The University of Jyväskylä has signed letters of intent on educational cooperation with Nokia and Elisa.
The University of Jyväskylä will launch a new type of educational working-life cooperation with Nokia and Elisa to integrate the strengths of the degree programmes of the Faculty of Information Technology and the enterprises’ RDI activities. The cooperation aims at a comprehensive strategic partnership covering the whole chain from first-year students to advanced RDI and scientific research activities.
Educational cooperation can include work practice during studies, theses and dissertations, research projects for technological development, and more.
At Nokia, we want to emphasize the importance of high-quality Finnish education and research. It is essential to ensure that we continue to have world-class talent and innovation in Finland also in the future, and we are delighted to further strengthen our collaboration with the University of Jyväskylä,” says Jarkko Pellikka, Program & Ecosystem Director at Nokia.
Vice Dean Lauri Kettunen, head of education at the JYU Faculty of Information Technology
The University is highly qualified in teaching subject matters and key principles and in training people for critical thinking and problem-solving. The companies are good at developing project and teamwork skills, need and user orientation and, for example, understanding acceptable compromises. The cooperation provides our Master of Technology students with a chance to incorporate in their studies paid work practice in RDI projects at Nokia and Elisa. This will significantly enhance the professional expertise and various working-life skills of our students and offer them a unique window for observing, already during their studies, new technological development in the field of IT.
Juha Peltomäki, Regional Director, Central Finland from Elisa
s pioneers in the development of software driven networks. At us, software production and automation development has already been strongly integrated into the processes and created a lot of completely new competence and expertise roles in the house. At Elisa, software and network expertise are merging more and more all the time and both skills are needed. It is important for us to develop our current personnel for new roles and competence needs, but in the future we will also need new competence and resources, which will allow us to continue the direction we have chosen in the field of strong automation development,
