The primary aim of the Competence-based Curricula Development in Higher Education project (2012-2014) was to improve the competence-based approach taken to the development and planning of curricula in universities and universities of applied sciences. In addition to the authors, the following people were involved in the project in advisory roles: Jaana Kullaslahti (HAMK University of Applied Sciences) and Kirsti Haihu, Timo Halttunen, and Ari Koski (University of Turku). Owing to the autonomous way in which HE institutes develop curricula, the project focussed on the management and support of the development process in six universities of applied sciences and in five universities. The project advisers utilised various working groups and fora to support the development of curricula in consultation with those persons responsible for curriculum development at the respective institute. Seminars, thematic training sessions, and workshops were organised at the HE institutes, and these were used to work on, edit, and write curricula. All of the HE institutes were assessed and given feedback on their curricula. The collaborative efforts of the HE institutes and stakeholders from working life were supported through various discussion forums, workshops, and seminars; these explored shared expertise, the content of the curricula, and student mobility between undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. Although university degrees and those awarded by universities of applied sciences have different objectives and contents, they still need to be shaped into a coherent entity.
