University of Vaasa

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The University of Vaasa educates responsible leaders and experts for the needs of the future.
The education and research that the University provides is wide ranging, spanning from business studies, administration, and technology, to communication. Our research is relevant to our time and we produce scientific knowledge of high international quality. The strength of our university is the c...ommunity spirit, which promotes multidisciplinary studies and research. The campus is located on the western coast of Finland, and offers a modern study environment for 5000 students on the shore of the beautiful archipelago.
The faculty of Business Studies is one of the largest in its sector in Finland. Internationality is visible in the constantly increasing number of international students and staff. Achieving EPAS quality accreditation indicated that our education programmes are of a high international standard. The quality of education has been one of the guiding values and succes factors of the faculty. Our key areas of research have been internationally awarded.
The mission of the University of Vaasa is energising business and society. The University of Vaasa is a business-oriented, multidisciplinary, international university. Our focus of areas are:

• management and change
• energy and sustainable development
• finance and economic decision-making

The University of Vaasa will make major investments in world-class research activities, quality and influence. Attractive, world-class research environments and phenomenon-based research platforms will entice the best researchers in the focus areas to come to the University of Vaasa. Researcher education at the University of Vaasa is diverse and strongly networked, both nationally and internationally.
The education will be of high-quality, efficient and effective. The University will revamp its degree programmes to ensure that wide-ranging bachelor"s programmes provide a route for transitioning onto profiled, more internationalised master"s programmes. The degree programmes will address society"s educational needs, and the emphasis on relevance to working life will improve employability. Education that utilises new digital tools will be developed systematically. The University is a strong provider of adult education all over Finland. Exports of education services will be systematically developed.
The University of Vaasa systematically promotes societal influence by producing up-to-date, high-level research and education. The region"s nationally significant competence centre in the energy sector operates on global markets and the University of Vaasa has close interaction with the competence centre in terms of teaching, research and staff mobility.
Management and operations management ensure that the University of Vaasa reaches its objectives concerning the realization of its strategy, development of quality, performance and policies compatible to norms. The means that are used to achieve the objectives are action- and financial planning, quality assurance of operations as well as communication of operations.
The University of Vaasa carries out quality assurance by operations management. The development of operations management develops quality assurance alike. The development of operations management of the University of Vaasa is led by the Rector.
The subfolders of this website contain information about the goals towards which the operations of the University of Vaasa are aiming at, and what kind of methods and tools the University utilizes for management, operations management and quality assurance.
Strategy, Performance and Quailty Goals page contains information about the objectives of the University of Vaasa concerning strategy and quality, performance and policies compatible to norms.
The Means of Operations Management page contains information about the procedures of action- and financial planning, quality assurance and communications.
The highest decision-making body of the University of Vaasa is the Board which is appointed by the University Collegium. The university operations are lead by the Rector chosen by the Board. The Rector is supported in their tasks by the Steering Group which consists of the Deans, the University"s employer representatives, Vice Rector and the Rector, who acts as the chair. The Rector can also call other persons to be members of the Steering Group.
The University has a Council of Research and Education, which is the administrative body responsible for the quality of research and education. The council is chaired by the Vice-Rector and includes one representative from each of the Schools, as well as nine other representatives of the University community and their personal deputy members.
The University of Vaasa has four Schools for research and teaching. These are the School of Management, the School of Accounting and Finance, the School of Marketing and Communication and the School of Technology and Innovations. The Management Group and The Dean of each respective faculty are responsible for its administration.
The University of Vaasa is going to have three multidisciplinary research platforms: Vaasa Energy Business Innovation Centre - VEBIC, Digital Economy, and Innovation and Entrepreneurship InnoLab.