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Laurea University of Applied Sciences operates in Uusimaa region, Finland at six different campuses. There are about 9,900 students, 660 staff members and 34,700 alumni in our community. Laurea offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees in both English and Finnish. In 2024, Laurea provided degrees in the following fields: Business Information Technology and Developing Services, Business Information Technology and Cyber Security, Business Management, Safety, Security, and Risk Management, Nursing, Social Services, Hospitality Management and Service Design, Service Innovation and Design, Global Health and Crisis Management, and Leading Transformational Change. Laurea engages in research, development, and innovation across several areas, including entrepreneurship, pedagogy and co-creation, as well as digitalisation and information management in society. In 2024, the research programmes focused on coherent security, sustainable and versatile social and health care, and the service business and circular economy.
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The Audiovisual Center (AVC) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is a centre of expertise on video in education. It produces video, such as educational videos, webinars, live streams and podcasts and provides policymakers, teachers and supporting staff with advice on the use of audiovisual media in education with a pedagogical, technical and organisational point of view.
The NewMedia Centre (NMC) is a media production and expertise centre for education and research. The centre creates video (in a green screen studio and on location), livestreams, animations, infographics, augmented/virtual reality and is responsible for the university’s lecture capture. NMC experiments, together with lecturers and students, with media technology in education, such as holography, 3D models, AR, 360 video and audio and much more.
Since 1958, the Institut des Hautes Études des Communications Sociales (IHECS) has been organising master degrees in the field of journalism and communication by articulating media theory and practice. Anchored in the present and turned towards the future, the school makes sure to adjust its teaching to the logics and professional practices thanks to an original dynamic, centred around the pedagogy of the project. This is reflected in particular by the engagement of recognised and qualified professionals and by the significant resources invested each year in high-performance and technologically advanced media and IT equipment.