Yrittäjyys sosiaali- ja terveysalalla (5 cr)

Code: YSJA0400-0K6S1

General information

Timing: 01.01.2020 - 31.07.2020
Implementation has ended.

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 5 cr

Local portion: 5 cr

Mode of delivery: Face-to-face

Unit: School of Health and Social Studies

Teaching languages: Finnish

Degree programmes: Master’s Degree Programme in Health Care and Social Services

Teachers: Tapio Mäkelä; Armi Hirvonen

Groups: YSY18S1
Sosiaali- ja terveysalan ylempi AMK tutkinto-ohjelma; YSY19S1
Sosiaali- ja terveysalan ylempi AMK tutkinto-ohjelma

Course: YSJA0400

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Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Objective

The student recognises the business opportunities in the health and wellness sector arising from the reform of social and health care services. The student masters the basic concepts of wellness entrepreneurship and recognises various operating logics in wellness entrepreneurship. The student masters the basic business planning and earning logic of a start-up business. The student has tools at his/her disposal that can be used for assessing the feasibility of a business idea.

Content

- The reform of social and health care services and its effects on business in the wellness sector.
- Business in the wellness sector and forms of entrepreneurship in the student’s own field.
- Planning the operating concept of the business to be set up.
- Description of the industry sector and surveying of the competitive situation.
- Evaluation of the business idea.

Materials

Haapa-aho, M. 2014. Hyvinvointialan yrittäjyys. Näkemyksiä hyvinvointialan yrittäjyyden tulevaisuudesta. Metropolia ammattikorkeakoulu. (viitattu 14.3.2017) http://hyrrat.metropolia.fi/?page_id=23 Study material will be announced later.

European Commission. 2019. ENTREPRENEURSHIP 2020 ACTION PLAN. (viitattu 5.4.2019). https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52012DC0795&from=EN

Completion alternatives

Course includes two contact seminar days (workshop and lectures), in addition, course includes various independent and group learning tasks related to course content:
1) Pre-assignment
2) Mid-assignment
3) Sector-oriented learning task
4) Final assignment
5) Business model and its description

Student workload

o lectures and workshop 20 hours
o virtual study 50 hours
o independent work 65 hours

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Pass (S)
The student masters the basics of entrepreneurship in the social services and health care sector and the operating logic of entrepreneurship. The student recognises the client-oriented, sustainable and financially profitable mechanisms of entrepreneurship. The student recognises the opportunities for entrepreneurship offered by the social welfare and health care reform.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree