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:)
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