Excellence in Tampere Region

Tampere is known for education, research and technology. Up to 15% of Finland's national R&D budget is spent in the Tampere Region.The region has strong and focused business activities and research expertise in seven different fields:

• Biotechnology
• Digibusiness
• Energy Technology
• Health technology
• Intelligent machines
• Nanotechnology
• Ubiquitous computing

These activities are based on close cooperation between various research institutions, institutes of higher education, the business community and different financing organisations. They speed up the growth of industry by activating cooperation networks and providing financing as well as by launching and realising different development projects.

University of Tampere

The University of Tampere embraces many fields of science and its research profile is extensive and multidisciplinary. There are six faculties and nine independent institutes. The University of Tampere is the biggest provider of higher education in Finland for social sciences and the accompanying administrative sciences.

Some 15,200 students are currently pursuing degrees at the University of Tampere. Every year approximately one thousand master's degrees and one hundred doctoral degrees are produced. The personnel number about 2,100.

The strengths of the University of Tampere are:

• research on information, information technology and knowledge
• research on cities, the environment and the regions
• research on journalism and media
• research on change of society
• research on the individual and the health of the population

TUT: An international university of technology at the leading edge

Tampere University of Technology (TUT) conducts scientific research in technology and architecture and provides higher education within these fields. The University operates in close collaboration with business life and other facets of society and produces high-standard services within its range of tasks.

TUT is Finland’s most international university of technology in researcher and student exchange.

Leading-edge fields of research at TUT are signal processing, nanophotonics and intelligent machines.

Practically all Masters of Science in Technology or Architecture and Doctors of Technology or Philosophy who graduate from TUT find employment, predominantly in the service of business life.

Established in 1965, the University has grown to become a significant influence on technology in Finland and abroad. TUT plays a pivotal role as an advocate of business life, internationalization and well-being in the Tampere region and western Finland as a whole. The University is the fifth largest employer in Tampere.

Tampere University of Applied Sciences

TAMK University of Applied Sciences and PIRAMK University of Applied sciences merged on the 1st of January 2010. The name of the new university of applied sciences is Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK). The new university of applied sciences will have approximately 10 000 students and it will operate, in addition to Tampere, in Ikaalinen, Mänttä-Vilppula and Virrat.

TAMK offers education in seven educational fields. The education focuses on technology, business, tourism, as well as health and social welfare services. The School of Vocational Teacher Education (TAOKK) is also a part of TAMK. TAOKK provides the pedagogical qualification required of teachers in vocational institutions.

The tasks of the universities of applied sciences also include applied research and development as well as offering working-life based services.