Building a sustainable future together
Together with our partners, we will create new technological solutions, promote the business of circular economy, develop the low-carbon economic structure of regions and promote the well-being of people and the environment.
Through close cooperation with business and industry, we will link the needs of society to our educational content, pilot the most potential new operating methods for further processing and channel our expertise to companies. Through our RDI activities and student involvement, we will produce solutions to sustainability challenges and promote sustainable development in cooperation with the higher education community, business life and the public sector.
We will use the jointly developed criteria for developing the sustainability and responsibility of RDI. We will develop our operations so that one of the reasons we are a sought-after partner and employer is our sustainable and responsible RDI that is ecologically, socially, culturally and economically sustainable.
Sustainability and responsibility are cross-cutting themes in all the key competences of our RDI activities:
‣ Circular economy – We will enable a national transition towards a carbon-neutral circular economy
‣ Design – Our solutions will support new value creation for business
‣ Innovations – We will make new openings worth discussing
‣ Health – We will develop innovative and impressive solutions to promote overall well-being
Sustainability with the campus cities
‣ We share the objectives of a clean environment and a sustainable future with our campus cities, Lahti and Lappeenranta. In the European Green Capital Lahti, we promote targets such as circular economy and the accessibility of recreational areas and a nature-first approach to entrepreneurship.
‣ In the European Green Leaf city Lappeenranta, we have worked with companies to develop methods for managing energy production and consumption as part of the Greenreality network.
‣ To support companies’ efforts towards sustainability, we also offer the competence of our students in the form of exercises, projects and theses.
‣ With local innovations that promote sustainability in everyday life and business, we contribute to solving global sustainability challenges. As part of our RDI activities, we organise open seminars on circular economy and responsibility themes.
Student Union KOE
The student union of LAB University of Applied Sciences, KOE, takes responsibility into account in its operations and promotes sustainable development as part of the LAB community. KOE is involved in LAB's quality and sustainability work steering group and organizes annual sustainability days on campuses.
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