VIVES University of Applied Sciences

Take on education

VIVES University of Applied Sciences, with its modern and competence-based higher education, its innovative practical research, and its services provided to society, offers an adequate response to the social challenges of today and tomorrow. VIVES is an appreciative, friendly, and people-oriented university of applied sciences which concentrates on professionally oriented Bachelor Degrees and Associate Degrees. In doing so the University of Applied Sciences ensures that its students contribute to the globalised world both as human beings and as professionals.

VIVES is fully and actively committed to the development of competences. Students are given every opportunity to work on their future. This is reflected in the motto of the university of applied sciences: Design Your Future.  VIVES believes it is important for its staff members to do their jobs with enthusiasm. That’s why the university of applied sciences offers them extensive opportunities to develop and spread their expertise.

VIVES opts to give centre stage to responsibility and ownership, and appreciation and respect for each individual. Sustainability is another important commitment for VIVES. VIVES aims to be a trendsetter in higher professional education through innovation.

Innovation

Shaping the inspirational education of tomorrow. Students and lecturers work on a challenging learning environment, which may or may not be independent of time and place. Innovations capitalize on research results and on the expectations of current and future generations of students, the working environment, and society.

Preparing for the jobs of the future. Students and lecturers strive to acquire the competences needed for the professions of today and tomorrow. The interaction between theory and practice challenges them to push their boundaries. Education, practical experience, and their own practice-based research are interwoven to that end.

Connection

Learning from and with each other. Students and lecturers learn together as a team. They build their own professional network with opportunities for informal and interdisciplinary learning. To accomplish that, they make full use of the facilities of the digital world.

Finding your way in higher education. To assist students in making the right choices, and in order to help them climb the learning ladder VIVES works together with its educational partners. VIVES also fully recognises previously acquired competences.

Engaging in active dialogue with the workplace and society as a whole. Students and lecturers learn from and with external parties. They take a critical view of society and make their expertise readily available outside the university of applied sciences environment.