Flexible training models together with business life (SeutuAIKO)

In South Karelia, a need has been identified both to develop new paths to learning and to achieve a workforce with new and correct skills. The Flexible training models together with business life project is part of the regional cities' skilled workforce network projects, in which the city of Imatra is involved as a partial implementer. The goal of the network project, for its part, is to improve the availability of labor in the region by developing training that supports the region's vitality and top industries, e.g. by piloting various flexible education models, new cooperation models between educational institutions, and taking measures to increase the holding power and attraction of regional towns. In the Flexible training models together with business life project, an operational model serving the cooperation of regional cities' skilled workforce and education and business life will be built, from which each regional city will be able to extract relevant operational models for its own region for continuous use and for further development.

In Imatra's partial implementation of the Flexible educational models project and several other ongoing projects in the region, a new operating environment will be created where elementary school students will be introduced to robotics and its various possibilities and applications. The project utilizes best practices and international experiences with the aim of improving the availability of skilled labor, increasing interaction between schoolchildren, students and companies, and lowering young people's threshold for robotics and coding. International university cooperation is also being developed so that foreign students commit to the region and bring new skills.

Period of operation: 1.4.2019 April 31.8.2021 - 1.6.2019 August XNUMX. At Imatra, the implementation started on June XNUMX, XNUMX.

The project is implemented by:

• Raahe educational community association (coordinator)
• the city of Imatra
• The city of Iisalmi
• The city of Kurika
• The city of Keuruu
• Kristiinakaupunki business center
• Salo region's association of education municipalities
• Novida (Southwest Finland's Association of Education Municipalities)
• SASKY educational board association
• SAMIedu (East-Savo educational community association)
• City of theft
• Ylivieska technology village YTEK Oy

The project receives SeutuAIKO funding from the Southern Ostrobothnia Association.

For more information:

Tea Laitimo
Contact Director
tea. legalimatra.fi (tea[dot]laitinen[at]imatra[dot]fi)
Tel. +0400 156 677

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