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What kind of effect do animals have on student wellbeing? What are flexible learning environments like? Do adults change as a result of young people growing up? How can social abilities be learned with the arts aid in special education? An answer to these and many other questions was sought during the 2023 Helsinki Education Week. The week started snowy and white, but the atmosphere was colourful

Helsinki Education Week begins today and it's filled with excitement

A week-long celebration of learning is just a week away as Helsinki Education Week starts in the 30th of October.

Helsinki Education Week is primarily aimed at those working in childhood and education as well as their students. However, many of the events are open to everyone, and the programme of the week features events that are sure to interest the guardians of learners as well. Please note that these events are mainly held in Finnish.

During the celebration week, Helsinki learns, but so do the international learning experts who visit the city during the week.

Do you want to share your thoughts and experiences from the Helsinki Education Week? Or snap a couple of photos showcasing the atmosphere from your events? Awesome!

The diverse and plentiful programme of the week has now been published in its entirety.

Registration for event participation is done with individual userprofiles, that you can create through the helsinkieducationweek.com website by clicking the “sign up” button in the right upper corner.

Helsinki Education Week, held at the end of October, is rapidly approaching. There's still time until September 15th to submit event proposals. Unlike in previous years, event proposals won't be published all at once when the deadline for submission closes. Instead, the first events will be published on the website in August to serve as inspiration for individuals considering organizing an event.

A virtual event can be organised using the same principles as for distance learning online. Make sure that you have the necessary equipment and that your internet connection and applications work.

Helsinki Education Week will take place from 30 October to 3 November 2023, covering the whole city. After a three-year break, the week brings together all learners and more than 14,000 teachers and education professionals for local events. During the week, schools and other educational institutions and daycare centres will hold a range of events focusing on wellbeing and learning.

The fourth Helsinki Education Week was held in the first week of November. The event week gathered more than 1,700 participants from around the world who came to learn about the skills required in the future.

The wait is over: the week-long Helsinki Education Week starts today! We welcome you to discover skills of the future at events created by teachers, learners and international innovators. We asked the event organisers for their thoughts about the opening.

The Helsinki Education Week programme of events has been published! The selection of more than 100 events has something for all teachers, learners and parents interested in skills for the future. Click to join this virtual celebration of learning, held in the first week of November.

“It was a fantastic experience that really brought our class closer together”, says Tiina Halttunen, a class teacher from Vattuniemi Primary School, who participated in the international Clean Energy workshop with her class in 2020. To this story, we collected five of Ms. Halttunen's best tips for teachers who are thinking of organising an event for the Helsinki Education Week.

Helsinki Education Week is a celebration of best learning practices, and this year it will be held from 1 to 5 November.   The theme for 2021 is Designers of the future.

Helsinki Education Week is an internationally unique event. The event programme is created by the real education experts – teachers and education professionals themselves. Submissions for event proposals are now open. Here are examples from last year for inspiration.

With its unifying theme, Designers of the Future, Helsinki Education Week in 2021 shifts the focus to the learners. The aim is to ask pedagogically insightful questions and find solutions that strengthen the learners’ experience of active involvement – together.

In the first week of November, Helsinki Education Week brought together people interested in education from all around the world.

The Explore category provides our attendees with access to various educational innovations and learning environments.

The Network category hosts various networking events with a focus on co-learning and co-creation.

The Dialogue category consists of discussion sessions based on multiple teacher and student needs.

The Hands On category consists of a variety of workshops organised by teachers and students, both local and international.

Friends of education, welcome to the virtual learning festival!

This year, Helsinki Education Week will be organised as a series of online-events. As usual, the event will take place in November, more precisely on November 2nd-6th 2020.

In Helsinki, we want to emphasise that the entire city is a learning environment – in fact, the learning environment expands beyond the city’s physical limits when digitalism and virtual reality are added in.

Join the panel discussion to hear the latest findings and insights from the field of assessment.

What is phenomenon-based learning in practice at the schools of Helsinki? Helsinki Education Week provides a good opportunity to find that out, as the schools invite guests to have a look at their everyday operations.

Over 200 upcoming events

We warmly welcome you to the Helsinki City Hall on Thursday 22nd of August 14.30-16.00 to learn more about Helsinki Education Week. During the information session, you’ll hear what we learned from last year, what’s happening this year and how to get involved and host your own event!

Helsinki Education Week received more than 60 event proposals this spring with diverse event proposals targeted towards Finnish, Swedish and English-speaking participants and for learners of all ages as well as for those who are interested in learning and developing it.

Helsinki Education Week has been admitted to the official list of side events of Finland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

The second Helsinki Education Week will be held 4–8 November 2019. The week’s series of events will highlight the work carried out in Helsinki daycare centres, schools and other educational institutions. Last year’s Helsinki Education Week comprised more than 120 learning events held throughout the city. A large part of the programme is organized with international education experts and innovators.

This is how you create an excellent Helsinki Education Week event submission.

The first ever Helsinki Education Week takes place 5th-9th November. It’s set to be an exciting week celebrating the work done in daycare centers, schools and educational establishments around the city. More than 100 learning events are springing up around Helsinki and much of the program is organized in collaboration with international learning experts and developers.

Helsinki Education Week is being organized for the first time from November 5th to 9th 2018, by the City of Helsinki and its Education Division, in partnership with HundrED and Helsingin Sanomat. The theme of the week is excellence and equity in education – two core values of the Finnish education system.