University of Turku and LUT University Adopt Bruukki

Bruukki is now in use at the University of Turku and LUT University. At the same time, our user base has begun to grow beyond Finland: the first teachers from the United States have found the service and are trying it out in their own work.

Two Finnish universities onboarding alongside a first touch with North American teachers gives a good picture of where Bruukki is right now: we are building a stable foundation in the home market while the first signals from other markets are starting to come in.

What university adoption means in practice

University teaching has its own characteristics. Courses live by each teacher’s pedagogical approach, and teaching materials are redesigned course by course every year.

Bruukki addresses three needs that stand out in a higher-education context:

• Up-to-date learning materials. University course content evolves continuously. New research findings, developments in the field, and current examples are added as the course progresses. Bruukki lets the teacher keep materials current quickly, without each update demanding several evenings of work.
• Differentiation for students at different levels. Students on the same course often have very different starting points. Bruukki’s pedagogical structure allows the teacher to offer multiple versions of the same content: a refresher version, a base version, and an advanced version. The same topic serves both motivated students and those who need extra support.
• Field-specific content, for example in language teaching. University language courses bring together students from different fields. Engineers, business students and healthcare students learn the same language, but the most relevant vocabulary and context differ by field. Bruukki makes it possible for the teacher to create texts and tasks for each group that connect to their own area of study. This raises engagement from the student’s perspective, when language learning is tied to their own professional context.

Both Turku and LUT have started with teacher-level collaboration. In practice this means a group of teachers using the service in their own work and giving regular feedback. The aim is to learn how Bruukki fits in a university environment before a wider conversation at the institutional level.

The service scales across borders

Bruukki is built to work in multiple languages and to fit different educational systems. The user interface is currently available in Finnish, Swedish and English, and we will be expanding language support to other languages in the near future. The AI features, on the other hand, produce content in any language, so a teacher can create materials for foreign-language teaching regardless of whether the language is in the user interface.

First users have also signed up to the service from the United States. The combination of teacher autonomy and built-in EU-level data protection is rare, and it clearly draws interest beyond Finland as well.

From an institution’s perspective, what matters is that Bruukki’s architecture supports growth across languages and education systems. The service holds up as the user base expands over time to multiple countries and different education levels.

What this means for institutions

Bruukki is a Finnish company with clear international ambitions. The Latitude59 top-15 selection, the higher-education collaboration at the University of Turku and LUT University, and the first organic users from the United States are signs that growth is happening in several directions at once.

For institutions, this comes down to two points.

First, Bruukki’s team has decades of combined experience with the Finnish education system, and many of us have worked inside educational institutions in various roles. We know the everyday life of teachers and what does and does not work in it. Equally important: we listen to users and develop the service based on their feedback.

Second, we offer all institutions a free trial period. During the trial, teachers get the full service in use, and the decision on continuation is made based on the feedback. We are flexible about how the trial begins: a handful of individual teachers, a single subject, or a broader institutional pilot.

Request a presentation for your institution

If you represent an institution and want to see Bruukki in practice, we are happy to give a presentation to your teachers or leadership team. The presentation takes about 30 minutes, after which it is clear whether Bruukki fits your workflow.

Get in touch at bruukki.com/en/contact/. We respond within the same week.