Highlighting Success: HEIComp’s Latin American Projects and Methodologies
In the fall of 2024, an international project was undertaken by a project team consisting of business students from Laurea University of Applied Sciences (Laurea) in Finland, along with exchange students. The goal of the project was to create an e-book aimed at spreading knowledge about Working Life Connected (WLC). This e-book was published in […]
HEIComp at UNAE: A different methodology of teaching and learning to get out of the comfort zone
The HEIComp project is inspired by the Working Life Connected (WLC) methodology, which encourages student participation in the development of solutions to real challenges in real organizations during their studies. This methodology affirms the role of students as protagonists in the process and modifies the role of teachers by turning them into “mentors”. This methodology […]
Revolutionizing Higher Education: The Developing a Study Model in the HEIComp Project – A Student’s Perspective on Bridging the Gap between Student Competences
In the blog, we will discuss a project that aims to modernize the educational system inLatin American educational institutions to prepare students for professional life, as well asstudents’ attitudes towards this study model. We will talk about the Learning by Developing (LbD) a Study Model, developed at theLaurea University of Applied Sciences. Students studying under […]
Designing and Launching a New Mobile Application for Latin American students
This autumn I have been part of Laurea University of Applied Sciences student project team where we have been designing a new learning mobile application (later app) for Latin American universities. Laurea student project team consists of fifteen students: twelve Finnish students and three Mexican exchange students. We are collaborating with Brasilian Instituto Nacional de […]
Learning by developing: experiences of UNAE coaches and students
This text is about the experience in the HEIComp project from the perspective of teachers and students of the Universidad Autónoma de Encarnación (Paraguay), examining positive aspects, challenges and progress in the collaboration with the partners involved, which are “Lovera Farmer”, “Ka’a Yara” and “Hospital Oncológico de día Lazos del Sur”. First of all, it […]
Working Life Connected Strategy Makes Universities Outperform the More Traditional Ones
Bridging the Working Life needs with Academic studies is becoming a skillset that will separate innovative Universities from the more traditional ones. It will build tangible competitive edge for the forerunners! We, The Laurea University of Applied Sciences team, later Laurea UAS (Finland), are working together with 3 Brazilian and 2 Paraguayan Forerunner Universities in […]
