TUAS Excellence Week of Health Promotion, Increasing inclusion and Renewing social and health care servicesApril 4–8, 2016 in Turku, Finland

Welcome to TUASExcellence Week 2016

#ExcellenceInAction Turku University of Applied Sciences is an inspiring community of 10,000 members - an innovative and multidisciplinary higher education institution, which creates international competitiveness and well-being for Southwest Finland. Our graduates are practice-oriented professionals with top competencies.

#Innopeda is a learning method developed at TUAS. It is based on experimenting, sharing know-how and combining different approaches. With Innopeda we successfully connect teaching, research and development activities, internationality and co-operation with working life.

TUAS Excellence Week will giveyou the opportunity to teach in a diffe-rent environment, network, exchange information and plan future cooperati-on with our teachers, staff and RDI experts. You will get to explore the beautiful nature and city of Turku.

HEALTH PROMOTION

KOKO KOULUTUSTARJONTAMME OSOITTEESSA: www.turkuamk.fi/taykkari

RENEWING SOCIAL AND HEALTH CARE SERVICES

Registration and more detailed programme at: www.tuas.fi/internationalweek

More information:Turku University of Applied Sciences – Faculty of Health and Well-beingHanna Peussa, International CoordinatorEmail: hanna.peussa@turkuamk.fiTel: +358 40 3550 421Location: Ruiskatu campus, Turku / Salo campus, Salo

Welcome to TUAS Excellence Week in April 4–8, 2016! During the week guest lecturers will be integrated in regular classes and for the administrative staff and RDI experts, workshops and other meetings will be offe-red. Feel free to send us your proposal for a lecture, workshop or case study presentation with our students and staff. In addition, please pass this invitation to your colleagues who could be interested in joining the event.

Below you will find the focus areas of the week.

INCREASING INCLUSION

Changes in the demography, ways of life and environment create novel challenges for health promotion. In cooperati-on with different actors, TUAS’ research, development and teaching activities develop innovative models of operation and practices to promote people’s mental, physical and social health. According to the national focus areas, the targets are ways of life and the healthiness of different environments, preventing accidents and infectious diseases and decreasing the differences in health between demographic groups.

Increasing inclusion is one of the focus areas of TUAS’ strate-gy. Inclusion is an essential means to prevent social exclusion. Being included in a society means that everyone has an op-portunity for health, education, work, livelihood, apartment and social relationships. Participation is one route to experience inclusion. At TUAS, we work with organisations and the third sector to increase the inclusion and well-being of individuals and groups with different measures. We aim to increase the well-being of children, youths, adults and seniors.

With active research and development activities, TUAS par-ticipates in the development of the local, regional and natio-nal service network in social and health care together with cooperation partners in working life. We develop and imple-ment new, client-oriented methods and digital services toget-her with municipalities, governmental organisations, hospital districts, organisations and businesses. We also develop the competence of organisations and their personnel.