Publications

​Publishing at LAB University of Applied Sciences aims to improve and enhance knowledge sharing in multi-disciplinary research and development as well as innovation. LAB is committed to the principles of open access publishing.

LAB Open

LAB Open is an open access publishing platform which publishes articles and audiovisual materials by the staff, students and partners of the LAB University of Applied Sciences. The platform hosts two individual journals which are published continuously. Both journals accept and publish articles also in English.

LAB Focus Blogs

The blogs of LAB's four focus areas bring forth each focus area’s RDI and education activities.

Publication series

The LAB publication series publishes reports, monographs and compilations based on the RDI and higher education teaching activities at LAB.

All publications in the series are available online via Theseus.

About publishing in LAB

You can read more about LAB’s publishing activities from the LAB Guide to publishing and open science. The guide also offers information about open science, how to evaluate scholarly publications, and how to promote your research.

For any additional information or questions, please contact julkaisutatlab [dot] fi (julkaisut[at]lab[dot]fi)

LAB Focus

INTED Conference: a place to learn about new trends in education and present own results

From March 4-6, 2024, the 18th annual International Technology, Education, and Development Conference, INTED, was organized in Valencia, Spain (INTED 2024). Over 600 international educational professionals from 78 countries participated in the conference to collaborate, network, exchange experiences, and learn about nascent challenges and opportunities in the education sector. The program included the keynote session, […] The post INTED Conference: a place to learn about new trends in education and present own results appeared first on LAB Focus.

Teaching critical AI literacy is a must

OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) chatbot, was launched in November 2022. Users interact with the bot through prompts written in natural language, and it responds in natural language. Within just a few months after its release, ChatGPT was estimated to have 100 million users; it also took academia by storm. (Dobrin 2023, 17-18; […] The post Teaching critical AI literacy is a must appeared first on LAB Focus.

SmartVille project partners visited LAB

LAB University of Applied Sciences started a new project Developing Sustainable and Entrepreneurial Villages through Educational Living Labs in Namibia and Zambia (SmartVille) with a kick-off meeting on January 2024 (LAB 2024). This ambitious two-year project is funded by the European Commission Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education. As a project coordinator, our LAB project […] The post SmartVille project partners visited LAB appeared first on LAB Focus.