Promoter UAS's introduction
Savonia is one of the biggest and versatile universities of applied sciences in Finland. It offers education in 6 different fields in four campuses, two in Kuopio, one in Varkaus and one in Iisalmi. At these campuses there are almost 6000 students and 600 employees. Savonia does collaboration in research and development with a lot of companies in the surrounding area and the education is work life oriented. Savonia’s goal is to be the most impressive university of applied sciences by 2020.
Lapland University of Applied Sciences is the northernmost UAS in Finland and in the EU focusing on higher education and research, development and innovations.Lapland UAS offers high quality education in modern campuses with the state of the art study facilities and learning environments. Lapland UAS produces experts in development tasks of working life.Lapland is well connected, modern place that offers huge possibilities for the future professionals! Success in Arctic conditions and utilising the conditions are at the core. We have the Northern Factor.
Lahti University of Applied Sciences and Saimaa University of Applied Sciences did merged end of the year of 2019, establishing a completely new institution: the LAB University of Applied Sciences. LAB started its operation on 1 January 2020. LAB is a higher education institution focusing on innovation, business and industry. It operates in Lahti and Lappeenranta and also provides education online. The strengths of this higher education institution specializing in innovation include the circular economy, design, the commercialization of innovations and service innovations for health and well-being. LAB has over 8 500 students, making it the sixth largest university of applied sciences in Finland.
