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Our students are ready to develop your organisation from small to large projects. Find out more about our services.
Our students will bring fresh vision, practical skills and a passion for development
You can get an intern to help you, order a thesis or bring your challenges to the Growth Lab workshop to be solved. Cooperation with students is an agile way of advancing projects for which you require additional resources or a new viewpoint.
Cooperation is easy
You can start by commissioning an internship, leaving a thesis assignment or giving a development challenge to the Growth Lab workshop. We will help you find a suitable student or team.
Submit your assignment to the mobile student service. You can also use the service to offer volunteer work and gigs.
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Intern
Are students are performing internships throughout the year. Interns bring up-to-date theoretical knowledge and practical skills to organisations regarding topics such as youth and organisational work, adventure education, the development of working communities, cultural production, project management, sign language and interpretation for the speech impaired, and communication guidance.
Finding an intern is easy: Leave a free internship commission by clicking the attached link on this card (opens a new tab in our Jobs service).
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Thesis (Bachelor’s or Master’s)
A thesis is a comprehensive developmental work, which the student completes in close cooperation with the customer organisation. It can be used to implement extensive projects that meet the development needs of your organisation. A thesis is an excellent way of researching, experimenting or developing something for which there would otherwise not be time in everyday life.
You can submit a commission for a thesis free of change in our Jobs service.
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Master’s thesis (20 credits)
A master’s thesis is a more demanding organisation-level development task, which suits the employers and the employee’s joint goals. The work provides in-depth analysis and assessment of effectiveness.
20 credits correspond to about 520 working hours (about 70 workdays)
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Bachelor’s thesis (15 credits)
A bachelor’s thesis is a research and development task. It can be done individually, in pairs or in groups, and it produces concrete solutions to practical working life issues.
The scope of the thesis is 15 credits, corresponding to about 400 hours of work (about 53 working days).
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Growth Lab
The Growth Lab workshop is an operating model, where a student group and our experts respond to a development challenge commissioned by an organisation. An expert facilitates the development work carried out by the students in the workshop, where they work together to find solutions and new ways of tackling the challenge. The Growth Lab workshop can be a two-hour workshop or a longer development process.
Workshops can be implemented regionally according to the commissioner’s wishes. It is suitable, for example, for developing services or methods of operation, testing new ideas, strengthening community or participation, and developing communication and interaction.
The workshops are a fast, agile and inclusive method of progress. They often offer more than one solution: They increase understanding and provide new viewpoints.
Why offer internships and thesis projects to UAS students?
Taking on students from universities of applied sciences as interns or for writing a thesis is a concrete way of combining working life development and social responsibility. At the same time, the organisation gets access to up-to-date know-how, new perspectives and solutions based on researched knowledge for its own development needs.
Universities of applied science are built for close interaction with working life. Students’ internships and theses are work-based developmental modules combining practical needs, professional competence and pedagogical guidance. Organisations are supported by motivated actors and the expertise and structures of an institute of higher education.
By offering internships and theses, the organisation contributes to the development of a skilled workforce, the strengthening of the working skills of young people and those switching careers, and the sustainable development of society. At the same time, low-threshold cooperation is created, which can develop into longer-term partnerships, recruitments and new operating models.
Cooperation with students is an investment in the future – in people, know-how and the renewal of working life.
Instructions for submitting an internship or thesis commission
Cooperation between education and working life is made concrete with internship courses. It is important for students to learn at the workplace. A successful and high-quality internship benefits the place of the internship, the student and the institute of higher education.
You can also leave others here, such as thesis commissions and summer job offers, for our students. Go directly to Instructions for submitting a commission
Information about internships
Duration of the internship
At Humak, various study modules can be completed in the form of an internship. In general, an internship of 10 credits usually lasts 5 to 6 weeks. Internships can also be combined for larger modules.
The student can be in an internship all year round and also in the summer. Every year, dozens of students from our school’s European partner universities also study at Humak. They can also complete studies in the form of internships in Finnish organisations.
We recommend paying the intern a salary or remuneration. This increases your chances of finding a motivated intern.
An intern’s work tasks
In the start of studies, the main emphasis is on getting acquainted with working life and the profession. In the final phase of studies, the emphasis is on more demanding and independent work tasks.
All internships also provide theoretical knowledge of the subject area and use the relevant literature in the analysis and evaluation of work tasks.
Prerequisites for an internship
The workplace must have a responsible person appointed for the intern, i.e. an intern instructor, who undertakes to guide the intern throughout the internship. For this guidance, the workplace representative receives training from Humak. At the end of the session, the intern receives a final written and oral feedback from the instructor.
A successful internship demands cooperation from the workplace, student and university of applied sciences. The goals of the internship are written in the internship agreement, which is drawn up before the start of the internship.