For companies
Key partnership
Laurea’s key partnership offers a direct channel to expertise, research and the makers of the future. Collaboration with motivated and promising future talents produces competitive advantage and impactful solutions.
Services for key partners
The key partnership enables impactful collaboration with one of Finland’s largest universities. Cooperation is always tailored to meet your company’s goals and current development needs.
As a key partner, you get direct access to Laurea’s expertise, research and development activities and future talent. Collaboration is based on an annual plan derived from your company’s needs and is realised as actions, experiments and solutions through which your business is renewed.
The key partnership is a strategic investment in competitiveness and competence. At the same time you strengthen your position as a responsible and socially impactful actor. Together we make impact visible and strengthen your brand and employer image in the eyes of future talent.
Benefits of the key partnership for your company
Recruitment
As a key partner you can recruit future talent agilely. With our staff and via recruitment events, platforms and tools you reach the most motivated and promising future talents. Recruitment collaboration streamlines workforce demand forecasting and improves the availability of personnel.
Projects and development
In project and development collaboration, future professionals act as your resources. Through project collaboration you can develop your operations or create something entirely new. Motivated students create concrete value for your activities in projects.
Visibility
Through visibility collaboration you develop the awareness of your operations and brand and improve your employer image. Through collaboration you can reach Laurea’s annual 1.3 million website visitors, 11,500 degree students, over 40,000 alumni and Laurea’s network composed of thousands of partners.
Examples of results from the key partnership
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Lue lisää: Students developed the Yliopiston Apteekki online shop and loyalty programmeStudents developed the Yliopiston Apteekki online shop and loyalty programme
Yliopiston Apteekki got new ideas and support for identified development targets from the Laurea student service design project.
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Lue lisää: Students participated in developing a more sustainable lunch mealStudents participated in developing a more sustainable lunch meal
Laurea key partner, the Restaurant Factory, challenged Hospitality Management students during the Service Innovations study unit.
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Lue lisää: Students come up with new motivating e-learning solutions for UnileverStudents come up with new motivating e-learning solutions for Unilever
During the Service Design course, students in the Business Administration degree developed learning service concepts based on an assignment by Unilever.
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Lue lisää: Service design provides solutions for sharing Ravintolakolmio’s employees’ ideasService design provides solutions for sharing Ravintolakolmio’s employees’ ideas
Laurea’s students developed methods for strengthening the innovative atmosphere.
What does your company get as a Laurea key partner?
- A dedicated contact person with whom, during annual planning, all the partner’s needs for Laurea’s services across different fields of education are mapped.
- Multidisciplinary student collaboration with students from different programmes (studies- or standalone projects, traineeships, theses).
- Broad visibility on campuses and in Laurea’s communication channels, reaching both students and staff.
- Broad visibility and additional services in the JobTeaser career portal.
- Targeted marketing of job and internship positions to students.
- Free participation in Laurea’s career and recruitment event.
- The opportunity to test and develop your products and services in Laurea’s various learning and development environments (Living Lab).
- Access to Laurea’s partners’ networking events.
- Opportunity to network with Laurea’s alumni.
Partners very or fairly satisfied with the collaboration
97 %
(Stakeholder survey 2025)
Partners’ satisfaction with the key partnership programme (scale 1-5)
4,4 / 5
Total number of Laurea’s key partners
88
Ask about key partnership
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Ilkka Kurkela
Director
ilkka.kurkela@laurea.fi
+358 40 651 4689