Capacity Building for Clean Technology : Research and Education Design among Metropolia UAS, Finnish Cleantech Companies and Vantaa City in Asian Market (China)

Abstract

Nowadays, cleantech is a worldwide hot topic. The reason might be its features of high efficiency and minimal negative environmental impacts to the surroundings. By seeing that, private and governmental organization have made numerous investments in this field in Finland. Metropolia UAS is also preparing and seeking for proper cooperation.

This thesis was conducted for Metropolia University of Applied Sciences to first find cooperation possibilities with Finnish local cleantech companies and the City of Vantaa to extend into the Chinese cleantech market and then design suitable courses for potential coming delegations from China as an educational media.

With much effort of researching and connecting, the potential cooperation partners are listed in the thesis, and support from the City of Vantaa is illustrated as the signature of Director of Business Development on a promotion letter cited at the end of the thesis.

Even though the response rate from the target companies was negligible, the products and services of these companies are still analyzed in the paper in order to design suitable courses for the future. All suggested courses are planned to be conducted on the basis of the courses in the curriculum of Metropolia UAS, but with some changes and new ideas added.

Further suggestions for Metropolia UAS are also given in the conclusion to monitor this potential project.