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We’re united by the idea of saving our future with real actions. Welcome to HAMK, you’re here to make a change.
Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) is a learning and research community of people driven to make a positive impact on the world.
We are a team of approximately 9,000 people shaping the future of bioeconomy, health, education, business, design, and technology. Our presence spans across seven campuses, online, and internationally. There are more than 850 international students from over 70 different countries. We provide exceptional tools and environments to our students, staff, and partners to work and collaborate together to accomplish useful actions.
HAMK’s roots stretch back to 1840, when agricultural education began at the Mustiala Campus. The Evo Campus, meanwhile, is Finland’s oldest school of forestry. It was founded in 1862 and is still operating today, surrounded by its 1800 hectares of observational forest. At the end of the 19th century, Fredrika Wetterhoff founded in Hämeenlinna a handicrafts school which taught weaving and sewing and trained teachers. Horticulture education, meanwhile, began in the manor surroundings of the Lepaa Campus in 1910. Later on, in the 1950s and the following decades, the technical, healthcare and commercial institutes in Forssa, Hämeenlinna, Riihimäki and Valkeakoski were established to meet the region’s educational needs. The School of Professional Teacher Education is rooted in the earlier tradition of teacher education in Hämeenlinna that started in 1959.
Nowadays, HAMK offers degree programmes in its schools of bioeconomy, wellbeing and entrepreneurship, business and technology, and professional teacher education. In addition, HAMK offers continuing education and further education. As Finland is undeniably well known for its strengths in the field of education, here at HAMK we offer educational products also for the global market.
HAMK has four research units: HAMK Bio, HAMK Edu, HAMK Smart and HAMK Tech. These carry out applied research, support teaching and promote regional impact according to their focus areas. Concrete examples of the work in the research units are assignments commissioned by companies and the public sector as well as various research, development and innovation (RDI) projects. Around 130 RDI projects are carried out at HAMK each year, and around one fifth of these are international in scope.
In the HAMK Edu Research Unit’s Lifelong career guidance research area, we focus particularly on the diverse needs of lifelong guidance. The need for guidance lasts a lifetime. The aim should therefore be a continuation of career guidance in which counselling is available to all those who need it, regardless of whether they are within the scope of education, employment or outside the world of work. The field of career guidance is constantly changing. In the Lifelong career guidance research area, the most current questions and themes of career guidance are discussed, as well as what career guidance should focus on, and what should be developed in the near future.
HAMK’s staff and tutors assist and guide you with the accommodation process:
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HAMK library is open for all, and our printed collections are for the use of all clients. Our online library HAMK Finna offers an easy access to all material in library collections. The use of e-collections requires a HAMK user id. Visitors may access e-collections inside the library, with few exceptions.
If the material needed is not already in HAMK library collections, it can be bought or borrowed from elsewhere. For people with reading disabilities, we offer access to Celia services.
The library supports HAMK learning, teaching, and research, with the collections focusing on HAMK fields of study. The physical collections are located in Hämeenlinna university centre and six campus libraries. Printed books can be ordered from other HAMK campuses free of charge.
Information Management Services of Häme University of Applied Sciences produce and maintain IT and telecommunication services for HAMK and Häme Vocational Institute.
When you join as a student, you will receive a personal user ID, with which you can log in to HAMK computers and many different systems. We are in charge of the IT infrastructure and all of its services, including the functionality of equipment and systems, and we provide training in their use, as well as problem-solving advice.
Student Health Care services are provided by the Finnish Student Health Service (YTHS).
The FSHS services are set out in the Act on healthcare for students in higher education and in the Guide on Student Healthcare published by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. The guide specifies, among other things, the content of health and medical services.
The FSHS responsibility areas are:
Hämeenlinna campus:
Hämeenlinna is history, industry and outdoors.
Hämeenlinna is the oldest inland town in Finland and it was founded in 1639. However, Hämeenlinna was already a trading place a hundred years before it became a town. Construction of the medieval castle started in the 13th century. The castle is the symbol of the town and a landmark in the history of buildings. History also comes alive in the town centre, which has a church from the 18th century and buildings from various periods in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Riihimäki campus:
Riihimäki has a history of railways and glass-making.
Riihimäki is a small town in the junction of main motorways and railway lines.
Riihimäki is a town with 28,800 inhabitants. It lies at the junction of southern Finland’s main motorways and railway lines. The town is located about 70 km from Helsinki and the airport, and it takes only 45 minutes to reach Riihimäki from anywhere in the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Valkeakoski campus:
Valkeakoski is a town in the southern part of Finland that offers a variety of services and free time activities.
For a town of just over 21,000 inhabitants, Valkeakoski is surprisingly diverse. Here, it is possible to do sports of many types and also to watch sports at national level, eat in ethnic restaurants, go to movies or theatre, party, enjoy the beautiful nature and of course participate in high level education.
Forssa campus:
Forssa is a commercial centre and a sporting town.
Forssa is the administrational, commercial and service centre of its economic area.
Forssa is situated in the southwest of central Finland, which is the most populated area of Finland, only one hour from Helsinki, Tampere and Turku. There are about 17,500 inhabitants in Forssa, and together with the surrounding municipalities Humppila, Jokioinen, Tammela and Ypäjä 35,000 inhabitants.
Häme University of Applied Sciences offers a broad selection of sport activities on all campuses to its students.
Sports pass for the Sports Arena of Hämeenlinna’s University Centre
When using the Sports services in Hämeenlinna University Centre’s Sports Arena, students need a Sports pass. After buying the sports pass, students have the right to use the Sports Arena. There’s a good quality gym, which is open with the Sports pass every day at 6.00 – 22.00. Sports pass also entitles students to join all the fitness classes and ball sports in Arena.
In other Hamk locations students are free to use all the sports services provided by HAMK without any costs (excluding swimming halls).
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