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HAMK Häme University of Applied Sciences (FI), University North (HR) and University of Zagreb (HR) visit BUas

04/24/2024 - 11:30

In the week of 15 April, HAMK Häme University of Applied Sciences (FI), University North (HR) and University of Zagreb (HR) visited Breda University of Applied Sciences (NL) to facilitate and discuss cooperation. All of these institutes are active members of CIVITAS Educational Network which BUas is coordinating as part of the CIVITAS MUSE project.
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The visits of the Croatian universities comprised meetings with the internationalization team of BUas to discuss potential educational cooperation, such as lecture and student exchanges. These were followed by meetings with DTV, also based in Breda, to discuss the involvement of the universities and their students in the upcoming CIVITAS Summer Course 2024 which will take place on 2-5 Sept 2024 in Zagreb, Croatia. Experts from University North and University of Zagreb will be part of the Summer Course programme as speakers on various topics relating to the 3 challenges the course participants will be working on. A campus tour was then organized to showcase the research, educational and other facilities BUas has to offer. Potential cooperation formats between BUas, University North (Department for Logistics and Sustainable Mobility) and University of Zagreb (Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences) will be further explored in the coming months. In September 2024, universities will come together again during the International Conference on Sustainable Transport (SuTra24) which will take place in Croatia, and will feature a dedicated session on CIVITAS Educational Network. 

“Thank you for your warm welcome in Breda and BUas. We were very impressed with what you do in Logistics and Built Environment departments, and also in Games, and we would like to achieve deeper cooperation with BUAS, because we have so much in common, not just in our aspects of teaching and researching.”

- Assoc. Prof. Predrag Brlek, Head of Logistics and Mobility Section at University North (HR)

Next to the visit of University of Zagreb and University North, BUas also hosted lecturers and students from HAMK Häme University of Applied Sciences (Traffic and Transport Management Department). The goal of their visit in the Netherlands was exploring Dutch mobility solutions in combination with attending Intertraffic Amsterdam. BUas lecturers organized two cycling tours for the Finnish visitors - one in Breda and one in Houten, where students experienced the Dutch way of cycling and designing cycling and bike parking facilities. Students from HAMK also joined one of the courses of the Built Environment bachelor`s programme where they worked in mixed teams with the students from the BUas study on an assignment exploring the differences and similarities between Finnish and Dutch transport and traffic situations. 

“I want to thank you for hosting us at Breda and BUas! We had an amazing experience and it was so great to get to know the biking culture of the Netherlands! Inspired by that I've now been cycling around 20km a day. The conditions are totally different, but it feels good anyway!”

- Aleksi Vähämäki, Traffic and Transport Management student at HAMK Häme University of Applied Sciences (FI)

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