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Joint Degrees Principle or added value?
Case Art and Design

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University of Art and Design Helsinki data

• Founded in 1871
• 1800 degree students in 2004
• BA 3 years, MA 2 years, doctorate 4 years
• 13 degree students from abroad in 2003
• 10 of MA and DA students from abroad in 2003
• 230 students from abroad annually from over 30
  countries
• Helsinki the biggest university of its kind in
  Europe

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• Helsinki data
• From 11 Departments to 5 Schools 2003
• A. Design 650
• Industrial and Strategic, Space Furniture,
  Fashion Textile,
• Ceramic Glass, Applied Art Design
• B. Art Education 400
• C. Visual Culture 350 Fine Art, Graphic Design,
  Photography
• D. Motion Picture, Television and Production
  Design, 200
• E. Media Lab 100

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• Why Joint Degrees in Art and Design?
• Pure principle? Principle by whom?
• What is the real added value?

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Added value of JDs in Art and Design?

• 1 Multiple career opportunities
• 2 University collaboration creates bridges for
  personal opportunity of a student
• 3 Guarantee the competitiveness in the
  international job market
• 4 More recruitment opportunities for companies
• 5 Raising the capital of talents in the
  university
• 6 Deeply increasing the dynamics of the
  university actions
• 7 Multiculturalism diversifiying the thinking of
  an individual and institution
• 8 Knowledge transfer
• 9 Cultural transfer
• 10 Better with Russia than with Palermo Italy!

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• Context
• MA Finland 32 Russia 42 (magistr/spetsialist)?
  
• What is a Joint Degree?
• Existing studies used under the agreed JD
  umbrella
• or
• a taylor-made programme?

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• Problems
• In practise JD possible but law causes
  problems also globally
• Russia Challenges and Problems?
• language barrier among teaching staff
• no activity in communication
• bureacracy should be more transparent
• teaching staff no extra hours without payment
• gt How to solve?

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Helsinki Challenges and Problems

• Too little courses in other languages than
  Finnish
• Too weak know-how on other cultures
• Too lousy study culture for talented and
  ambitious students
• Xenofobic attidudes still alive
• Degree studies are for free, no fees are
  interpreted as weak quality and lack of resources
  cause problems in internationalization

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• Joint degrees necessary?
• Can diploma supplement be enough? And no new
  tailored program?
• On the conditition that -
• Additional funding must exist for universities to
  collaborate internationally (state-to-state, EU
  programme funding etc.)
• Easy Jointly analysed and agreed existing
  courses as part of the JD?
• Planning still necessary

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We - humans

• no internationalization without humans
• no collaboration without friendship
• no collaboration without will
• no collaboration without being stubborn
• Art has no language

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• What is up?
• Helsinki ongoing development on studies at home
• This development also executed in the framework
  of Cumulus European Association of Universities
  and Colleges of Art, Design and Media
• www.uiah.fi/cumulus
• Russians to act under this Cumulus framework
• Tempus application under planning out 15 Dec
  2004 by Helsinki
• Ministry of Education allocating funding for
  study development between Russia
• Finland through a specific programme (check 18
  Oct 2004)

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• Sposibo! Kiitos!