Tampere University is a multidisciplinary higher education institution located in the Pirkanmaa region of Finland. It hosts about 22,000 students and more than 4,000 staff members along its seven faculties. The university brings together research and education in the fields of technology, health and society and collaborates with partners in a vast number of institutions of higher education and other organisations worldwide, developing research and innovation that aim at improving problems of our and future times. Tampere University strategy identifies its values as being based on courage, critical thinking, diversity, erudition-bildung, learner-centredness, openness and responsibility.
The Faculty of Management and Business (MAB), which is involved in the HEP-TED project with Rwanda, has about 3,500 students and 300 staff members. It develops teaching and research in the areas of administrative and business sciences, politics, information and knowledge management and industrial engineering and management. This multicity of disciplines offers a chance to develop new perspectives to problems in these fields beyond and across traditional disciplinary boundaries, by providing multidisciplinary and internationally high-level research and education.
MAB has wide networks both within the university and wider society, contributing in both legislative and business processes, and engaging in active communication with other societal actors, such as businesses, public administration and NGOs.
