SKAALA - Scalable competences through educational ecosystem for the Finnish Export Industry

Quality of Finnish education system is well known and highly appreciated around the world. Higher education and Finnish universities have a significant role also in updating and upgrading competences in Finnish Industry. Finnish economy relies strongly on exports and therefore industry producing products and services for experts plays a critical role.



For the educational sector, which is funded mainly by the taxpayers and the export industry companies, it means a huge challenge: how to provide the right type of content, provide attracting and agile methods and at the same time keep up with the pace of industry and timeframes related to company needs.



The focus in Skaala project is to develop an educational model, which enables providing new content and competences for the export industry and technology companies in Finland. The location of the company headquarter or site will not be a barrier for getting the high quality education. The educational model is based on networked ecosystem approach including Research University and five Universities of Applied Sciences. This type of combination is a unique not only in Finland but also in Europe.



Skaala project consortium is formed by LAB University of Applied Sciences, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Centria University of Applied Sciences and Oulu University of Applied Sciences.