Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (Metropolia), operating in the Greater Helsinki Area, is the largest university of applied sciences in Finland. Metropolia trains experts and developers in the fields of culture, business, health care and social services, and technology. Metropolia is specializing in developing new practical innovations, operating surroundings and building knowledge based networks with close co-operations with companies, industries and with other social and cultural operators and societies. Metropolia is a responsible partner and reformer of the higher education, cooperating to find new solutions and to build a better future.
Metropolia in brief:
- 15,000 students
- Staff 1,100
- 66 degree programmes of which 12 in English
- 700 foreign degree students, over 70 nationalities
- Budget in 2010 EUR 111 million
- Operating premises in 20 locations
- Owned by cities: Helsinki 42%, Espoo 27 %, Vantaa 26%, Kirkkonummi 4%, Kauniainen 1%
- R&D&I total volume in 2009 about EUR 7.2 million
Metropolia’s background and presence
Metropolia is a new and competitive University based on the merge of the two well-established higher education institutions, EVTEK University of Applied Sciences and Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia and started its operations on 1st of August 2008.
As a learning environment, Metropolia fosters the know-how, creativity and well-being of its members. As a university of applied sciences, it focuses specifically on the positive development of the labour market, culture and social aspects of the Helsinki metropolitan area by providing training of high international standard and by producing practical innovations.
Metropolia offers students an international and stimulating environment for learning with close connection with enterprices. All curricula have been reformed to meet the challenges of rapidly changing work life. All four education fields offer both Bachelor and Master level programmes in Finnish and in English.
The field of Technology and Traffic is based on the three cluster units named 1) Civil Engineering and Building Services, 2) Industrial Production, and 3) Information and Communication Technology having totally more than 340 teachers and 6900 students in 27 programmes.
The strengths of the Metropolia’s R&D work are multifunctional, interdisciplinary research, co-operation with companies and societies and high level knowledge based practical innovations in developing new products, tools and devices, production and processes, operational models and service businesses. Metropolia is a partner or stakeholder in many companies, societies or Finnish Strategic Centres for Science, Technology and Innovation (SHOKs), like:
- RFIDLab Finland
- Sensor Center Ltd
- Finnish Business Society (FIBS)
- Tivit Ltd
- RYM-shok Ltd (home page only in Finnish)
- Fimecc Ltd
Save Energy Helsinki Pilot
The implementation of the Save Energy project in Metropolia has been carried out in close co-operation with three clusters of Technology and Traffic. The teachers have been supervising the final year students (6 graduated) and several project groups (automation, bio- and food technology, business and production logistics), who carried out the energy consumption evaluation project in the kitchens in pilot buildings. The development team in Metropolia, lead by Asko Kippo, has included students from automation, electrical engineering, lighting and ICT (wireless communication and network, database, software systems) programmes.
The developed ICT system has been tested and will be launched for users during Autumn 2010. The ICT system monitors the pilot applications at Ala-Malmi and Pihkapuisto comprehensive schools including totally about 100 real time wireless measurements (electricity, heat and water, temperature, moisture, CO2, and illuminance) and the connection to the local building management and automation system. The users at the kitchens can follow the displays providing measurement data and other information about the energy consumption from the local info-TV system while working.
As the result in the Helsinki pilot the saving potential in the electricity consumption of the HVAC machines of the gym, lighting applications of the classrooms and the entrance hall, and in the kitchen operations have been identified.
For more information about Metropolia, please see the homepage at http://www.metropolia.fi/en/.
