Join our upcoming free webinar“Practical STEAM examples from Finland ” on Tuesday 9th June at 1:00 PM GMT.
Discover how to bring STEAM and sustainability meaningfully into your teaching. This session explores how the national curriculum can provide a strong foundation for interdisciplinary learning that prepares students for the future. STEAM education expert and trainer Sari Hirvasniemi, will introduce practical approaches to STEAM education and sustainability, sharing inspiring ways to integrate interdisciplinary learning, creativity, and real-world problem-solving into everyday teaching.
You will gain a clear understanding of how to plan effective STEAM projects, from initial ideas to practical implementation in the classroom. The webinar also introduces a project, offering a concrete real-world example of how STEAM principles can be used to create sustainable solutions. Through this case, participants will see how theory connects with practice and how students can engage with authentic, impactful challenges. In addition, the session focuses on assessment, providing practical strategies for evaluating STEAM projects. Special attention is given to creativity, which plays a central role in innovation and problem-solving. You will learn how to recognize, support, and assess creativity in student work. This webinar offers both inspiration and practical tools, helping educators foster creativity, critical thinking, and sustainability awareness in their classrooms while confidently guiding students through engaging STEAM learning experiences.
A recording will be available for a limited time if the time zone doesn’t work for you. Warmly welcome!
Join our upcoming webinar, “How to Activate Your Students,” on March 25th at 2:00 PM GMT. How can you support students who seem passive? According to the modern concept of learning, learning demands students’ own activity. This webinar offers new ideas and practical examples of adding more participatory teaching methods to your teaching.
Using activating teaching methods has many benefits: they enhance learning, engage different types of learners, and help create a positive classroom atmosphere. Our pedagogical director Johanna Järvinen‑Taubert will share how Finnish teachers plan their lessons to better engage students and what kinds of participatory methods are commonly used in Finnish classrooms.
A recording will be available for a limited time if the time zone doesn’t work for you. Warmly welcome!
Join our upcoming webinar, Introduction to Finnish ECEC on Thursday 19th February 2026 at 3:00 PM GMT. In Finland, early childhood education forms the cornerstone of a lifelong journey of learning and quality education. In Finland, a stress-free childhood is highly valued. Early childhood education follows a relaxed approach, emphasizing play and activities that align with children’s natural development, rather than adopting a traditional, school-like structure.
Despite this relaxed, non-academic style, Finnish early childhood education effectively fosters exceptional learning skills in children. How is this achieved? Finnish early childhood education specialist, Elena Chukhlantseva, provides an insightful introduction to the fundamentals of Finland’s early education system.
Recording available for a limited time if the time zone doesn’t work for you. Warmly welcome!
Join our upcoming webinar “Phenomenon-based learning in Finland” on December 3th 2025 at 2:00 PM GMT. Discover the spirit of Finnish education in this webinar on phenomenon‑based pedagogy. Explore how real‑world themes, curiosity, and collaboration come together to inspire deeper learning and inclusion, with practical insights you can bring into your own teaching. You will also have an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the webinar from the Finnish education expert, Kati Keski-Mäenpää, who is hosting this webinar.
Recording available for a limited time if the time zone doesn’t work for you. Warmly welcome!
Join our upcoming webinar “How to Motivate Your Students” on October 28th 2025 at 2:00 PM GMT. According to research, students’ motivation is high during the first years of school, but it declines over time. How can we maintain and wake up students’ motivation? In this webinar, we will explore various practical ways to inspire students and encourage them to take responsibility for their own learning. You will also have an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the webinar from the Finnish education expert, Kati Keski-Mäenpää, who is hosting this webinar.
Recording available for a limited time if the time zone doesn’t work for you. Warmly welcome!
Join out upcoming webinar Cornerstones of Finnish Education on Thursday, 18th September at 1:00 PM GMT. Our pedagogical director Johanna Järvinen-Taubert will share insights of the key points of Finnish education: stress-free approach, equality and equity, trusting the teachers etc. Jump in and find out what makes Finnish education so special!
Recording available for a limited time if the time zone doesn’t work for you. Warmly welcome!
We are running a series of webinars once a month. Join our upcoming webinar, ‘Assessment Promoting Learning,’ on Wednesday, May 11, at 2:00 PM GMT.
In the Finnish basic education curriculum, assessment is seen as a process that guides and encourages learning. The primary goal of assessment is to support the student’s learning, which is reflected in the diverse assessment methods and the emphasis on formative assessment.
PhD Kati Keski-Mäenpää will host a free webinar on “Assessment promoting learning” on May 14th at 1:00 PM GMT. In this webinar, we will explore the assessment methods and objectives of Finnish basic education through practical, real-world examples. We will, for example, explore examples of self-assessment and peer assessment.
Recording available for a limited time if the time zone doesn’t work for you. Warmly welcome!
We are running a series of webinars once a month. Join our upcoming webinar, “How to Activate Your Students,” on Tuesday, November 26th at 1:00 PM GMT. How can you support students who seem passive? According to the modern concept of learning, learning demands students’ own activity. This webinar offers new ideas and practical examples of adding more participatory teaching methods to your teaching.
Using activating teaching methods has many benefits: they enhance learning, engage different types of learners, set a positive classroom atmosphere etc. In this free online webinar you will learn how Finnish teachers plan their lessons so that they can engage their students better and what kind of participatory teaching methods Finnish teachers frequently use.
If you are interested in making your lessons more engaging, jump in and learn more!
Recording is available for a limited time, if the time zone is not doable for you. Warmly welcome!
Finland will show educational tools, applications and platforms to support learning in Chilean schools and other countries in the region.
The free event will bring together exhibitors from Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Finland and Chile. It is organized by Plus Finland and OTIC Proforma and sponsored by the Embassy of Finland in Santiago and Business Finland.
Attendees will be able to learn about Latin America school experiences. The health emergency forced the world’s schools to adapt learning methodologies, and along the way, teachers had to promote new forms of teaching, an issue that has brought an overload of the educational system.
Education faces great challenges and Finland has thought about how to respond with multiple solutions, with an adaptable, flexible and technological nature, which have served to face the pandemic in many countries of the world. Many of these experiences have been transferred to regions of the world, to countries like Chile. In the country and in other nations of the continent there are testimonies of Finnish education that have had a positive impact on local schools.
Sharing these stories and challenges is the objective of the free Webinar of Latin American Finnish Educational Experiences, which will take place next Wednesday, August 26 at 9:30, organized by Plus Finland, together with OTIC Proforma.
The Finnish experience
“The Finnish experience has a lot to contribute and this is a great opportunity to promote Finnish tools,” says Katariina Tervakangas, from the Finnish Embassy in Chile.
“It is an opportunity to promote solutions within reach, in an effort so that teachers have opportunities to see education in perspective, other experiences that can contribute to their training and consequently to their students.“
“We look for ways in such a way that teachers, assistants, educators or principals do not have to pay to be better,” points out Francisco Moreno, founding partner of Plus Finland, a company of intelligent educational solutions, inspired by the successful Finnish education model and that is in the Register of Experts of Business Finland, one of the main actors in the development of the Finnish educational sector in Chile.
OTIC Proforma works actively in the development of people, providing efficient advice on the correct use of the Tax Franchise for training. “Today we are interested in bringing these issues that will allow our education partners to participate and commit to making real changes to the current educational model in our country,” says Claudio Muñoz from OTIC Proforma. In the activity there will be 10 exhibitors of various nationalities, including Finland, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile. Some platforms in Spanish made in Finland Mightifier and Lesson App are two intelligent platforms that are testing their versions in Spanish in Chile and that work hand in hand with the Finnish Classroom Program of Plus Finland. Teachers can have their versions for free.
Lesson App has had a huge reception in Spanish-speaking schools, as a support tool for teachers, since it allows them to plan their classes using modern and innovative methodologies and structures, regardless of where they are. “We are very happy and proud to be part of the online seminar with Plus Finland. It is very exciting to penetrate new realities like the Chilean one”. “We hope this tool helps in the teacher’s daily work at school. The basic version of this professional development tool is free and with the Premium version, users have access to more specific features and functions, such as distance learning, ”says Ellimaija Ahonen from Lesson App.
