(1889) TRIPARTITE MODEL IN MASTER?S DEGREE PROGRAMMES AT TURKU UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES - “ TEACHERS AT MASTER?S LEVEL AS BRIDGE BUILDERS BETWEEN EDUCATION AND WORKING LIFE”

摘要

The Finnish higher education system has been developed as a dual system. A close connection withworking life is one of the main emphases in universities of applied sciences. This goal can beachieved e.g. by developing the contacts between research, development work and innovation (RDI)and teaching. To connect RDI projects with the studies as a whole, but especially to master's theses,was one of the most important innovations in regard to the master's degree studies at the Faculty ofHealth Care at the Turku University of Applied Sciences. Since 2005 the model has been implementedto all master?s degree programmes at the Faculty of Health. Ministry of Education and Culture hasfunded a national project (2013-2015) in order to integrate RDI work to all master?s degreeprogrammes at universities of applied sciences in Finland. The project has been divided into four workbackages. In WP 4 “Teachers at master?s level as bridge builders between education and workinglife“, a tripartite model operates as a framework for all research and development. A tripartite modelmeans a way of producing master's theses as working life related projects. It will be evaluated againwith different methods in WP4. Aim in this presentation is to clarify what is a tripartite model and how itis used on master?s degree programmes, and to know how it is possible to link master's degreestudies to RDI.