University of Tampere (UTA, FI)

Back to Partner list

University of Tampere became a state university in 1974. Today there are six faculties: Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Education and Faculty of Information Sciences. The university has some 14 000 degree students, 11600 taking first degrees, some 1600 postgraduates and 800 non-degree students. Like the other Finnish universities, the University of Tampere offers programmes leading to Bachelor's, Master's degrees and beyond. Most degree programmes are multidisciplinary. All the Finnish universities are also responsible for postgraduate education and research. The University of Tampere conducts research in all those disciplines, which are offered as major subjects. University teachers are also expected to do research. The University receives considerable financial support for its research from the Academy of Finland and also from other external sources. Many departments also have their own research units and connections with networks and umbrella.

HyperMedialab
The Hypermedia Laboratory (http://www.uta.fi/hyper) is an active research and development centre of hypermedia that gathers and combines know-how from different faculties and fields of science. In the R & D projects user-friendly possibilities for the future are "visionalized" and implemented in close co-operation with companies and institutions. The Hypermedia Laboratory at the University of Tampere offers education on hypermedia and interactive and digital media that are closely related to it. The education is aimed at designers, developers, producers and users in the field. In addition to education the Hypermedia Laboratory conducts research and development of hypermedia in different aspects of science. Research areas are Learning, Knowledge Creating Systems, Adaptive Content and Experience Design. Hypermedia Laboratory organises leading new media related research conferences like EDMEDIA 2001, Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference CGDC 2002 and Interactive Human and Future MindTrek.

Key people: Tapio Waris, Jarmo Levonen, Mikko Ahonen, Teija Vainio

Back to Partner list