Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment

KILKAS

International student’s path to employment in Finland!

Competitiveness and growth in promoting the employment of foreign UAS students

Results

The main objective of the KILKAS project was to develop and implement a working model to contribute to the employment and integration of foreign students to the Finnish labor markets. The project collected and further processed the experience and results of the partners’ previous projects and pilots, regional good practices as well as new approaches into a national working model for the disposal of all universities of applied sciences (UASs) in Finland.

Start building your career path!

This is a model for international students starting their studies and heading for employment in Finland

You can find all the material published from our Finnish project website.

Download the model in pdf-format.

Project name:

KILKAS – Competitiveness and growth in promoting the employment of foreign UAS students

Project duration: 1.4.2016–31.5.2018

Info

Lead partner: South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences
Partial partners: Universities of Applied Sciences: Turku, Tampere, Oulu and Seinäjoki
Other partners: Companies
Focus area: Digital economy

Budget

Financier and main source of funding: European social fund. North Ostrobothnia centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment.
Total budget: 739 711
Xamk part of the total budget: 271 507

Contact info

South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences
Project Manager Pia Kaari, pia.kaari@xamk.fi

Project was implemented in co-operation with:Oulu, Seinäjoki, Tampere and TurkuUniversities of Applied Sciences