Developing alumni activities

Alumni are one of the most important stakeholders and working life partners of Turku University of Applied Sciences. Through our alumni activities, we support alumni’s competence, networking and influence at Turku University of Applied Sciences. Alumni activities should therefore meet the wishes and needs of alumni.

The basis of the alumni ambassadors’ activities is to develop our alumni activities. As an ambassador, you get to brainstorm and plan the activities that alumni need and want. And, on the other hand, what alumni can bring from the world of work to the UAS.

Example of an activity: ambassadors can participate in the meetings of the alumni of the UAS. Ambassadors also have their own informal meetings to brainstorm ideas for alumni activities.

Increasing the visibility of alumni

Alumni is still a foreign word for some. However, every graduate is an alumnus and an important partner for the UAS. One of the objectives of the Alumni Ambassadors is to increase the visibility and awareness of our alumni. As an Alumni Ambassador, you can make alumni more visible by sharing your career story, participating in social media challenges and sharing information about alumni events with your network.

Example of an activity: at the bottom of the page you will find the ambassadors who participated in the #amkkasvot campaign. The #amkkasvot campaign has gained a lot of visibility, for example on LinkedIn.

Cooperation with education in your field

Alumni also work closely with schools. Alumni provide knowledge and experience of working life and are able to shape the content and priorities of training courses to better meet the needs of working life.

As an alumni ambassador, you can focus on developing alumni activities at the level of training.

Example of action: ambassadors have participated in career days in their respective schools by sharing their career stories and giving expert presentations on courses.

Developing continuous learning for alumni

Continuous learning is about developing and renewing skills at different stages of your life and career. Continuous learning refers to those forms of education and training that are offered mainly to non-degree students. Continuous learning as a whole covers open university of applied sciences education, specialised training, separate study rights, preparatory training for migrants and continuing training for which a fee is charged.

Workplace relevance should be the starting point for the design of continuous learning training. It is essential for working life, both for students and companies, that there is flexibility to combine learning with work, that training can start and can still be completed at a time that suits the student. For us, as a training provider, this is a place for development and continuous learning. What kind of continuous learning training products are best suited to enable the working age population in our region to learn new things in a continuous, complementary way?

As an Alumni Ambassador, you can contribute to the development of continuous learning content together with the Continuous Learning team.

Example of action: ambassadors have participated in career days in their respective schools by sharing their career stories and giving expert presentations on courses.

Performing at events and occasions

Turku University of Applied Sciences organises many events and occasions based on alumni activities as well as other activities. Events can include training courses, webinars, fairs and networking events.

As an alumni ambassador, you can visit and perform at these events based on your own interests. You can act as a speaker, a career story teller or other performer.

Example of action: the participants and the moderator of a panel discussion on the social economy were ambassadors.

Business cooperation with alumni or career and recruitment services

Turku University of Applied Sciences cooperates a lot with companies. Turku UAS has a career and recruitment service, which provides information on job, internship, thesis and project vacancies in companies for students of Turku UAS.

Alumni ambassadors can also work with career and recruitment services or alumni activities as a representative of a company, for example in the form of a company presentation.