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37-523: The university was established on January 1st, 2019, as a merger between the former University of Tampere and Tampere University of Technology . The new university is also the major shareholder of Tampere University of Applied Sciences . University of Tampere was founded in 1925 as the Civic College in Helsinki teaching public administration , organisation management and journalism. In 1930,

74-550: A broad area of study (such as women's health ). A center of excellence may also be formed to revitalize stalled initiatives. The term may also refer to a network of institutions collaborating with each other to pursue excellence in a particular area. (e.g. the Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science ). Within an organization, a center of excellence may refer to a group of people,

111-692: A center that provides sufficient and easily accessible medical services to patients. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the United States, in 2023, allocated $ 24 million to create 10 maternal health research centers of excellence. In the British NHS , the term is almost always used sarcastically , following its popularisation by Dr Peter Gooderham on the Doctors.net.uk fora. It can often be heard being used to describe tertiary centres by staff working in district general hospitals. In

148-484: A department or a shared facility. It may also be known as a competency center , or as a capability center , or as an excellence center . Stephen Jenner and Craig Kilford, in Management of Portfolios , mention COE as a coordinating function which ensures that change initiatives are delivered consistently and well, through standard processes and competent staff. In technology companies, the center of excellence concept

185-535: A manned aircraft design center of excellence in Melbourne, Florida . It uses modeling and simulation tools at the center of excellence which predict the performance of its test-bed aircraft, as a method for reducing risk during the process of developing the B-21. In 2013, it designated five centres for excellence in the U.S. Huntington Ingalls Industries is building out an Unmanned Systems center of excellence, which

222-641: A plan of scientific and educational work for the period of two years, to the council. The council issues a special certificate of the COE status to the leader of the group. In the United Kingdom, schools and sixth forms specialising in an area of curriculum are known as specialist schools . These schools are recognised as centres of excellence in their specialist subject areas. Schools that attained Beacon status were also recognised as centres of excellence, however this status has been discontinued. Walmart

259-492: A single Nordic Centre of Excellence: Furthermore, the University coordinates Academy of Finland 's flagship programme on Photonics Research and Innovation (PREIN). 61°29′39″N 23°46′41″E  /  61.49417°N 23.77806°E  / 61.49417; 23.77806 University of Tampere The University of Tampere ( UTA ) ( Finnish : Tampereen yliopisto (Tay) , Latin : Universitas Tamperensis )

296-530: A total of 195 students were enrolled at the College and its name was amended to the School of Social Sciences. As the institution grew, it expanded to municipal administration, public law, child protection, and civic education. Faculty of Social Sciences was established in 1949 as the first faculty. By 1960, the number of students had increased to 933 and the School of Social Sciences moved to Tampere. The institution

333-466: A total of 195 students were enrolled at the college and its name was amended to the School of Social Sciences. Similarly, the institution's vocationally oriented bachelor's degrees were expanded into municipal administration, public law, child protection, and civic education as well as a master's degree in social sciences . The first faculty, the Faculty of Social Sciences, was established in 1949 and

370-418: Is a team, a shared facility or an entity that provides leadership , best practices , research , support, or training for a focus area. Due to its broad usage and vague legal precedent, a "center of excellence", in one context, may have completely different characteristics from another. The focus area might be a technology (such as Java ), a business concept (such as BPM ), a skill (such as negotiation ) or

407-402: Is designating certain employee healthcare venues as centers of excellence. In 2013, several regions of the country (Dallas-Fort Worth; Northern Arkansas; Orlando, FL) Walmart is offering employees free treatment when they use the designated CoEs. Treatments are administered to covered employees, who travel to the centers, along with a caregiver, for a course of treatment at the center. Depending on

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444-451: Is often associated with new software tools, technologies or associated business concepts such as service-oriented architecture or business intelligence . In academic institutions, a center of excellence often refers to a team with a clear focus on a particular area of research; such a center may bring together faculty members from different disciplines and provide shared facilities. The governments of Guyana and India jointly formed

481-760: Is to reduce farms by 25% by 2030. This includes closing the University Library. The announcement was met with protest from faculty staff and students as they felt that there is a lack of transparency in the design of this decision, and that their voices were not heard in the matter. Tampere University comprises the following faculties: A total of 21,500 degree students studied at the Tampere University in 2021, including 18,800 students in bachelor's and master's degree programmes, and 2,700 students in doctoral degree programmes. Additionally 1,600 students are completing medical specialty training. In 2019,

518-637: Is working on Boeing's project for the Navy's Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle. Asda 's merchandising centre of excellence in Leeds contains "a full-size model store for mocking up different shelf layouts and a state-of-the-art virtual reality lab, where Asda and its suppliers can test store layouts and construction plans". Unum opened its IT centre of excellence in Carlow , Republic of Ireland in 2008, expanding it in 2020 promoting business technology in

555-570: The Philippines , a center of excellence (COE) is a certification given by the Commission on Higher Education to departments within a higher education institution (e.g. a college within a university) which "continuously demonstrates excellent performance in the areas of instruction, research and publication, extension and linkages and institutional qualifications". Candidates for this certification are referred as centers of development (CODs) by

592-604: The President of Finland , signed an edict for establishing a Tampere-based branch of the Helsinki University of Technology in 1965. The school began operating on the same year. The branch gained independent university status in 1972 and was named as Tampere University of Technology . The two universities always had close relations and co-operation was common in the fields of economics , computer science , biotechnology , and medical technology . Therefore, merging

629-564: The School of Social Sciences ( Finnish : Yhteiskunnallinen korkeakoulu ), the institution relocated to Tampere in 1960 and was renamed as the University of Tampere in 1966. In 2016, its budget was € 184.6 million of which 59% was government funding. The institution was established in 1925 as the Civic College in Helsinki teaching public administration , organisation management and journalism with an inaugural intake of 72 students. In 1930,

666-731: The Centre for Excellence in Information Technology (CEIT) at the University of Guyana in 2019. In Australia, the Australian Research Council (ARC) funds a competitive grant program for centres of excellence which link a number of institutions within the country and internationally in a specific field of research. New centres are funded every three years and each run for seven years. 2020-2027: 2017-2024: 2014-2021: 2011-2018 2004/5-2013 In

703-714: The European defense community, the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats is a response to hybrid warfare on its periphery; the COE seeks to inform, and also protect its non- NATO components, as well as its non- PESCO members. The US Department of Defense (DoD) intends to use CoEs that focus on key technologies, such as drones, and commercial satellite imagery. The Army maintains numerous Centers of Excellence (CoE) at major universities, training installations, and other locations: TRADOC oversees ten of these Centers of Excellence, each focused on

740-674: The Päätalo, Pinni, Linna and Virta buildings while the Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences and Laboratory Services are located at the Arvo building in the Kauppi campus. The Päätalo building was completed in 1960 and served as the university's first premises at Tampere. The Pinni complex was completed gradually during the 1990s and 2000s and the Linna and Virta buildings were ready for use in 2006 and 2009, respectively. The medicine-focused Arvo building

777-483: The School of Social Sciences moved to its new Päätalo main building, designed by Toivo Korhonen , at Kalevantie 4, Tampere. After the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration were established in 1964 and 1965, respectively, the School of Social Sciences was renamed as the University of Tampere in 1966. A programme, called Tampere3, to merge the university with Tampere University of Technology and Tampere University of Applied Sciences

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814-402: The U.S. and abroad IBM Consulting launched its center of excellence for transformative generative AI in 2023. Alliant Techsystems , Otis Elevator , Alcoa , Greatbatch , and GE have each used centers of excellence as organizational mechanisms to gain economies of scale , when discovering and sharing efficiencies of operation. In the healthcare sector, the term often refers to

851-450: The budgetary outcome, Walmart will be sharing its operational results with other employers, as a method of controlling its healthcare costs. Ford Motor Company opened its Ford Ion Park battery center of excellence, meant to centralize a cross-functional team to accelerate the development of battery and battery cell technology. Electrical batteries would then serve as the basis for all-electric vehicles. Northrop Grumman has invested in

888-750: The education body. In Russia, the Center of Excellence status (in Russian it is used notion Leading scientific school ) is granted by the Council for Grants of the President of the Russian Federation since 1996. To obtain the COE status, a group of scientists, usually based on a department at a university or a laboratory at an academic institute, and its leader should have a high scientific reputation and should submit an application, which presents

925-469: The establishment of a new foundation university. Initially, Tampere University of Applied Sciences was planned to merge into the new foundation, similarly to the other two universities. However, this would have required changes to legislation since Universities of Applied Sciences , or polytechnics, are not considered as Universities, in Finland, which can grant licentiate and doctorate degrees. The merger of

962-493: The number of students steadily increased from 227 in 1940 to 661 in 1950. The programmes offered by the school grew, such as degrees in social and youth work, librarianship and economics as well as a prison officer's diploma. The first doctoral degree was completed in 1955 and in 1956, the City of Tampere and the School of Social Sciences agreed on relocating the school to Tampere. By 1960, the number of students had increased to 933 and

999-527: The two universities was approved by the Finnish Parliament in December 2017 and came into effect on 1 January 2019. The university commune ( TUNI ) comprises the new Tampere University and the Tampere University of Applied Sciences, of which Tampere University is the major shareholder. In 2021 it was announced that Tampere University is trying to get rid of a large part of its premises. The goal

1036-510: The universities had been suggested multiple times. The Tampere3 merger process began in 2014 when vuorineuvos Stig Gustavson invited the higher education institutions in Tampere to discuss a reform. In 2015, the three universities decided the objectives on creating the new university in Tampere. In 2016, the Ministry of Education and Culture appointed a steering, and a working group to prepare

1073-685: The university received 17,482 applications of whom 1,418 were enrolled for an admission rate of 8.1%. It hosted four centres of excellence in research, such as on mitochondrial disease and in Russian studies , as of 2016. As of 2017, a tuition fee of approximately 10,000 euros was charged in general from non- European Union / European Economic Area citizens studying in the English-taught master's degree programmes with 50% or 100% cover scholarships available. Other students, such as exchange or doctoral students, were exempt from fees. The university

1110-406: The university received 28,265 applications of whom 2,977 were enrolled for an admission rate of 11%. During that same year, the university was the second most applied university in Finland only bested by the University of Helsinki . Tampere University is primarily a research university, whereas, Tampere University of Applied Sciences focuses on development. Pre-merger multidisciplinary collaboration

1147-653: The university was organized into six faculties as of a 1 January 2017 reorganization: The following people served as rectors of the University of Tampere: The University of Tampere had two campuses in Tampere: the main campus in the centre, near the Tampere railway station , and the Kauppi campus next to the Tampere University Hospital . The main campus hosted most of the faculties and comprised

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1184-482: Was a public university in Tampere , Finland that was merged with Tampere University of Technology to create the new Tampere University on 1 January 2019. The university offered undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes with 20,178 degree students and 1,981 employees as of 2016. Founded in 1925 in Helsinki as the Civic College ( Finnish : Kansalaiskorkeakoulu ) and from 1930 onwards known as

1221-583: Was built in two separate phases reached in 2009 and 2016. The floor area of the university's facilities totaled 130,134 m as of 2016. Instead of dormitories at the campuses, the Tampere Student Housing Foundation rented apartments to students around Tampere. 61°29′39″N 23°46′41″E  /  61.49417°N 23.77806°E  / 61.49417; 23.77806 Center of excellence A center of excellence ( COE or CoE ), also called an excellence center ,

1258-463: Was mainly conducted between the fields of signal processing , biotechnology and medical technology at the Institute of Biosciences and Medical Technology (BioMediTech). The University states that it aims to become a globally recognized research community in the areas of technology, health, and society research. The university has ten Finnish Centres of Excellence : The University also comprises

1295-782: Was ranked 201–250 on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018. Likewise, it ranked 551–600 on the QS World University Rankings 2018 and 101–150 on its Communication and Media Studies category. In 2016, the total budget of the university was 184.6 million euros, of which 108.8 million was core funding by the Government of Finland and 67.49 million was external endowments . In addition to its independent units, Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD), Laboratory Services, Language Centre and Library,

1332-499: Was renamed to the University of Tampere in 1966. Tampere had been the most important industrial center in Finland since the late 19th century. Agathon Meurman, member of the senate of Finland , had expressed the need for a technical higher institution already in the mid-19th century. Yet, even after the continuation war all technical higher education was conducted in Helsinki University of Technology . Urho Kekkonen ,

1369-507: Was started in the spring of 2014. The merger was approved by Parliament in December 2017 and came into effect on 1 January 2019. The new foundation-based interdisciplinary higher education institution was named Tampere University after the proposed name of Tampere New University faced criticism. A total of 14,712 degree students studied at the University of Tampere in 2016, including 11,810 students in bachelor's and master's degree programmes and 1,646 doctoral students. Likewise in 2016,

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