Finland - Jyvaskyla Region - Final Self-Evaluation Report.pdf

egion is according to national and international standards. The interviews and questionnaire (used in thisstudy) revealed that the prioritization of activities will be a significant challenge; the units have clear viewsabout the needs for additional resources connected to new openings and areas of strength. However, on theother hand, apart from a few exceptions, there were no drafts (plans made) about (how to affect) thedeclining functions. What is required in the prioritization of activities, are policies concerning the reallocationof the aforementioned resources: the endless expansion of the various functions is impossible.Discussion proposal 2: Stronger re-allocation of resources to targets that form the area of excellencein schools, faculties and individual subjects is needed. In the future, the units should be capable ofshowing how resources are re-allocated in developing the most important areas of emphasis (Figure8.1). Prioritising activities that would support national competitiveness requires the areas ofcompetence to be defined in such a way that ensures they are complementary with the other national(and even with foreign) HEIs. On the other hand, from the regional point of view, prioritisingactivities means closer and more holistic cooperation between educational institutions in order topromote the chosen areas of focus. The starting point for regional specialization should becomplementary roles achieved through cooperation between the University and the Polytechnic, andan effort to use the resources as efficiently as possibly as well as defining the regional focuses.Through the University and the Polytechnic’s specialization, critical mass can be achieved even on anational or international scale. Prioritising activities should be guided by both regional and nationalstrengths, present areas of competence and current focuses. However, in practice to achieve bothnationally and regionally complementary operation of HEIs might be rather complicated.LOW REGIONAL PROFILINGHIGHSTRONG REGIONALCOMPLEMENTARITY1WEAK NATIONAL AND REGIONALCOMPLEMENTARITY2STRONG REGIONAL ANDNATIONALCOMPLEMENTARITYSTRONG NATIONALCOMPLEMENTARITYLOWNATIONAL PROFILINGHIGHLOW REGIONAL PROFILINGHIGHNATIONAL UTILIZATION OFREGIONAL PROFILINGDEVELOPMENTBASED ONREGIONAL PROFILINGLOWPROFILINGPROFILING ACTIVITIESPROMOTING NATIONALCOMPETITIVENESSREGIONAL UTILIZATION OFNATIONAL PROFILINGDEVELOPMENT BASEDON NATIONALPROFILINGLOWNATIONAL PROFILINGHIGHFigure 8.1 Allocation of resources: Development paths towards regional and national profiling110