The 3AMK Moves -project started when the balls moved on the 19th of September at the 3AMK development seminar at Haaga-Helia’s Pasila campus. About fifty people witnessed how representatives of Haaga-Helia’s, Laurea’s and Metropolia’s management received the balls from 3AMK Chief Process Director Antti Vettenranta and promised to be involved in moving. What is this all about?
3AMK Moves -project aims to develop higher education culture through movement to support learning, well-being and communality. The project will develop higher education culture by creating a common movement guideline that encourages the 3AMK higher education community to take movement into account and increase it in all its activities. The project creates and launches pedagogical practices for counselling and teaching that promote study ability. The aim is to increase physical activity by targeting interventions and pilots especially to increase movement and physical activity among sedentary students. Haaga-Helia and Laurea are implementing the project, and Metropolia is involved in the project as a partner.
“By adding movement to our higher education culture, we are not only supporting learning, well-being and communality, but also strengthening the ability to study and work” says Project Manager Martina Roos-Salmi from Haaga-Helia.
The project is linked to the Government Programme Get Finland Moving, which encourages people and communities to pay more attention to everyday physical activity. 3AMK universities are members of On the Move programme Liikkuva opiskelu -network and are committed to increasing movement in the everyday life of higher education institutions. The theme of the project also supports 3AMK’s common development of well-being in 2025–2028. The project is funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture.
“It’s great that we are starting to develop higher education culture together as 3AMK. The principals of the higher education institutions are committed to developing the higher education culture together to support learning and enable a more active and attractive higher education environment. And we will get the entire 3AMK community involved in the development through activity pledges and the movement guideline formed of the promises together” says Specialist Nelli Roine from Laurea. The commitment of the higher education institutions was symbolised by handing over the balls at the 3AMK development seminar from 3AMK Chief Process Director to universities’ representatives.
Although the real balls were moving in the 3AMK development seminar, symbolic balls are moving in the 3AMK higher education communities this academic year. The balls are passed on in higher education institutions from one group to another, such as student unions and associations, administrative teams, RDI operators, specialists and teaching staff. The group that receives the ball is encouraged to come up with an activity pledge that suits them and test it in practice. With the activity pledge, the group commits to trying, for example, increasing movement and taking breaks from sitting still in a way that suits the group’s everyday life. During the academic year, the activity pledges tested by the groups will be shaped into 3AMK’s common movement guideline.
More information:
Project Manager Martina Roos-Salmi (martina.roos-salmi@haaga-helia.fi)
Project Manager Joni Heikkilä (joni.heikkila@laurea.fi)