Polar Partners
- Learning environments
- School concepts
- Teacher training and educational leadership
Polar Partners accelerates the world’s transition to 21st century education - one person, one school and one society at a time.Polar Partners is a one stop shop for premium quality K-12 education with a proven business model. It helps clients in designing, setting up and developing schools based on Finnish education and 21st century skills ideology with its network of 2000+ Finnish pedagogical experts and partners. Polar Partners has over 20 years of experience in education development. Its first Finnish International School (FIS) was opened in Georgia in 2019, and currently more projects are on the way.
Academy of Brain Oy
- Corporate training
- Learning materials and educational technology
- Working life partnerships and competence development
Academy of Brain, a leading soft skills company, helps organizations to effectively meet their strategic upskilling needs with a soft skills content library. Our science-based microlearning content can be used in SCORM-compliant learning platforms and in our own soft skills platform. Our Learning Success Management team helps our clients to get the most out of the learning content by utilizing our learning model FUSE™ and effective Learning Success Management tactics. We serve international companies, that use our trainings in more than 100 countries. Now we are expanding globally by searching for new channel partnerships for reselling purposes.
Sedu Education
- Corporate training
- Educational travel and visits
- Working life partnerships and competence development
Sedu Education is a complete VET powerhouse! It covers several study fields such as forestry, business, machinery, social and health care - altogether dozens of study programmes. Sedu is a forerunner in providing flexible vocational education with strong focus in entrepreneurship and digital tools. It offers tailor-made learning services for students, educators and the world of work. Sedu Education collaborates also in recruitment and provides Finnish language training abroad.
Edusampo
- Corporate training
- Degrees and qualifications
- Working life partnerships and competence development
Edusampo offers up-to date vocational competence building opportunities at Saimaa Vocational College Sampo through a network of international partners around the world. Our top-up qualifications in Social and Health Care, Domestic Services and Restaurant-Catering are designed for international students with suitable backgrounds. Pathway studies cater for students who wish to learn Finnish and apply to Sampo’s wide variety of Finnish-taught programs. Edusampo-online.fi is home to various Finnish learning options either self-taught or attending online lessons. We support diversity and integration in the workplace by offering DEI coaching and Easy Finnish tuition to teams and organizations.
Metropolia
- Degrees and qualifications
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences is the largest in Finland, with over 18,000 students and 1,000 staff. Recognized as a bold reformer and builder of a sustainable future, Metropolia offers diverse programs in health care and social services, business, technology, and culture, equipping graduates to meet real-world challenges. Its three innovation platforms develop solutions for future-proof health, clean and sustainable living, and smart, creative cities. Through global partnerships, tailored training, consultancy, and research, Metropolia channels its expertise to meet partners’ evolving needs worldwide.
CDM Design & Involver Oy
- Learning environments
- School concepts
We are experts in inclusive learning environments. Successful school design is based on the participation of the school users. Pedagogy guides the design of the learning environment. When making changes, it is good to think about the parts of the whole at the same time: how all the activities take place in the premises, how the changes affect the order of lessons. At best, pedagogy, users and facilities are aligned. CDM Involver is a digital participation solution that effectively maps the views of facility users and stakeholders on the new learning environment, teaching methods and pedagogy and commits to change.
Savonia University of Applied Sciences
- Degrees and qualifications
- Teacher training and educational leadership
- Working life partnerships and competence development
Savonia University of Applied Sciences is one of the largest and most versatile Universities of Applied Sciences in Finland. It offers degree programs in six study fields: Engineering, Social and Health Care, Business, Tourism and Hospitality, Natural Resources, and Culture. Savonia develops tailor-made educational services related to degree programs and research areas which include Bioeconomy and Circular Economy, Well-being, Sustainable Society, Engineering and Energy, Food System and Water Safety.
FinnOppi
- Educational travel and visits
- Teacher training and educational leadership
FinnOppi is a sustainable Finnish educational service provider offering customized offline professional development training for educators, educational travel packages for students, and market-oriented online course packages of Finnish early childhood education and care, STEAM Education, entrepreneur education. Sustainable and high-quality Finnish educational content is our core value to the market.
Otava
- Learning materials and educational technology
Otava Publishing Company Ltd is a major Finnish publishing house. It publishes both printed and digital educational materials for a wide range of subjects and for all levels of education. These materials have been one of the reasons behind the Finnish success in the educational field. Otava exports quality learning content and technology also to other countries.
University of Helsinki Centre for Continuing Education HY+
- Educational reforms
- Educational travel and visits
- Teacher training and educational leadership
HY+ offers solutions for customers aiming to enhance their education system or seeking advancement of their professionals’ skills and knowledge. The services, which cover early education, basic education, higher education, and lifelong learning, are based on the academic expertise from the University of Helsinki, the oldest, largest, and highest-ranked higher education institution in Finland. Services include Optimising Education Systems, Consultation of School Development, Extensive Professional Competence Development Programmes, Master Classes, Online Programmes, and Eduvisits (part of the UniVisit concept).
Council for Creative Education - CCE Finland
- Educational travel and visits
- School concepts
- Teacher training and educational leadership
Council for Creative Education (CCE) Finland aims to redefine education through creativity based on research and expertise from Finnish academia. We offer tailored teacher training and CCE Finland school development programs to enhance educational quality with curriculum & pedagogical development with leadership professional development. Finland Education Tours offers the opportunity to experience firsthand the Finnish education system, including school visits and workshops by Finnish experts to educators from 50+ countries. The innovative SISU Box provides educators with a curated selection of toys and learning aids designed to foster creativity, imagination, and holistic development in young learners.
Lahdelma & Mahlamäki architects
- Learning environments
Lahdelma & Mahlamäki architects (LMA) is an internationally acclaimed architecture office especially known for their museum projects and education buildings. Renowned for their deep understanding of the impact of history, location and the human touch, LMA architecture stretches far beyond materiality. The founders, Professor Ilmari Lahdelma and Professor Rainer Mahlamäki, have been working together since the 1980s and they have won over 100 prizes in architecture competitions, which makes LMA one of the most experienced and successful Finnish offices. Their principal works include, for example, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (2013), the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences Myllypuro Campus (2019) and the Kastelli School and Community Centre (2014).
Grape People
- Corporate training
Grape People is a facilitation and leadership training company that specialises in organisational development and behavior change through participation. By training concrete organisational and leadership development methods and tools Grape People helps organisations transform strategies, visions and change programs into concrete action and to boost organisational effectiveness. Grape People has more than 15 years experience helping clients from both the private and public sectors to deliver genuine improvements in performance.
GraphoGame
- Learning materials and educational technology
GraphoGameis a market leader in 6 countries. In Finland, GraphoGame is used by nearly all preschoolers and over 90% of first graders. The app has been downloaded nearly 10 million times globally. GraphoGame is globally the only portfolio of literacy games that have undergone thorough neuropsychology, speech pathology, and psycholinguistics research and validation to ensure all language versions are evidence-based and effective. According to University of Cambridge, GraphoGame is “as effective as 1:1 teacher support in a classroom”. GraphoGame is available in 14 languages. GraphoGame was awarded the UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize in 2023 for our efforts to teach millions of kids to read in their mother tongues. Our offering to schools, includes GraphoGame Data Platform. What sets it apart is the unprecedented insight it provides into the reading process.
FIS Global Oy
- Educational travel and visits
- School concepts
- Teacher training and educational leadership
FIS Global Oy is a Finnish education services company specializing in the international export of Finnish early childhood education expertise. The company provides teacher training, curriculum consulting, and educational study visits related to Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC). FIS Global Oy works with international education partners to support the development of high-quality early childhood programs inspired by Finnish pedagogy, with a particular focus on Vietnam and Southeast Asia.