Savonia is a higher education community where everyone is treated equally, with respect for people and equality.

Our aim is to promote diversity in the work and study community.

-Savonia’s diverse higher education community includes both staff and students. An equal higher education community is humanly safe and everyone can develop as themselves,” says president at Savonia UAS Mervi Vidgrén.

Safe space for ideas, a common goal

At Savonia, diversity is seen as a value that enriches and develops the higher education community beyond equality. We develop the higher education community as a pluralistic, multicultural and non-discriminatory working and learning environment.

Our value proposition is to be the best higher education community in Finland. In the best higher education community there is room for different ideas, but at the same time we are strongly united by a common goal.

-At Savonia, courage is one of our core values. It also means that everyone can be themselves, act in their own way and grow in their own direction. We do all this together, supporting each other,” says Juha Asikainen, Executive Director of SAVOTTA.

Values made real in the Equality and Equity Plan

Our values are to be trustworthy, community-minded and courageous. We want to promote these values in all our activities.

Savonia’s Equality and Equity Plan aims to promote equality and prevent discrimination and discrimination against persons belonging to a gender or sexual minority.