Helsinki Learning Week 2018
All about learning
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September 13-19, 2018
Helsinki, Finland Helsinki Learning Week is the super week of learning! It gathers together many events from education conferences and international festivals to networking dinners and hackathons. Join us to celebrate learning in all of its forms! Helsinki Learning Week will be opened by city of Helsinki Deputy mayor for education, Pia Pakarinen, at SETT Finland, September 13 at 8:45. |
September 13-14: SETT Finland
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SETT is the largest event for modern and innovative learning in the Nordic countries. During the two energetic days bustling with events we offer Finnish educators and decision makers a vast choice of seminars and workshops to attend, an inspiring exhibition and a unique forum for networking with other professionals in the field of education.
Purchase a seminar ticket or register to attend for free here! |
September 13: Settfest
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Join us for a free networking event at Messukeskus! SETT Fest is open for all SETT Finland seminar and exhibition guests, as well as other educators who want to stop by to enjoy music and meet colleagues. The event will feature a performance by KASMIR!
Register here! |
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September 13: Kokoa Standard Kickoff Party
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Kokoa is launching a platform for teachers where you can test, review, and find the best quality learning solutions. To celebrate the launch we will have a party and host a Kahoot Quiz where the winner is awarded with flights to New York! In the event you’ll also hear a presentation from a famous education blogger Mark Anderson and learn how to join Kokoa’s community of evaluators. The invitation also includes entry to SETT FEST, the amazing SETT after party with a performing artist Kasmir! SETT event ticket is not required for joining.
Register here! |
September 15: Dare to Share
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Dare to Share is a learning festival where regular people teach one another. Come share your hobby, passion or profession. Teach and learn new skills. Start a discussion about something fascinating. The festival is a beginner friendly event. Anybody can come to teach or just come and enjoy the lessons.
This event is free of charge and open to everyon! Read more here! |
September 17: Linko x KOPE Hackathon
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Come and experience this year's most intriguing hackathon where students and faculty members of Finnish Higher Education Institutions hack higher education pedagogy. Together with LINKO and supported by Dare to Learn and Helsinki Think Company, this event is powered by national KOPE and OHO!- programs, both of which consentrate on bringing higher education to the next level. The winners of the hackathon are provided with tickets to Dare to Learn festival and get to pitch their solution to a big audience of Dare to Learn guests.
Get your ticket here! |
September 17: Dinner with the Night School
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The Night School, or in Finnish 'Koulutusviennin iltakoulu' is an informal networking platform and event. We support each other in striving to make education better around the world! Join us to mingle with fellow inventors, pedagogues, business developers, investors and leaders from edu companies, education institutions, ministries and start-ups! The lightly moderated dinner discussions are about the most intriguing topics.
Get your ticket here! |
September 18-19: Dare to Learn
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Dare to Learn is the biggest learning festival in Northern Europe which gathers together thousands of learning enthusiasts from all over the globe. Two days full of inspiring keynotes, workshops, and talks fill Kaapelitehdas in September! The new movement of learning and inspiration awaits!
2 days. 5 themes. New angles. More action than ever. Are you ready? Get your ticket here! |
September 18: HRD Meetup Finland
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Do you dare to learn at work? Are you tired of discussing only about competencies and training? Would you like to think together more about actual LEARNING? Learning at networks, learning while job crafting, learning through trial and error etc? Discuss more about learning organisations, traits of culture which supports learning at work? This is a meeting for HRD and other professionals whose responsibility is to help people learn and develop in their job.
How amazing would it be to have a network of like-minded professionals to lean on and to learn from? Who would help YOU to develop in YOUR job? Well, that is exactly what we are trying to do. This meeting is all about networking. And not just at the meetup but also to form a lasting active network, a community of like-minded colleagues. The meeting will be held in Finnish. Access with Dare to Learn -ticket, registration is needed. |
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September 18: Breakfast network meeting hosted by Deputy Mayor for Education Pia Pakarinen |
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Helsinki is the world's most impactful place for learning and the whole city is utilized as a place for learning for people of all ages. Digital technology enriches the learning process and enables learning regardless of time and place. The city collaborates with businesses on many levels to develop and innovate new learning. Come and find out more about the different kinds of collaboration possibilities Helsinki has to offer. Whether you are an edtech startup or representing a company already well on its way, Helsinki has something interesting to offer in the field of education! We want to be the creator and enabler of possibilities for education companies for example through agile piloting. Dare to find out more? You are able to network and connect with other companies, the Deputy Mayor and other city representatives over breakfast.
Time: Tuesday September 18 at 8.15 - 9.00, breakfast served at 8 o’clock onwards. Venue: Knowledge Base (Dare to Learn basement, Kaapelitehdas, Tallberginkatu 1) Available for the 50 first registered with Dare to Learn badge! Register through the form. |
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September 18: Be JYUnited – Entrepreneurship Education Crossing Borders and Building Bridges by University of Jyväskylä |
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Satisfied with the status quo of traditional approaches to teach entrepreneurship? Ready to change the perspective and think outside of the box? Answer is yes? This workshop is the right place for you! Are you curious to explore alternative ways of thinking, trying and learning entrepreneurship in a dynamic ecosystem of students, startups, teachers, researchers and business professionals? You are warmly welcome!
In our workshop, we encourage you to cross borders and build bridges between academics and practitioners, students and entrepreneurs, universities and vocational education organizations through entrepreneurship education and services. Join us to hear and discuss inspirational Jyväskylä Yritystehdas examples! Date and time: 18th of September at 12 noon to 2 PM Location: Higher EduCarousel area, Kaapelitehdas, Tallberginkatu 1 00180 Helsinki Access with Dare to Learn -ticket! |
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September 18: Kick-off Seminar for the Educational Marathon Collaboration: Finland, Russian and Kazakhstan 2018-2019 |
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Interested in entering new markets, getting new business contacts and sharing your experience with Russian and Kazakhstan colleagues? Attend Educational Marathon’s official kick-off seminar at Dare to Learn!
The Educational Marathon is a chain of events that includes networking, experience sharing, and cross-visits. The Marathon participants are educational experts from the three countries. Come to learn more, meet your colleagues, and actively participate! Date and time: 18th of September at 4:30-5.15 PM Location: TBA, Kaapelitehdas, Tallberginkatu 1 00180 Helsinki Access with Dare to Learn -ticket! |
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City of Helsinki & Dare to Learn warmly welcomes Dare to Learn’s international guests to Helsinki City Hall reception on 18th of September! The event is hosted by the Deputy Mayor of Education, Pia Pakarinen. Come to meet and mingle! During the reception, small snacks and bubbly will be served on the behalf of city of Helsinki (free of charge).
Access with Dare to Learn -ticket, registration is needed. |
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HEI Schools invites you to visit and experience the recently opened HEI Ruoholahti preschool! Come take a look at what a Finnish preschool looks like and talk to Finnish ECE professionals. You are also welcome to join an inspiring Candy Play creative workshop hosted by Kukka-Maaria Kiuru.
HEI Ruoholahti is just steps away from the Dare to Learn venue. More information: On the facebook event |
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This year Suomen Ekonomit (Finnish Business School Graduates) is proud to celebrate the 20 years path of Opetuspalkinto (Teaching Award). The award is given yearly to an active teacher or a group of active teachers in one of the Finnish Business Schools who the students have suggested to be awarded for their support in learning. Until this year, over 30 teachers have been awarded for their work in the field! This year, the two decades old award as well as all the precious work done by the teachers will be celebrated with the previous winners as well as active teachers and students in business education in a memorable way as part of the Dare to Learn event. And of course, the winner for the award in 2018 will be there!
Invitation only. |
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September 18: EduImpact Venture Capital: EdTech in Finland – the emerging invest opportunity |
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Is education technology the next big investment theme in 2020's? Will the next unicorns in education sector emerge from Europe? What is genuine impact in education sector? This event explores the field of education as an investment opportunity.
Access with invitation only. |
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Welcome to an interactive learning workshop! We will try to discover how teal principles can help people learn in organizations and in the work-life. Workshop is hosted by Teal Suomi.
Our idea is as follows: At the moment people long for a place to learn together, to transform the old paradigms and to accelerate the birth and growth of new kinds of organizations. We wish to support collective learning through wholeness, self-organized people and purposeful societies. Workshop topics include: What are “third spaces”, informal learning spaces? How to get the benefits out of these - in your daily practice and in organizations? Free access for everyone - high fives for everyone with Dare to Learn badges. More information on Facebook event page. |
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Are you passionate working with people? Join us for a glass of sparkling and share your best practices. Come with us to Tony’s Deli for sharing ideas, thoughts and those insights you got from Dare to Learn. Take this opportunity to meet other mind-liked people and to learn more about how to work effectively with people and help them to achieve their goals.
Place: Tony’s Deli, Bulevardi 7 Time: 18 th of September, 18.00; 6PM What: Sparkling and great ideas Why: Because sharing ideas is the best! Access with Dare to Learn -ticket, Register here! |
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September 19: Facilitating Learning
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The role of the teacher or trainer is changing to a facilitative one. We must shift our focus from transferring knowledge to facilitating learning. Join this interactive workshop to learn how facilitation can transform teaching and training.
Objective To learn how to facilitate learning and an original Finnish facilitation method For whom Learning professionals who want to understand the core of facilitation better and to learn new methods By whom By Grape People, a Finnish pioneer in Facilitation training and methods More info and registration Click here |
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Have you been at Dare to Learn? Come to this open meetup and share your thoughts and learnings with your edtech peers! Anyone interested in edtech is warmly welcomed. If you missed the conference this time, come over and hear how’s it been and what others learned. After the reflection part, everyone is welcome to the official Dare to Learn afterparty!
Register here! |
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September 19: Scandinavian GESA
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The Scandinavian GESA, the regional semi-finals of the Global EdTech Startup Awards (GESA), is hosted by Dare to Learn at Kaapelitehdas
Read more here! |
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Do you want to be part of Helsinki Learning week?
If you would like to join us creating the Helsinki Learning Week for the first time, do not hesitate to contact us:
finland@easyfairs.com
info@daretolearn.fi
finland@easyfairs.com
info@daretolearn.fi