- Level of action
- Regional
- Countries
- Finland
- Region
- Helsinki-Uusimaa
- Contact details
- Reija Paananen - email: reija.paananen@diak.fi
- Organisation website
- Theme of the organization
- Equal access to social services
- Type of organization
- Higher/secondary education inst.
- Offering
- We are currently looking for international collaborators in our R&D programmes to joint actions e.g. R&D projects, transferring and upscaling the existing innovations and mutual learning.
- Looking for
- Diak is an applied university offering BA and MA degree studies in social services, health care, diaconia and education, interpreting.We offer programmes in Finnish and in English. Our operating models enable flexible blended learning that is not time or place-bound.
In addition, we are an innovative actor in the R&D field with 2 strategic R&D Programmes: Diaconia and diversity and Social innovations and impactful welfare services. In these strategic R&D programmes we aim to generate research data and solutions which support:
-diaconia and equality and equity by innovating new and existing solutions, researching ethical issues and impact, and through multi-channel advocacy and networks.
-solutions on how to build effective, responsible, and human-centred social and health services and the service system.


