Aurora Entrepreneurialis Teacher Training

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. 

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• Video Lectures 
• Pre-assignment Quiz 

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.

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• Video Lecture
• Pre-assignment Quiz

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.

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• Pre-assignment Quiz
• Video lecture with Ulrika Persson-Fischier
  Presentation in Swedish: https://youtu.be/lyrcN4J0rAI
  Presentation in English: https://youtu.be/5yI2gN1XU0o
  Presentation in Finnish: https://youtu.be/syukU-iDmhQ

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. 

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• Video Lecture
• Pre-assignment Quiz

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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• Video Lecture
• Pre-assignment Quiz

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If you wish to join the course or individual seminars, please sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/4hrYZXcv9F

Aurora Entrepreneurialis is run by City of Oulu, Ung Företagsamhet Norrbotten and Lappia, it is financed by Interreg Aurora, Region Norrbotten and Lapin Liitto. 

You can find us on Youtube and on Instagram.

For more information about the project, contact Linda Strandenhed, linda.strandenhed@ungforetagsamhet.se or at +4670 724 74 44