SKILLOON / Not a Bad Idea
- Educational travel and visits
- Learning environments
- Teacher training and educational leadership
Not a Bad Idea Ltd excels in advancing education by designing and implementing reforms for entities like nations and NGOs, along with training packages for education leaders and professionals. Our Skilloon platform promotes entrepreneurship and essential work life skills, supporting both institutions and individuals towards achieving success. Additionally, we organize international exchange programs and student camps, enhancing global understanding. With vast experience in EU-funded projects and partnerships with major organizations (UN, EU, OECD), we're committed to innovating education for a brighter future. Join us in our mission to empower the next generation of learners and professionals.
GRADIA
- Corporate training
- Degrees and qualifications
- Working life partnerships and competence development
GRADIA is a recognized and awarded large-scale provider of general and vocational education in Finland, with around 20, 000 students, and over 90 qualification programmes. Gradia is determined to share its knowledge and know-how of successful Finnish education system by helping its global partners to develop innovative operational models for improved performance in TVET. Gradia have concluded numerous successful projects all over the world being the first in Finland to provide accredited Finnish vocational and professional qualifications abroad. It offers expertise in entrepreneurship, pedagogical training, developing curricula and working life co-operation in addition to assessment in education in co-operation with its partners.
Aalto University Executive Education
- Corporate training
- Educational travel and visits
- Working life partnerships and competence development
Aalto University Executive Education and Professional Development is part of Aalto University. Through its cooperation with Aalto University, Aalto EE brings a multidisciplinary approach and new, innovative learning methods to develop leaders, experts, and professionals.Aalto EE has two strongholds: our main office and learning facilities are in Helsinki, while our operations in Asia-Pacific are led from Singapore. In addition to Finland and Singapore, Aalto EE offers education programs worldwide.We want to be known for our impactful, goal-oriented, and comprehensive learning experiences throughout an individual’s career by being their preferred platform for lifewide learning. Furthermore, we aim to be a strategic partner for organizations’ continuous learning solutions solving competence development needs in a rapidly changing business environment with a combination of the latest research and contextual insights.Aalto EE is an internationally recognized executive education and professional development organization. As a part of Aalto University, we hold the 'Triple Crown' of accreditations, the three most respected business university accreditations granted to only 1% of the world's business schools: AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS.
LessonApp
- Learning materials and educational technology
LessonApp is an innovative mobile tool for teachers to design, store and share their lessons. The background is in Finnish education excellence. LessonApp provides research-based pedagogical knowledge, an easy-to-apply model to create meaningful lesson structures and hundreds of well-instructed teaching methods which are used by Finnish teachers every day in classrooms. LessonApp offers the Basic version of the tool free of charge. Language versions available!
Vegemi
- Learning environments
- Learning materials and educational technology
Vegemi is a science-based education programme for children aged 3–11 that promotes wellbeing through healthy eating, nutrition awareness, microbiome health, and sustainability. At its core is “Vegemi,” a friendly stomach bacterium who gains strength from fruits and vegetables, engaging children in a playful, gamified journey. The programme supports early years and primary curricula with ready-to-use classroom activities, digital tools, and a gamified app. Rooted in behavioural science and co-designed with educators, Vegemi integrates wellbeing into literacy, numeracy, science, and sustainability, empowering children to develop healthier food habits while achieving core academic objectives.
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.
Code School Finland
- Educational travel and visits
- Learning materials and educational technology
- Teacher training and educational leadership
Code School Finland revolutionises the way K-12 schools prepare their students for the future. Our award-winning AI curriculum and teacher professional development courses guarantee AI literacy for students of all ages. Our teaching materials are based on academic research and the Finnish educational model allowing everyone to share the success of one of the world’s best systems. The AI Curriculum aligns with the learning objectives of international curricula ensuring seamless implementation in schools around the globe.With our help any teacher can teach coding, robotics and AI, regardless of their academic background and experience.
Tiimiakatemia Global
- Learning materials and educational technology
Tiimiakatemia Global is a training and consulting company that trains professional team coaches. It has been established in 1993 by teamwork, team coaching and team learning experts. The mission of Tiimiakatemia Global is to boldly coach team coaches. They are professionals who have the knowledge, skills, attitudes and experiences to coach individuals, teams and communities to work and learn together. To certify the competencies of team coaches the company trains, Tiimiakatemia Global upkeeps and develops team coaches’ competency certification system. The company offers both short and long-term coaching programs to progressive and inspired professionals from educational and business worlds. Also, the company consults organizations to use team coaching methods and develop as learning organizations.
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.
Karelia University of Applied Sciences
- Corporate training
- Degrees and qualifications
- Working life partnerships and competence development
Karelia UAS is a multidisciplinary, widely connected, international and innovative higher education organisation offering bachelor and master degrees. Karelia curricula may be constantly personalized based on each student’s own preferences and learning needs. Learning approach relies on work-based pedagogy and is implemented in a close collaboration with prospective employers. The study fields are health care and social studies, business, engineering, forestry, media and hospitality management. Karelia UAS plays a key role in the regional, and many national and international research, development and innovation (RDI) activities, and provides customers’ value-oriented and co-creative approaches in global education services. Karelia UAS is a member of INVEST European University Alliance.
Turku University of Applied Sciences
- Educational reforms
- Educational travel and visits
- Teacher training and educational leadership
Turku UAS is an innovative and multidisciplinary higher education in the fields of technology, business, health and arts. Turku UAS provides tailored education solutions, consulting services and educational visits. In addition, Turku UAS offers versatile research, development and innovation services. At the core of all Turku UAS activities is innovation pedagogy, Innopeda®, a unique pedagogical strategy developed at Turku UAS. Innopeda ® refers to an approach to learning that corresponds to the needs of working life while emphasising RDI expertise.
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.
Lumo Education
- Educational reforms
- School concepts
- Teacher training and educational leadership
Lumo Education offers tailored kindergarten and school concepts based on the Finnish educational model. Together with their partner Internation Schools Services (iss.edu), Lumo Education offers K to 12 international school concept combining the best practices from the Finnish and American education model with over 60 years of experience in international education and more than 110 schools launched and managed.
Satakunta University of Applied Sciences SAMK
- Degrees and qualifications
- Educational travel and visits
- Learning environments
Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, SAMK, is a multidisciplinary, internationally oriented university of approximately 6,000 students from 100 countries. SAMK is located on the west coast of Finland, in the Satakunta region. In its operating area, it is a significant creator of experts as well as a developer, a propeller of internationalisation and a promoter of entrepreneurship. SAMK offers both Bachelor's and Master's Degree Programmes taught in English. At SAMK you can study to become an expert in business, engineering, health care, and tourism.
Savo Vocational College - SAKKY
- Learning environments
- Learning materials and educational technology
- Working life partnerships and competence development
SAKKY is one of the biggest vocational education providers in Finland having 70 IVET study programs and ca. 100 further and specialist vocational qualifications. We are a forerunner in sustainable education and have been audited and certified for our sustainable educational culture and operations. It is our mission to enhance green skills in VET education. Further, we provide expertise in modernizing teaching and learning environments, reinforcing the role of digitalization and innovation in the field of vocational education. SAKKY’s students represent over 50 nationality and we take part in numerous global professional networks. Our international community and networks are growing fast – we welcome you to join our mission for a green and digital future.