Picture: Laura Vanzo
Spend a Week in Tampere
DKG International Conference – Tampere, Finland July 26-29, 2023
Photo: Laura Vanzo
DKG International Conference in Tampere, Tampere Hall, Finland 2023
Moving forward with vitality, relevance and sustainability in our changing world!
Opportunities, Contributions, Impact – Debbie LeBlanc, DKG President
Schedule at a Glance
Moving forward with vitality, relevance and sustainability in our changing world!
Opportunities, Contributions, Impact – Debbie LeBlanc, DKG President
Schedule at a Glance
The Speakers
Minna Huotilainen
Photo: Otavamedia/Kari Hautala 2016
Professor Minna Huotilainen
University of Helsinki
Department of Educational Sciences
Minna Huotilainen works as the professor of education and as a brain researcher at Helsinki University. She applies the latest findings of neurosciences especially for the development of working life. She is well known for her skills to popularize scientific knowledge.
Her special fields include research areas such as neurosciences, music, perception, aging, magnetoencephalography (MEG), cognitive science and learning research.
She is a very distinguished speaker at international and Finnish conferences in education.
She has had and has a number of international collaboration projects. Her research production and publications are very impressive – 242 professional publications and her work also consists of supervision of doctoral students as well as running the international master’s degree programme Changing Education. Her collaboration projects include, e.g., European, Canadian and US universities.
Her educational background is interesting since she is an engineer and Doctor of Technology, which has evidently brought new approaches to educational research with neuroscience.
researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/minna-huotilainen
Here a video link of professor Huotilainen’s talks about the neuroscience of stress.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DG5gZbkIoM
And an interview with professor Huotilainen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA5jCQ5OLck
Kaisa Laaksonen
Photo: Jenni Niemelä-Nyrhinen
Ms Kaisa Laaksonen, MEd, MA, (1977)
Kaisa Laaksonen has been working as the director of the Finnish Institute for Children’s Literature since 2017. She has studied educational sciences and Finnish literature and is writing her doctoral thesis on children’s picture books at the University of Turku at the moment.
The Finnish Institute for Children’s Literature is the only specialist organization on children’s and youth literature, and it upkeeps the only special library in this field in Finland.
Ms Kaisa Laaksonen participates in planning and implementation of projects on children’s and youth literature, developing reading skills and research work.
lastenkirjainstituutti.fi/in-english
She has said: “Children’s literature involves everything: possibilities for wild adventures, feelings and experiences. Good reading skills are the basis for all learning. As the director of the Institute, I want to promote children’s literature together with many other professional and influence so that books will be an important part of every Finnish child’s every-day life.”
Kaisa Laaksonen has published scientific and several other publications on children’s and youth literature. She has been an active participant both in Finnish and international professional networks and conferences and given presentations in her special expertise area. She has also been the chair in the jury in 2020 when choosing the best children’s and youth book of the
year.
Sirpa Holmström
Photo: Nina Rodionoff, Edufi
Ms Sirpa Holmström, MA.
Head of Unit, Internationalisation Services for General Education and Adult Education
Finnish National Agency for Education
Sirpa Holmström is head of unit for Internationalisation Services for General and Adult Education at the Finnish National Agency for Education (Edufi). The unit is Erasmus+ national agency for school and adult education sectors in Finland. Sirpa Holmström has worked in international education for more than 20 years in higher and vocational education.
She has experience in leading an international office and research, development and innovation services, in strategy development, partnership and network development in and outside Europe, international project work and management and mobility of students and staff. Her expertise covers the main areas of the Erasmus+ program.
Her educational background includes a Master´s degree in German and English languages, management, administration and educational science at the Tampere University. She is a qualified vocational teacher. She has worked abroad and studied at the University of Heidelberg in Germany and the University of Klagenfurt in Austria.
Sirpa Holmström is enthusiastic about international education and opportunities that cooperation across borders offers. She has written several articles on intercultural work and student mobility.
www.linkedin.com/in/sirpajholmstr%C3%B6m/?originalSubdomain=fi
Ulla Häggblom
Photo: TAMK arkisto
Dr. Ulla Häggblom, Bioproduct Engineering
Sustainability Actions in Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Education plays an important role in developing experts, professionals and decision-makers for building a new, sustainable future. Finland has been recognized internationally as one of the world's leading countries in circular economy education.
In Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) sustainability actions are vital in many degree programs, individual study courses and in several projects. Various bio and circular economy projects cover from alternative raw materials to for example textile and food waste. The projects have been successfully collaborated between multidisciplinary teams from the education and company members. In addition to faculty members, students also have a lot to contribute to R&D activities. It's always amazing to see the motivation of the students and what they can achieve in projects. TAMK has a good reputation as a project partner both nationally and internationally. The target is to build an even stronger network with strategic higher education partners and companies to provide future experts the tools they need to build a sustainable future and new business.
Carita Prokki
Photo: Saara Lehtonen, TAMK
Director, Dr Carita Procki
Business Operations
Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Teachers for the Future – Experiences and Ideas.
Throughout the last ten years me and my team in Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) have travelled around the globe promoting the importance of teacher and school management trainings for the 21 st Century. During this expedition it became clear that independent of the level of the education in general the view how learning is organized and understood is mostly teacher centered and student passive. This model seems to be deeply rooted to our minds. Teachers for the Future as a topic will challenge our view of the role of the teacher and the student in the vital modern societies. We will steer our minds towards learning centeredness and active student orientation.
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