Program

Registration

Registration opens, with tea/coffee & time for initial networking

Opening of the 2025 T.I.M.E. Conference

LUT Rector Prof. Juha-Matti Saksa
T.I.M.E Association President Prof. Didier Clouteau

Understanding LUT and the Finnish context: Internationalisation, Research, and Education.

LUT University Provost Prof. Mari Kallioinen-Mänttäri

Education for purpose

Dr Kimmo Rauma

Lunch break

Lakeside walk

Opportunity for a healthy walk by Lake Saimaa (weather dependent)

Business and cultural immersion: understanding Finland

Prof. Karl-Erik Michelsen
Tanja Karppinen

Tea & coffee break

T.I.M.E. Speed Dating

Organised by the LUT Entrepreneurship Society, this will be a dynamic networking session designed to facilitate introductions between members, showcase institutional profiles, and initiate discussions around potential areas for academic collaboration

Transportation from campus to the Cocktail Reception

Transportation provided from LUT's Lappeenranta campus to cocktail networking event in the city. The Cocktail Reception starts at 18.00.

Registration

Registration opens, with tea/coffee & time for networking

Redefining knowledge and learning in the AI era

Paavo Ritala

Group photograph

T.I.M.E. Association workshops #1

1 - Improving the diversity, equity and inclusion of double degree program
(Dr. Johanna Naukkarinen, associate professor, LUT University)

2 - Enhancing students’ intercultural communicative competence in collaborative online environments
(Prof. Marta Aguilar-Pérez, associate professor of English for Special Purposes and technical communication, Universitat Politècnicade Catalunya, Barcelona Tech)

3 - A New Face of Mining Engineer—International Curricula to Sustainable Development
(Anna Gogolewska, PhD Eng. Wrocław Tech.; Maria Mamelkina Development Manager, LUT University)

4 - Industrial Technology serving Sustainability
(L'Oréal and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (names will be confirmed later on)

T.I.M.E. international study fair

Information

Campus & lab tour #1

1. Junior University & JHC
2. Power-to-X & Nuclear Engineering
3. Separation Sciences & Mechanical Engineering (steel structures, welding technology, packaging technology)

Lunch break

Campus and lab tour #2

1. Junior University & JHC
2. Power-to-X & Nuclear Engineering
3. Separation Sciences & Mechanical Engineering (steel structures, welding technology, packaging technology)

T.I.M.E. Association workshops #2

5 - Preparing engineers for industry 5.0 : a T.I.M.E. perspective
(Prof. Pierre Dehombreux, full professor at the University of Mons; Prof. Lucas Equeter, junior lecturer in Mechanical Engineering University of Mons)

6 - Double Degree in Energy Technology -our challenges
(Franziska Arens, exchange coordinator, LUH; Katja Hynynen, associate professor Electrical Engineering, LUT University; Päivi Sikiö, associate professor Energy, LUT University)

7 - Creating and capitalizing on the synergies between management actions and grassroot initiatives to develop engineers prepared to work globally for a sustainable future
(Jonas Niklewski, Lund University; Ivar Björnsson, Lund University)

Close of day two

Time for personal appointments & to explore Lappeenranta at own leisure

T.I.M.E. 2025 Gala Dinner

Dinner and dancing with the band Overdrive

Registration

Registration opens, with tea/coffee & time for networking

T.I.M.E. General Assembly

Lunch break

Afternoon sauna by Lake Saimaa

Start of optional social program for participants

Close of day three

Trip to Verla - UNESCO world heritage site 

Approximately 40 places available for visit to Verla - former wood-grinding mill, a key site in the industrial history of Finland

Mini tour of Lahti

Short tour of Lahti (European Green Capital 2021) & view of LUT's Lahti Campus

Close of day four

Participants can take advantage of Lahti's numerous onward connections to Helsinki, or return to Lappeenranta