Excellence Week 2016

Welcome to TUAS Excellence Week 2016 TUAS Excellence Week of Health Promotion, Increasing inclusion and Renewing social and health care services April 4–8, 2016 in Turku, Finland

TUAS Excellence Week will give you the opportunity to teach in a different environment, network, exchange information and plan future cooperation with our teachers, staff and RDI experts. You will get to explore the beautiful nature and city of Turku.

Welcome to TUAS Excellence Week in April 4–8, 2016! During the week guest lecturers will be integrated in regular classes and for the administrative staff and RDI experts, workshops and other meetings will be offered. Feel free to send us your proposal for a lecture, workshop or case study presentation with our students and staff. In addition, please pass this invitation to your colleagues who could be interested in joining the event.

Below you will find the focus areas of the week.

HEALTH PROMOTION Changes in the demography, ways of life and environment create novel challenges for health promotion. In cooperation with different actors, TUAS’ research, development and teaching activities develop innovative models of operation and practices to promote people’s mental, physical and social health. According to the national focus areas, the targets are ways of life and the healthiness of different environments, preventing accidents and infectious diseases and decreasing the differences in health between demographic groups.

RENEWING SOCIAL AND HEALTH CARE SERVICES With active research and development activities, TUAS participates in the development of the local, regional and national service network in social and health care together with cooperation partners in working life. We develop and implement new, client-oriented methods and digital services together with municipalities, governmental organisations, hospital districts, organisations and businesses. We also develop the competence of organisations and their personnel.

INCREASING INCLUSION Increasing inclusion is one of the focus areas of TUAS’ strategy. Inclusion is an essential means to prevent social exclusion.

Being included in a society means that everyone has an opportunity for health, education, work, livelihood, apartment and social relationships.

Participation is one route to experience inclusion. At TUAS, we work with organisations and the third sector to increase KOKO KOULUTUSTARJONTAMME OSOITTEESSA: the www.turkuamk.fi/taykkari inclusion and well-being of individuals and groups with different measures. We aim to increase the well-being of children, youths, adults and seniors.

#ExcellenceInAction Turku University of Applied Sciences is an inspiring community of 10,000 members - an innovative and multidisciplinary higher education institution, which creates international competitiveness and well-being for Southwest Finland. Our graduates are practice-oriented professionals with top competencies. #Innopeda is a learning method developed at TUAS. It is based on experimenting, sharing know-how and combining different approaches.

With Innopeda we successfully connect teaching, research and development activities, internationality and co-operation with working life.

More information: Turku University of Applied Sciences – Faculty of Health and Well-being Hanna Peussa, International Coordinator Email: hanna.peussa@turkuamk.fi Tel: +358 40 3550 421 Location: Ruiskatu campus, Turku / Salo campus, Salo

Registration and more detailed programme at: www.tuas.fi/internationalweek