Schedule 2024/2025
Session 6: Sustainabilisation – the importance of sustainable entrepreneurship / Mikael Botnen Diamant
2/9/2024, 13:30 – 14:30 CEST Sweden, 14:30 – 15:30 EEST Finland
Mikael Botnen Diamant is a sustainability expert, author, and educator. He has previous experience working with Sida (the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) and the Red Cross. In 2015, Mikael participated as an expert in the negotiations at the UN building in New York that led to Agenda 2030 and the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. The theme of Mikael's lecture is 'sustainabilisation' - a societal transformation as profound as urbanisation, globalisation, and digitalisation. Why are sustainability and sustainable entrepreneurship important for companies and organisations, and why are these important themes for teachers and students to work with? The focus of the seminar will be on practical application of these lessons in the classroom.
Session 7: Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Solutions: Methodology on how to educate future impact entrepreneurs / Anzelika Krastina, Lapland University of Applied Sciences
13/11/2024, 13:30 – 14:30 CET Sweden, 14:30 – 15:30 EET Finland
Anzelika Krastina is a senior lecturer and project manager at the Northern Well-Being and Services Expertise Unit at Lapland University of Applied Sciences. Anzelika has been working with entrepreneurship education, particularly focused on social and sustainable entrepreneurship. Her session will be focused on social entrepreneurship, what challenges and opportunities that social entrepreneurship brings, and what lessons can be learned for entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education. The seminar will focus on how to apply the lessons in practice.
Session 8: Tools for entrepreneurship education / Eemeli Alanne, City of Oulu
9/12/2024, 13:30 – 14:30 CET Sweden, 14:30 – 15:30 EET Finland
In his seminar, Eemeli Alanne delves into practical tools and methods for entrepreneurship education which can be seamlessly integrated into various subjects. Eemeli knows what he's talking about, as he has years of experience in the practical implementation of entrepreneurship education as well as in strategic development work in the City of Oulu, at Nuori Yrittäjyys ry, and at The Children and Youth Foundation. Eemeli has played a key role in creating the new entrepreneurship education strategy for North Ostrobothnia, he is one of the pioneers of the "Työn Taitajat" (Masters of Work) program, and he has also been involved in launching the North Ostrobothnia entrepreneurship education network, Pyrytys.
Schedule 2023/2024
Session 1: Critic, Mindset, Entrecomp & Greencomp / Mats Westerberg, LTU
9/10/2023, 13:30 – 14:30 CEST Sweden, 14:30 – 15:30 EEST Finland
Mats Westerberg is a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Luleå technical university. The focus of the seminar will be on how to apply the frameworks in practice in the classroom.
Session 2: Future skills and working life / Perttu Pölönen
13.11.2023, 08:15 – 09:15 CET Sweden, 09:15 – 10:15 EET Finland
Perttu Pölönen is a futurist, an inventor and an author. He has studied future technologies at Singularity University in Silicon Valley, co-founded a company focused on educational technology in Myanmar, written two books and won EU’s biggest science competition for youth. Here, Perttu proposes a future curriculum. What skills will be needed both in life and in the labour markets of the future?
The focus of the seminar will be to consider how these future skills could be taken into account in teaching.
Session 3: Sustainable entrepreneurship from an educational perspective / Ulrika Persson-Fischier, Uppsala University
24/1 2024 13:30 – 14:30 CET Sweden, 14:30 – 15:30 EET Finland
Ulrika Persson-Fischier is a researcher and teacher at Uppsala University. She is interested in how entrepreneurial competencies can help find solutions for wicked sustainability challenges.
Session 4: Social media and digitalisation in entrepreneurship / Perttu Pölönen
1/3 2024, 08:15 – 09:15 CET Sweden, 09:15 – 10:15 EET Finland
Perttu Pölönen is a futurist, inventor and author. In his second lecture during this seminar series, Perttu discusses social media and digitalisation in entrepreneurship. How does social media affect us and how can we use these technologies in good ways? The focus of the seminar will be to consider how these lessons can be applied in practice.
Session 5: STEAM pedagogy and ToolCamp method in entrepreneurship education / Maikki Manninen & Paula Vorne
25/4 2024, 08:15 – 09:15 CEST Sweden, 09:15 – 10:15 EEST Finland
Maikki Manninen & Paula Vorne lead the STEAM in Oulu programme, organize different kind of design sprints and activities for students and work with local schools to develop their STEAM pedagogy.
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