Abstracts

• Authors:
  Linda Meriluoto.
  Laurea University of Applied Sciences
  Finland
• Keywords:

Laurea SID Labs is an international research and development environment focusing on Service, Innovation and Design. It includes nine laboratories in the field of Hospitality Management, Security Management, Business Information Technology and Business Management. The laboratories are fulfilling the three main tasks of Laurea University of Applied Sciences: education, research and development and regional development by implementing Laurea’s pedagogical operation model, Learning by Development, which means development based learning.

The activity of the Laurea SID Labs is based on the R&D work in the different kind of projects carried out by the students in cooperation with the personnel in Laurea and the partner organizations. In October 2009 in the laboratories were working 24 interns from where 10 were international students. Interest groups of the environment contain e.g. companies, research centers and other higher educational institutes in Finland and abroad.    

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• Authors:
  Oksana Kupets, Jaakko Kähäri, Anna Afek.
  Laurea University of Applied Sciences
  Finland
• Keywords:

PIM 2009: Planning, marketing, implementing. Intercultural teamwork and differences in the IP: PIMteam; students’ team, interaction between 2 parties (personal experiences of both parties).

PIM as Internship and Thesis foundation: personal experiences and thesis outlook.

PIM 2010 planning: where, when, how. PIM Publication 2010.

Presentation will be done together with .

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• Authors:
  Helmut Dispert¹, Joseph Luca², Bastian Pahlke¹.
  ¹Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  ²Edith Cowan University, Australia
• Keywords: Education clearing-house, Global communication and education, international collaboration

Global communication, global research and knowledge transfer have opened new and innovative cooperative opportunities for higher education institutions. However, how can research institutions, industry, community and government quickly and easily identify innovative research projects, appropriate universities with required expertise, and students willing to undertake targeted research?
In this paper the "ACE - Academic Clearing-House for Excellence" will be presented as a new model and web portal to help promote international collaboration and global research. ACE offers industry, community groups and research students an exciting opportunity to become more innovative by collaborating with other like minded universities, and also having access to current and relevant research topics and projects.  ACE has a global perspective on research and development and its collaborative approach to education allows industry, community, government and research students to customize the development of innovative courses with a view of improving business and community performance, while at the same time enhancing the careers of early career researchers.
The model works with a group of international universities collaborating together to support research in areas of growth and need from around the world. An online application will enable members to define the following for each project:

• Description, objectives, scope, timeline, and resources available
• Type of research, such as applied, evaluation or pure research
• Required student profile and skill requirements
• Recommended course structure, including Masters, Doctoral or Undergraduate
• Funding, scholarship and sponsorship opportunities

Committee members from representative institutions in each country invite industry, community and government represents to submit ideas for research and development. They then edit and validate these, and upload them onto the main server. Client details will not be made public. Potential students and supervisors can search the database by discipline, scope, level and other criteria in order to locate appropriate projects. They then contact the committee member who would negotiate the project and research.
The application outlined in this paper will allow for discussion and development of ideas, in keeping with Web 2.0 technologies. 

¹ Helmut Dispert, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Kiel, Germany,  helmut.dispert(at)fh-kiel.de

² Joseph Luca, Dean of the Graduate Research School, Edith Cowan University, School of Communications and Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia, j.luca(at)ecu.edu.au

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