Climate Programme for the Karelia University of Applied Sciences
Vakkila, Karri (2026)
2026
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202601201556
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202601201556
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Karelia University of Applied Sciences has agreed with the City of Joensuu and Climate Joensuu to make a Climate Programme for the Karelia University of Applied Sciences. The Climate Programme was made as a Master’s thesis work and the Climate Programme was supposed to be in use starting from the year 2026.
This thesis was mixed method research that included a background study about the ways of carbon footprint reduction for the Climate Programme that was followed with a summary of the carbon footprint calculation of Karelia University of Applied Sciences. After the carbon footprint calculation, the research had interviews about the forthcoming Climate Programme with specialists and specialist groups of the Karelia University of Applied Sciences and other universities in Finland.
A part of this thesis was also to make a survey to the students and employees of Karelia University of Applied Sciences in order to know their commitment to different proposals of the Climate Programme and in order to gather more proposals. The interviews and the survey were followed with feasibility assessment of the proposed ideas. The final outcome of the thesis was a Climate Programme to be used in the Karelia University of Applied Sciences.
This thesis was mixed method research that included a background study about the ways of carbon footprint reduction for the Climate Programme that was followed with a summary of the carbon footprint calculation of Karelia University of Applied Sciences. After the carbon footprint calculation, the research had interviews about the forthcoming Climate Programme with specialists and specialist groups of the Karelia University of Applied Sciences and other universities in Finland.
A part of this thesis was also to make a survey to the students and employees of Karelia University of Applied Sciences in order to know their commitment to different proposals of the Climate Programme and in order to gather more proposals. The interviews and the survey were followed with feasibility assessment of the proposed ideas. The final outcome of the thesis was a Climate Programme to be used in the Karelia University of Applied Sciences.