Open Access (OA) is becoming a norm in scholarly publishing. What does the funding organisations require? Has Hanken reached its goal for OA publishing? Open access as a new criteria for the publication awards at Hanken.
Students from all higher education institutions in Vaasa participate in opening the academic year 2017-2018 at Vaasa square on 7 September at 2 p.m. Hanken students in Vaasa are warmly invited to take part in this event!
Hanken renews the admission to the BSc programme in 2018 and is the first Finnish university to admit students based on the Swedish national university aptitude test (Swe. Högskoleprovet).
Kristina Heinonen, Professor of Service and Relationship Marketing, will be a visiting researcher at University of Massachusetts Boston, USA during spring 2018.
Minister of Education Sanni Grahn-Laasonen has appointed Anne Brunila, Professor of Practice at Hanken, as Chair of a panel that will try to envisage the ever-changing needs within education.
Ambassador Elisabeth Kehrer and Commercial Counsellor Albrecht Zimburg from the Austrian Embassy in Stockholm visited Hanken on 16 August 2017 together with Markus Myllymäki.
The Letterstedt association aims at promoting the Nordic community in the fields of industry, science and art. The deadline for applying for grants is 15 September 2017.
The registration for Hanken Open University courses started on 9 August and attracted great interest. The Fast track-study places were quickly filled. The Fast track gives admittance to Hanken based on good study results, without an entrance test.
The Hanken faculty (incl. doctoral students) and staff from both Helsinki and Vaasa are warmly welcome to kick off the upcoming academic year 2017-2018 on 29 August 2017 at 3-5.15 p.m. in Helsinki.
The main entrance to Hanken in Helsinki is being renovated. The work has been delayed and will be finished by 18 August. Until then the main entrance is not in use but you can enter the building through the door on Runeberginkatu.
Paul Taimitarha is the new ombudsman for Hanken Support Foundation. He is a Hanken Alumni and has been chair for both the Alumni Council and the Student Union Support Foundation.
This autumn Hanken launches an initiative to bring leading Finnish companies and international students together. The aim is to create an internationalisation programme that benefits all parties.
The fundraising campaign HANKEN RETURNS ended 30 June 2017. The campaign got support from a total of 944 private persons, organisations and foundations who together donated 11.8 million euro to Hanken.
Hanken alumni Päivi and Kurt Björklund donate 250 000 euro to the ongoing fundraising campaign HANKEN RETURNS. The donation reaches Hanken in the last week of the campaign and contributes to the campaign reaching 11.6 million euro.
