Johanna Tarvainen

Johanna works as an International Relations Coordinator at Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Finland in the Faculty of Social and Health Care, where she is responsible for the internationalisation of the nursing, social work and physiotherapy programmes. She has worked with student and staff mobility, faculty international relations, development of international higher education cooperation, internationalisation of education and intensive programmes as well as with education export activities. Johanna has a Master’s degree in social services and wide experience in managing national and EU-funded internationalisation projects in higher education such as FIRST (Russia–Finland), Nordplus (Nordic and Baltic countries), NSS (North–South–South) and Erasmus LLP projects. She was Chair of the EAIE Expert Community Health and Welfare Education from 2016–2018.