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Dr. Merja Männistö is the Head of Diak’s new Master School

PhD Merja Männistö has been appointed as the Head of Education and Research of Diak Master School. She will start at Diak in October 2023.

Diak’s brand is renewed: answer the survey and win Diak products!

Preparations for the renewal of Diak’s brand have been ongoing since the beginning of 2023. The aim is to develop the brand in order Read more

Finding assets, developing communities

Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) in Asset-based Community Development was organised on Helsinki campus at the beginning of June.

Exchange experience from Germany – new perspectives to social work

Yuno, English social services degree student, spent the autumn of 2022 as an exchange student in Hannover, Germany.

Sanna Wesanko appointed as Diak’s new Vice Rector and Director of Education

Psychotherapist, M.Ed., M.A. Sanna Wesanko has been appointed as the new Vice Rector and Education Director of Diaconia University of Applied Sciences. She is currently working as the Vice President for Education at Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK). 

Digital Competence BIP – an icebreaker for internationalisation

The Digital Competence BIP (Blended Intensive Programme) gathered students and teachers from four European countries to study the opportunities and obstacles digitalization creates for different target groups. BIP is a fun way to learn and meet new people, the student participants say.

Diak adopts electronic degree certificates

Diak switches to use electronic degree certificates in March. With the reform, those who graduate after March 1, 2023 will receive their degree certificates only electronically.

Record-breaking result: The number of candidates for Diak’s bachelor’s degrees in English increased almost threefold

The first joint application for spring ended on Wednesday January 18th 2023. The number of applicants for bachelor’s degree in English at Diak increased Read more

Apply now for BA degree programmes in Diak

There are 65 study places in two bachelor’s degrees conducted in English at Diaconia University of Applied Sciences. Bachelor’s Degree in Social Services (Helsinki Read more

International perspectives on eco-social change

The BIP (Blended Intensive Programme) intensive week organized at Diak’s Helsinki campus between November and December offered an understanding of eco-social change and tools to build an ecologically and socially sustainable world. Dozens of students and lecturers from various European universities came to the campus to learn and network.