Pre-Registration
20/01/2025 – 24/01/2025 JOENSUU (FINLAND)
Are you interested in participating in this course this school year 2024-2025? Please make a pre-registration so we can keep you informed about this course.
Final Registration
20/01/2025 – 24/01/2025 JOENSUU (FINLAND)
Would you like to confirm your participation for this course in the schoolyear 2024-2025? Secure your place and make a final registration.
Dates can be subject to change and are only final after official confirmation by the course provider.
Local partners organize these international courses in cooperation with Eekhout Academy.
The hosting partner organisation is the North Karelia Municipal Education and Training Consortium, Riveria.
North Karelia Municipal Education and Training Consortium, Riveria
Tulliportindkatu 3
80101 Joensuu
Finland
OID: E10194775
On the one hand, Finland developed an education system to tackle the challenges of the future, but on the other hand the system is embedded in Finnish culture and tradition. The country succeeded in merging tradition and innovation.
The system strengthens the profiles of the teaching professions by starting with a thorough initial teachers training, facilitating teacher continuous development, supporting teachers in developing innovative teaching and assessment methods; strengthening leadership in education, including distributed leadership and teacher leadership.
Participants to this course will learn about the Finnish educational system by visiting schools with an outstanding quality in Joensuu North-Karelia (Finland). Finland provides increasing access to affordable and high quality education and care, and enhances the quality of systems and provision, in order to foster appropriate development of all learners.
The course will include 5 elements:
1. General discussions about the school and its quality elements
2. Key aspects of the Finnish education success and transfer to your local context
3. Visiting schools to see those key aspects
4. Discussions and lectures with teachers and management staff
5. Cultural interaction and exchange of ideas
Final registration
Secure your place and make a final registration HERE.
Date
20/01/2025 – 24/01/2025 (Joensuu)
If this date doesn’t suit you we can organise an additional session for your school/organisation if there are at least 12 participants.
Target group
Target group for this course are teachers, trainers, educational counsellors, career counsellors, school psychologists, headmasters, school management and administrative staff working in either primary schools, secondary schools, VET schools, training centers, adult education, higher education and NGO’s.
Please be aware that the course may include teachers from different school levels.
Language
The course is organized in English
FINLAND – JOENSUU
The course is organized in the conference room of the local partner and in Finnish schools.
COURSE FEE
– For a detailed explanation, have a look at our ‘Cost Structure‘.
FUNDING
– You can request an Erasmus Plus grant from your national agency which will cover almost all costs of this course.
– We can guide you through the process of funding and application. To do so, you need the make a pre-registration.
– After pre-registration, we’ll contact you by mail and provide the application help.
There is a very good and fast train connection from Helsinki to Joensuu. Tickets for the train can be booked through the following website: https://www.vr.fi/
Finnair offers every day several inbound flights from Helsinki to Joensuu.
The roads normally are open and accessible in wintertime. A rental car from Helsinki also might be a possibility, especially when shared by several people.