About Laurea UAS & World Design Capital Area Espoo
March 9th 2010. Filed under: .
Laurea University of Applied Sciences operates in the Helsinki metropolitan area, one of the most competitive regions in the world. Laurea is one of the largest Universities of Applied Sciences in Finland with 8000 students on seven campuses. The degree programme of Service Innovation and Design is offered on Laurea’s campus in Leppävaara, Espoo.
Next to the capital Helsinki and most international companies in Finland – many of them information intensive service businesses – the city of Espoo is a modern, fast developing centre of business. The immediate vicinity of Laurea Leppävaara has recently undergone a remarkable change and still is. Leppävaara is being designed to become a significant cultural, commercial and welfare centre, self-sufficient in terms of services, entertainment and shopping. All this is in favour of Laurea Leppävaara, in terms of potential to effectively and proactively sense and reflect the changes in surrounding environment.
For more information please visit:
WDC Helsinki 2012
Visit Espoo
Espoo tourism guide
The City of Espoo
Wikipedia article on Greater Helsinki
The Region of Helsinki
Linköping is situated about 200 km southwest of Sweden’s capital Stockholm. Linköping is Sweden’s seventh largest city with about 100 000 inhabitants and the municipality is Sweden’s fifth largest with its 140 000 inhabitants. The city motto is “Where ideas become reality” and refers to the mixture of high-tech industries and the university located in Linköping.
Linköping traces its history back to the 11th century, when the fundaments of what later became Linköping Cathedral were laid. As is common throughout history, Linköping as a religious center also became a center for learning, and had many of Sweden’s earliest educational centers.
The modern city has grown vastly since the Second World War; initially due to being the home of the aviation branch of SAAB. In 1975 the technical college became a full university, which brought a swing in the local job market towards high-technology companies which have been dominant since the 1980’s. Together with neighbouring town Norrköping, Linköping markets itself as “Twin cities of Sweden”.
Linköping University has about 26 000 students, is located on four campuses: Campus Valla and the University hospital in Linköping, Campus Norrköping in Norrköping, and Carl Malmsten School of furniture design is located at Lidingö in Stockholm.
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