone. It was indeed a challenge!

We really appreciate you spending the week with us and learning about the behind the scenes -part of it. We really learned team work and event organizing as well as project management which is our major. We especially loved the cultural café each day and how different cultures were shown during the week.

We hope you enjoyed your stay and have warm memories about your stay in Finland.



If you have any comments or questions to us, just leave a comment :)

Yours,
the organizing student team

Café español

Now starting at the third floor spanish coffee break! Welcome :)

Chillax

Is you life constant running and hurrying and sometimes you feel like you don't have any time for yourself? Come to Chillax room to B202 to take a break and have time just for you and your thoughts. Our wellness at work course's International group has arranged a peaceful and relaxing space for today. Please join and have a warming cup of tea with us or read some inspiring thoughts of Paolo Coelho or some happy quotes.

For your own wellbeing, chillax!

International Livingroom

Hello everyone!

Tomorrow is going to be the last internationally themed coffee break at the 3rd floor Olohuone and the theme country is going to be Spain! We have been able to enjoy from Taiwanese bubble tea, Hungarian sandwiches and a British/Belgium snacks during our coffee breaks this week, so if you still haven't visited our third floor International Livingroom please join us tomorrow at 2pm.

The Future is Ours

On monday the theme of the week "The Future is Ours" was the main focus in the keynote speach and at the panel discussion. Keynote speaker Ilkka O. Lavas held a presentation about Glocal Business meaning the global and local perspectives on international business. During the speach he explained about his business backround and thoughts about the globalization and the term glocal business. He pointed out the importance of understanding other cultures when doing business especially globally, this empasizes in future.

"Sharing, saving, teaching, decisions, values and technology" these words came to panelists minds when thinking about the theme. The panelist discussed about the subject and how it has affected on their own lifes. Here is some thoughts they had from what globalization means to them: "To be able to work in an international environment and learn from those new relationships and connections" "Online shopping and social media, do we lose the sense of community and become less social. "Globalization can make cultures and traditions disappear" 
"Do you want to force tradition or accept globalization?"

The panelist experienced that after spending a long period abroad they have gain more appreciation for their own culture and better perspective to live itself.


Go check out the video "The Future is Ours" on YouTube!

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Welcome!

Laurea Tikkurila's International Week 2014 is now started. We are super excited about this week and hoping you all can join us and make it the best International Week ever!
In the lobby we have our registration open and some of our team members welcoming the visitors to our school. Also there can be found our Wall of Fame where you can leave your own handprint and for the rest of the week this work of art will be visible to the audiance.

So today's schedule starts at 12.30 with the Opening seremony. After that there will be International weeks Keynote speaker's speach by Ilkka O. Lavas, a publisher of City-Magazine who was kind enough to join us at the last minute. His presentation "Go out there to see and learn: Understanfding Global Business" will be held in the Big auditorium at 13.00-13.45 and everyone is welcomed to listen!

14.45-16.00 we are hosting a panel discussion about the week's theme "The Future is Ours!" where there is going to be international guests, alumnies and students as panelists you can also participate the discussion via Twitter with #tikkurilaIW14. After the Panel Discussion there is Partner's Rooftop party at the fifth floor where we introduce some Finnish tastes.

Come and join the international atmosphere!

The program updated!

Due to a few last minute changes, the program of the week has been updated earlier today. Here's the latest version, check it out!

See you all on Monday!

IW 2014 - Movie Night

LAUREAMKO Tikkurila proudly presents  -

The Grand Premiere of the monthly movie night!

The first movie night is held on Tuesday, March 4th, during the International Week 2014 and it's open for everyone. Event is also free of charge! 

LAUREAMKO Tikkurila's local unit actors chose the movie WALL•E produced by Walt Disney Pictures. WALL•E has won several different prizes, one of them being the Golden Globe for the best animated film. 

 Official Trailer

Apart from being amazing and award-winning animation, WALL•E  also handles great amount of issues that the Earth is fighting with right now. Since the theme for the International Week 2014 is "The Future is Ours", we see WALL•E as an eye-opening experience. We hope that WALL•E, even being an entertaining movie, will inspire the viewers to make a difference and help our planet to have a wonderful future. 

The movie will be shown in English, with Finnish subtitles in the Big Auditorium in the first floor. Show time between 16:30-19:30. 

Don't forget to join us on Facebook (opens in new window) HERE

See you all at the movies!   

Coming up...

Tuesday March 4th at 4:30 pm till 7:30 pm.



LaureAMKO and Tikkurila International Week 2014 represents The Movie Night! The event is free and open for all students, IW guests and lecturers. Come and enjoy the movie, great company and of course some popcorn!

Stay tuned for more info! 

And here it comes - The Program for the International Week 2014

Click on the image for a better look! Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

The nations respond for Booth's article!

Hei hei!! :)
Come see the second part of the grim truth behind the 'Scandinavian miracle'. When the writer Michael Booth wrote the article, he never expected any response for it. Now here are the five Scandinavians, this is what they have to say. Check this out yourself at the link below!


'The grim truth behind the Scandinavian miracle' – the Nations Respond

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/05/scandinavian-miracle-denmark-finland-iceland-norway-sweden

Marketing IW14

Hey everyone! We are just about a week away from the big moment! Are you getting as excited as we are? 

Remember when we wrote about how we were going to spread a poster all around school as a marketing tool for our students and faculty? Well, it has finally been done! What do you think?

So here it is in all its gorgeousness! We used Laurea Tikkurila's colors, turquoise, and Laurea's colors, white and pink. It certainly is something that will catch your eye while walking down the hallways of our school. We decided to design it with bold colors instead of white, because it will now it will stand out and get everyone's attention. Yesterday afternoon we went through the school and put the posters up on walls, bulletin boards and elevators. Here you can see what it really looks like:

In the elevator

In our main hall, between the two elevators

Getting closer, can't wait! See you soon!

- Internal marketing team

Nano Lab Finland

On Thursday the 6th the International Week's guest will have the opportunity to visit Nano Lab Finland. We, the organizing team, went to check it out beforehand. This is what's in store for our guests..

Big business from small technology

Nano Lab Finland showroom brings together Finnish companies who develop and use nano- and micro-technologies in their products and services. The visit introduces you to the up-to-date technologies and solutions that are used, for example, in healthcare and manufacturing. A few of these solutions are also used in Laurea Tikkurila's unit. For example, our dining room is a very noisy place. It has very poor acoustics. In co-operation with the Nano Lab, our dining room chairs got new "felt boots" to the legs. This really improved the noisiness of the room. It didn't, however, completely solve the problem, so there might be new ideas in store for later!

Go check out what Nano Lab is all about! 

Scandinavian miracle? Let Michael Booth tell you the truth

For the past few years people are fascinated by the miracle of the Scandinavian country. We all heard about the Denmark's happiness, Sweden's gender equality, Finland's schools, Norway's oil wealth, and Iceland's bounce-back from the financial abyss. We are all fond of positive Nordic news stories for many years; however, in this article Booth had unveiled the dark side of the Scandinavian miracle. Check out this article and be prepared to have your jaw dropped to the ground. What do you think? Come to Finland and see for yourself! :)



The Dark Lands: the grim truth behind the 'Scandinavian miracle'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/scandinavian-miracle-brutal-truth-denmark-norway-sweden

Internal Marketing in a Nutshell

Internal marketing is basically a process happening inside a company. The main intention of internal marketing is to make the employees feel like they are customers. (Friesner).

Internal marketing should be as aggressive as marketing to "regular" customers. The message promised in a marketing campaign should be delivered, otherwise the whole campaign will fail. The employees should always be informed about the goal. (Alam).

We made this cool chart which simply explains what internal marketing is.

So this pretty much sums internal marketing up. This is what our internal marketing team is doing in Laurea Tikkurila! Our campus is like a company, our students and faculty being the employees that we need to treat like customers. Our main goal is to get our students and faculty to participate lectures and happenings going on during the week. We need to make everyone here as inspired and interested in this week that we, the organizing team, are! What do you think is the most important thing we need to remeber while marketing the event at our school!

Stay tuned, the final schedule is coming up at the end of this week!

Sources:

Alam, Shiful. Internal Marketing: The Way of Delivering Better Service. 2.11.2014

Friesner, Tim. Internal Marketing. 2.11.2014.

Warming up for exchange students!

This week in Laurea Tikkurila!

The exchange students had a little warm up event for presenting their home country and universities to local students.

On the second floor lobby, exchange students from all over the world arranged their own tables to introduce their home universities and countries to students in Laurea,
encouraging them to explore the world outside of campus!


Also, some international organizations introduced all kinds of volunteering, internships and study opportunities abroad.




Europe, Asia, Africa... ...
The future is ours and there are so much more waiting for us to explore!

ISIC provide various benefits for students going abroad

international organization work locally with students 

International Week 2014 is all about encounters and exploring the future with the growing trend of globalization. The world is full of both changes and opportunities for us.

Join us in International Week 2014 to meet new people from different professions and cultural backgrounds and get inspired!

Keep your pace and follow us on the Facebook page and attend the event on Facebook!

Can't wait to meet you!
The exchange student team

First introduction: LAUREAMKO workshop

One of the International Week's workshops is Laurea's student union LAUREAMKOs workshop about their international activities and especially international tutoring. So here is a little introduction about LAUREAMKO and international tutoring!

What is LAUREAMKO?

The Student Union is part of the University of Applied Sciences and its mission is to act on behalf of the students and as their representative in the matters inside the school. In short, when a decision is made, the Student Union is asked. LAUREAMKO protects the rights of the students, organizes different events and provides student cards and student discounts. 

A tutor?

Tutor, a peer support, is usually an older, second year Laurea student.  One of the most important tasks for tutors is to guide the new students to world of studies, school and practical matters of their study programme. Tutors familiarize the new students also into the lively student life and organize the Freshers event for the students together with other actors! 

International tutors can either be with the exchange students arriving to different units or with the english degree students. 


Find more information from LAUREAMKO and of course, visit the workshop to meet the awesome people from the student union who organize tutoring!

International Week 2014 schedule

HOT NEWS!!!

The outline for the International Week 2014 schedule is released!

Click on the picture to see bigger one on Facebook!

Here is the outline of the event. More details will be coming soon in the following weeks including the introductions on all the speeches and activities

But first, check out the schedule and clear yours to join us!






*we are deeply sorry to inform that due to the restriction on the events, evening events (except movie night) are only open to visitors to Laurea Tikkurila International Week 2014for the moment.

Stay tune and follow more about the events with us:)
The social media group

Hei hei! Nice to see you on Facebook :) - External Marketing for the International Week

Hi there! We are SOME team in the Laurea Tikkurila's International Week 2014. We are Amy, Anni, Mei and Sini. 

Here come the exchange students for the spring and the exchange student team!

Welcome and welcome back!!

We are the exchange student team for the International Week 2014!

The group members are Mei,Taija and Amy, also working together with all the exchange students in Tikkurila to organize some exciting cultural events throughout the whole week.

After a week of orientation and welcoming events, the unit had already warmly welcomed all the exchange students to join the big family of Laurea Tikkurila!

Students from all over the world are now ready to start their new chapters of lives together and inspired the local students as well. We can always learn so much from others through various interactions both within and out of the classes! Last semester, students from Taiwan, Spain, Estonia, Germany, Japan and more had amazed everyone with their stunning workshops, presentations, cultural tents, dancing that had brought their own cultures alive for all the students to enjoy.

During the one week event, exchange students had introduced us to their cultures through different activities and presentations!

Students from Taiwan presenting their popular drink with the help of Finnish student 

Through the eyes of locals, students had the chance to travel around the world simply by visiting the campus with joy, what’s the better way to learn others’ cultures than that?

This year, the international week will bring the event to the next level. With exchange students from different coners of the globe, we will be organizing events with more cultural diversity all together! The exchange students will not only invite local students to join their cultural events but are also eager to learn more about Finnish cultures themselves. Movie night, cultural tents, panels, workshops..... We had even more ideas ready to present!!

So, Come and join us at Laurea Tikkurila International Week 2014!

Be ready to be amazed and inspired by the cultural sparks!

For more details and exciting news, the exchange students group will be updating news during the following weeks EVERYWHERE!!!

Make sure you won’t miss any juicy news and events, 

follow us on our Facebook page and attend the event on Facebook! 

See you soon:)
Mei,Taija, Amy

No time to freeze

Dear reader,

Despite the freezing cold weather the organizing team is on fire! The schedule for the International Week was published on Tuesday on our Facebook page, check it out! It will also be on the web page and in the school before and during the week. As you can see from the schedule there will be a different nationality for each day that will hopefully be present during each day’s lunch. So if you can’t make it to the lectures or workshops at least you can enjoy the atmosphere from the food!

Tomorrow morning the team will have a follow-up meeting where we will be discussing to-do -lists and everything that's going on and somehow connected to the IW14. And I’m sure that our lecturer Elina W. mixes our heads even more! A lot to think and to do is definitely what the weekend will be all about. 

If you haven’t already joined our Facebook event, do it now! And stay tuned, pictures and videos are coming..can’t wait!

Coming up with the marketing plan

Okay so, the internal marketing team is here again! This time we are working on our marketing plan for this event. The idea is to figure out what we do, when we do it, who does it and how we pull it off. To start off, we have brainstormed some ideas of how to market the International Week in our school. We will publish the IW14 schedule (when it’s ready) on our school’s intra for faculty and students, on Laurea Tikkurila’s website and Facebook page and on the International Week’s Facebook and event pages. Of course you will see the schedule here on the blog as well. We will also design a poster for IW14 and after printing it out, spread it all over the school. One good place for a poster is on the elevator – you have to stand there anyway, why not make use of that time! The posters will be spread around the school a week or two prior to the event.

Don't forget to like our Facebook page and attend the event on Facebook! 

Until next time,

Elina, Mikko and Annina

This is our cafeteria and one of the places where we will be spreading posters!

Hello and welcome!

This blog is run by eight beautiful students: Mei, Elina, Amy, Annina, Sini, Taija, Anni and Mikko (that's me). We study at Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Tikkurila (Vantaa, Finland) and we are organizing our school's International Week. We write about this process on this blog so if you're attending (or just like to stalk people) please follow this blog!

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