This morning we started early with a visit at the Nokia headquarters. There was a power point presentation about how Nokia works together with a lot of universities en invites students to participate in problem solving. Nokia offers professional guidance for the groups and facilities them with hardware.
Afterward students told the same, full enthusiasm, about that projects. They even earned a lot of credits and money with their project. But the most important was however that they learned a lot in those cooperation projects.
We also visited Tampere College a printing and publishing school. The school facilities was excellent compared with Dutch schools for vocational education. There we had tour of the school and a presentation of the Finnish education. See scheme below.
Today was the most exciting part the HUB. A HUB, Amsterdam and Utrecht also have hubs, are groups of entrepreneurs who unite themselves into a hub to share knowledge, exchange ideas and inspire each other. An enthusiastic, youthful director explained to us the benefit of HUB `s informal groups of entrepreneurs: setting up a workspace and hire each other quickly, find your question, contribute and share with others.
It was again obvious that there is great emphasis on collaboration with companies and other schools at home and abroad.
What we saw was:
- Entrepreneurship is pushed and integrated into the school curricula by doing jobs for companies in order to seek for solutions for companies and business problems.
- New ideas from outside come in through meetings, breakfasts, seminars, networking meetings.
It is an attitude which Noorderpoort students and teachers should pay more attention to. The argument was quite practical: you need other people and organisations to solve the problems and big questions of the community and the companies. You are at school to learn to make the world a bit better.
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