The first Build Your Network, Build Your Career alumni event, organised collaboratively by five universities of applied sciences in the Helsinki metropolitan area, gathered around 120 international alumni to network and gain career insights.
There were really no other options. A burning passion for grocery stores runs in the family—his grandfather was a shopkeeper, and later, so was his father. Alumnus of the Year Mikko Länsiluoto, Bachelor of Business Administration, is the third generation to follow the same path and considers entrepreneurship to be his greatest strength.
Nina Brännkärr-Friberg is the engineering alumna whose life took a different direction. As Alumna of the Year 2023 at Arcada University of Applied Sciences, she wants to remind everyone that things don't always go as planned, but it usually turns out fine anyway.
The title of my thesis is “European Convention on Human Rights and the Protection of Private Life, Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in a Digital Age”.
This famous line written by J.R.R. Tolkien, which appears in the first novel in the Lord of The Ring series, has been a way of encapsulating the idea of surrendering to your wanderlust. However, it can be argued that the true meaning of the line is that all who wander without an aim are lost.
This year, Arcada University of Applied Sciences has for the first time named the Alumni of the Year. The award is given to a person who is an inspiration to today's students and who demonstrates a broad commitment to Arcada. The 2022 Alumna of the Year is Johanna Stenback.
In the first week of June, Gustav Kvikant starts swimming from Stockholm with the goal of reaching Helsinki about a month later. The Arcada alumnus is on a mission to raise awareness of the many problems the Baltic Sea faces and will be the first ever to swim this distance.
The impact of social media marketing and platform-based economies on the Finnish food industry was the focus of my research paper. This issue appealed to me because I’ve worked in the restaurant industry in Finland on several occasions.
