Saimaa University of Applied Sciences

Saimaan ammattikorkeakoulu

Basic information

  • Identifiers
    • DEQARINST0888
    • FI0609
    • ROR: https://ror.org/002nhnx25
    • FI-ETER.BAS.NATID: FI0609
    • Erasmus: SF LAPPEEN07

      • Erasmus Institution Code

      Identifier assigned by the European Commission to higher education institutions participating in the Erasmus+ programme - data harvested from ETER/OrgReg

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  • Provider type
    higher education institution
  • Legal seat(s)
    Lappeenranta, Finland
  • Website
    https://www.saimia.fi/en-fi/
  • Founding year
    1997
  • Closing year
    2020
  • QF-EHEA levels
    second cycle, first cycle
  • Previous names
    • Saimaa Polytechnic (Saimaan ammattikorkeakoulu) until 30/06/2014
  • Historical relationships
  • Permalink
    https://data.deqar.eu/institution/888

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional audit
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional audit
Thematic evaluation
Thematic evaluation
Thematic evaluation
Thematic evaluation

Programme level

This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Degree Programmes in Mechanical Engineering and Production Tecnology (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.