Finland immersion week
- Sunday Arrival, airport meeting, transfer and accommodation orientation
- Monday–Friday Expert sessions, institutional visits, observation, dialogue and reflection
- Saturday Nature, wellbeing and cultural context
- Sunday Departure
Prime Education FinlandStart your enquiry Sample programme frameworks
Enough structure to imagine it. Enough flexibility to make it yours.
These are not fixed, dated products. They show the questions and learning components PEDU can combine after understanding your institution, participants and intended change.
Illustrative delivery models
Choose the rhythm before we design the detail.
These examples make the practical shape visible. The intellectual focus, experts, institutions and learning methods are always selected around your context.
Prepare online, immerse in Finland
- Shared starting questions and institutional context
- Targeted expert input before travel
- Focused visits and dialogue in Jyväskylä
- A practical follow-through conversation
Nordic and Baltic comparison
- Compare systems without assuming one answer fits all
- Combine Finnish expertise with a second regional perspective
- Useful for leadership, policy and internationalisation teams
- Travel route confirmed only after scope and feasibility review
English and teacher development abroad
- English language and teacher-development programmes
- Possible locations include Dublin, Malta and the United Kingdom
- Designed around participant level, professional purpose and safeguarding
- Coordinated through PEDU with appropriate local providers
Working languages: PEDU can organise programmes in English, Russian, Turkish, Uzbek, Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese and Indonesian through context-aware, language-proficient interpreters and facilitators.
01Finnish education in context
A visit across early childhood, primary, secondary and higher education—connecting visible practice with the society, history and professional culture behind it.
Possible themes and encounters
- Finnish society, educational reforms and the social conditions behind today’s system
- The education pathway from early childhood education and care to higher education
- Teacher education, professional trust, autonomy and the cultural position of teachers
- Curriculum, assessment, self-evaluation and student agency
- ECEC group life, play-based learning, child-centred goals and holistic development
- School and classroom observation followed by structured dialogue with educators
- Libraries, museums, the Jyväskylä campus and changing learning environments
- Nature, wellbeing, reflection and a context-specific capstone idea
The emphasis can be broad for a mixed delegation or concentrated on one education level, institution or development challenge.
Build a programme around your goals
02AI in education
A possible four- or five-day professional-learning journey examining AI as a pedagogical, ethical and institutional question—not simply a collection of tools.
Possible themes and encounters
- What generative AI changes—and does not change—in learning and teaching
- Designing meaningful tasks when students can work with AI
- AI literacy, critical judgement, authorship and academic integrity
- Feedback, assessment and student agency in AI-rich environments
- Practical experimentation with selected tools through a pedagogical lens
- Data, privacy, accessibility, bias and responsible institutional use
- Leadership, staff capability and a realistic institutional development pathway
- A design studio in which participants adapt one idea for their own context
The programme can focus on schools, higher education, teacher education or institutional leadership, with the balance adjusted accordingly.
Build a programme around your goals
03EMI & multilingual education
A research-informed programme for universities developing English-medium instruction while recognising the multilingual realities of teachers, students and disciplines.
Possible themes and encounters
- European language-policy discussions and the role of multilingualism in education
- Constructive alignment between learning outcomes, interaction and assessment
- The relationship between disciplinary knowledge and disciplinary language
- Classroom discourse, participation and language-aware teaching
- Semiotic waves: moving between abstract academic meaning and concrete examples
- Scaffolding complex content without reducing academic expectations
- Feedback and assessment in linguistically diverse classrooms
- Institutional strategy, teacher support and sustainable EMI development
PEDU indicates the areas of inquiry publicly, while the exact learning sequence, contributors and working methods are designed for each institution.
Build a programme around your goals
04Inclusive education in practice
Inclusion is not limited to placing children with diagnosed disabilities in the same room. It asks whether everyday teaching is designed for learner difference from the beginning.
Possible themes and encounters
- The Finnish approach to learning support and special education in everyday school life
- Differentiation as a responsibility in every classroom
- Small changes in instruction, grouping, materials and the learning environment
- Teacher and leadership mindsets that make support possible
- Positive pedagogy, strengths and a learner’s sense of belonging
- Neurodiversity and the variety of attention, communication and sensory needs
- Collaboration between teachers, specialists, families and students
- A practical redesign task based on participants’ own classrooms or institutions
The goal is to move from labels and abstract ideals toward practical choices educators and leaders can examine in their own settings.
Build a programme around your goalsHow tailoring works
The sample is the beginning—not the package.
PEDU confirms the participants, goals, scope, expert contributions, institutional visits, working hours, timing and budget before a programme is agreed. The public examples communicate our areas of expertise without promising the same sequence to every customer.
Start with the PEDU NavigatorOur Finland Network
A Jyväskylä ecosystem for education, expertise and innovation.
PEDU draws on a local network of educational institutions, learning specialists and innovation partners in Jyväskylä.
