” I love doing projects You are actually making things happen while you are getting the professional skills and connections  that are needed in the field". Katja Kastman and Anna Mäkinen, students of community pedagogy

” The most exciting thing in Humak are the people. Students, lecturers and those professionals we get to know in real-life projects” Kaisa Ilo, student of community pedagogy during the Orange Storm festival in Jyväskylä

We provide participation, social wellbeing and Community. Humak is an university of applied sciences where global and social perspectives are taken as starting points in developing Finland as a fair and communal society." . We provide participation, social wellbeing and Community. We create new information, Competence and expertise in our fields.

1500 130 50 Students Experts Ongoing development projects 10 1998 485 843 Established in TOP 10 higher education institute (UAS/University) hits in www.humak.fi in 2016 2530 5 1 ECTS from Open UAS in 2015 TOP 5 UAS in attractiveness factor TOP 1 in Turku region (6 UAS/Universities)

” Humak operates nationwide. Profile Development through partnership Our regional units are located in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area (Helsinki, Kauniainen, Nurmijärvi), Turku, Jyväskylä and Kuopio. In addition, we have RDI offices in Tampere, Imatra, Joensuu and Kemi. ” Profile Development through partnership - Provider of social and cultural innovations

” TOWARDS A FAIR AND COMMUNAL FINLAND Values We respect each other Humak is an international and social university, engaged in the development of a fair and communal Finland. We provide participation, social wellbeing and community. We create new information, competence and expertise in our fields. ” Values We respect each other We are open We succeed together We are brave in the way we renew and are renewed

HUMAK´S STRENGTHS - Youth work and communality - Interpreting and linguistic accessibility - Organisation work, work communities and integration - Cultural management and conveyance Degree Programmes Community Educator (Bachelor & Master) Cultural Manager (Bachelor & Master) Interpreter (Bachelor & Master) Strong results in Open UAS services ” New, emerging sectors: new participants, new communality, communication expertise, human rights and equality

” CIVIC ACTIVITIES AND YOUTH WORK Community educators are the specialists in functional and communal methods in work communities. The students can choose to became specialists in youth work field or in organizational work in work communities. . ” Humak has the best networks of civic activities and youth work. We are the biggest educator in Finland as well as in Europe in Youth Work.

CULTURAL MANAGEMENT Join the crew of professionals: cultural producers and managers, creative entrepreneurs. ” Our students work and study in real-life projects from the beginning of their studies. They can build networks that help them in their working life.

CULTURAL MANAGEMENT COURSES IN ENGLISH Cultural Management courses in English are designed for Erasmus Exchange students who would like learn more about professions and skills in the arts and financing in the cultural management and production. The course includes multidisciplinary approach into culture and arts management.

INTERPRETER Do you want to be an expert of linguistic accessibility and human interaction? The interpreter´s job is varied and versatile. Each situation of interaction is different and the role of an interpreter is changing along with it. ” There are many possibilities. You can specialize or become a multi-expert.

ADVENTURE SPORTS Our popular ERASMUS Exchange course is designed for students who would like to learn more about experience-based learning and adventure sports activities. The course starts from the novice level of skill instruction in hiking, climbing and kayaking ” Training adventure sports skills in theory and practice.

WORK-LIFE EXPERIENCE AND PROJECTS 50 + 50 MODEL COACHING PEDAGOGY CAMPUS + RDI-CENTRES WORK-LIFE EXPERIENCE AND PROJECTS Turku, Logomo & Paasikivi-Opisto

Humak in national rankings 2016 TOP 5 UAS in attractiveness factor TOP 10 higher education institute (UAS/University) TOP 1 in Turku region (6 UAS/Universities) 1500 students, 130 experts and staff *First place position in student application/ studying place

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