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Welcome to our course hub. Here, you can connect with an international academic community and develop your competences in three key areas:

 

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Digital skills

Digital literacy and data skills.

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Green skills

Insights into sustainability, climate action, and urban resilience.

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Transversal skills

Broad competences, such as communication and creativity.

How to navigate our offers

We offer you a diverse range of opportunities – from short-scale workshops and multi-week courses to full-semester modules. All offers are conducted in English, and most are free of charge.

 

Our courses serve different purposes: some lead to formal academic recognition (ECTS), while others provide specialized knowledge or professional certificates. Before registering, please check the participation requirements, the duration, and the mode of delivery (e.g., self-paced online learning or blended learning formats).

If you are looking to earn credits, please clarify the ECTS recognition with your home institution beforehand. This allows you to decide which courses align with your degree requirements and personal interests – whether you want to gain formal credits, broaden your professional horizons, or develop future-proof urban competencies.

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Metropolia Minno® – introduction to innovation

The Metropolia Minno® online course is an inspiring journey into the foundations of innovation, teamwork, and future-oriented thinking. Through engaging content and reflective exercises, you’ll dive into themes such as psychological safety, foresight and futures literacy, design thinking, and the Inner Development Goals framework.

Discover how innovators think, collaborate, and lead change — and prepare yourself for the next steps in your journey, wherever it may lead!

The course is completed entirely independently on the Moodle online platform. It is free of charge and suitable for anyone interested in the subject.

An inspiring journey into the foundations of innovation, teamwork, and future-oriented thinking. Dive into psychological safety and design thinking.

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Ethical hacking

In this course, learners develop ethical hacking and penetration testing skills that build a foundation for success in the cybersecurity industry. With the support of video and rich interactive media, participants learn, apply, and practice ethical hacking skills in meaningful ways through a series of realistic hands-on lab experiences.

The course also includes many opportunities for learners to practice what they are learning as they are learning it. Learning by doing is the most powerful way to build new skills and knowledge.

Develop ethical hacking and penetration testing skills that build a foundation for success in the cybersecurity industry.

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Basics of sustainable development

In this course, students develop an understanding of climate change, biodiversity loss, and their global impacts. The student becomes familiar with key ethical theories and apply them to complex sustainability issues.

The course highlights the importance of ecological, social, and economic sustainability and the student can apply these principles in practical contexts. The student becomes familiar with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and can explain their global relevance. Additionally, the student can apply the Inner Development Goals framework to practical situations to enhance sustainability and evaluate its impact.

Develop an understanding of climate change, biodiversity loss, and their global impacts and become familiar with key ethical theories.

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Digital fashion: culture, practice & sustainable future

This is a joint online course offered by Metropolia UAS (Helsinki) and AMFI (Amsterdam) as part of the U!REKA collaboration, open to Master’s students, advanced Bachelor students and life-long learners. The course explores the cultural, technological and ethical dimensions in the fashion industry as it shifts towards digital futures.

Through independent study and virtual group activities, students critically engage with topics such as AI-assisted design, virtual garments, data-driven fashion and sustainability in the digital and phygital realm. Emphasizing responsible innovation and aligned with the U!REKA Centre of Expertise Transition to Circular Society, the course provides learners with the theoretical knowledge by introducing to the key literature in the area and familiarizes with digital fashion practices. The course also fosters cross-border and interdisciplinary collaboration. These together equip to envision and co-create more ethical, inclusive and sustainable digital fashion futures.

Prerequisites

Bachelor’s degree recommended but not necessary. This is a master level course (EQF 7), but advanced bachelor’s students can als take the course. The course is intended for students of fashion & clothing, digital fashion technology, fashion management, fashion studies, digital design, game design or similar. U!REKA staff members and lifelong learners with sufficient background in fashion or digital technology are also welcome.

Course dates

The course can be taken any time between 16 Februar – 31 December, 2026.

Explore the cultural, technological and ethical dimensions in the fashion industry as it shifts towards digital futures.

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Discovering entrepreneurship

This course is a solid start for anyone who is interested in developing their own entrepreneurial skills. The course consists of both Cisco course and Moodle Quizzes related to each module found in Cisco course “Discovering entrepreneurship”. After completing the course student understands the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, understands the entrepreneurial perspective and is able to identify opportunities in a everyday life.

Understand the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, develop your own entrepreneurial skills, and identify opportunities in a everyday life.

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Introduction to life cycle assessment

This learning module will teach participants what LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) is. By the end of the course, you will understand what LCA is, who can use it, its applications, and how it works.

This learning module will teach participants what Life Cycle Assessment is and how it works.

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