Satakunta University of Applied Sciences - SAMK

We make dreams come true. Finland succeeds when the Satakunta region succeeds. Satakunta succeeds when SAMK succeeds. We succeed together. Our job is to make dreams come true, no matter how big or small. Our work-oriented education enables each of our students to graduate and find employment. Future growth stories are built around our core competences and faculties, around human welfare and modern industry. Our doors are open to the world, and we are part of the European higher education community. SAMK is a thriving higher education community of skilled people with its roots in Satakunta and its eyes on the future. We educate, develop and internationalize, and we promote entrepreneurship. The economic and industrial structure of the Satakunta region requires us to provide extensive and multidisciplinary education and research opportunities. Our profile: People and renewing industry. Finland depend on the industry of Satakunta and the West Coast. The role of people in a renewing industry is important. Skilled workers and new technologies help to achieve common goals. Our vision is: Every SAMK student graduates and finds employment. SAMK as an employer SAMK is a flexible employer whose employees consider stability, a good atmosphere and people, as well as the entire work community, to be the best aspects. Competent and well-being personnel are the lifeblood of the quality, efficiency and development of SAMK's operations. SAMK allocates significant resources to the development of its personnel in a systematic and long-term manner. We aim for the values of the indices describing the competence and well-being of employees to be higher than the average for expert organizations. SAMK's values are: - We encourage curiosity. - We inspire responsibility. - We want to exceed expectations. - We achieve results together.