The Project
The journey
Conclusions
TallinnLearning from ON BOARD
Capturing learning and achievements from the Educational Innovation Network transfer experience.
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
The ON BOARD Project
The Educational Innovation Network (EIN) is ON BOARD Good Practice, a city project developed by Viladecans (Spain) that fosters innovation in education by promoting cooperation among local stakeholders: public administrations, teachers, students, families, businesses and other members of the community. ON BOARD is an URBACT Programme Transfer Network co-financed by the ERDF to support cities sharing the knowledge and the experience based on Viladecans’ Educational Innovation Network (EIN) so it can be adapted and transferred to other EU cities. ON BOARD has provided the opportunity to cities to exchange and learn from each other’s education initiatives and experiences. .
The Project
The journey
Conclusions
02
'The Educational Innovation Network supports an opportunity to reinforce cooperation among all public and private stakeholders in the education community. Involving partners and connecting learning with "real life" shapes enterprising attitude of children, makes learning more interesting and develops students skills and knowledge for working life'
Vadim Belobrovtsev, Debuty Mayor for Education, Tallinn
The Project
The journey
Conclusions
A learning community of education innovators
The URBACT Local Group (ULG) has been created to boost the process of adapting the Educational Innovation Network in the local context with a 360º education vision: everyone educates all the time and everywhere. It is a group of local agents representing Tallinn Education Department, Tallinn Sports and Youth Department, Tallinn City Enterprise Department, Tallinn City Strategy Unit, 4 Schools, 4 Kindergartens, 1 Vocational School, Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Parents’ Councils, Students’ Councils and 3 Youth Centres
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
The journey
What difficulties did we encounter?
What was expected?
What have we achieved?
Key Learnings
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
It was expected that Educational Innovation Network would:
Improve cooperation between schools, families, companies, entities and the Council Strengthen collaboration of different municipal Departments for Education Increase employability of the young by means of encouraging joint projects between the University, institutions of professional higher education, vocational schools and enterprises Make vocational schools more attractive and labour market oriented Develop students’ entrepreneurship skills.
What was expected?
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
COVID-19, to find the leader(s) who could organize meetings and events to share experiences and find ideas for future cooperation.
Barriers & Difficulties
What difficulties did we encounter?
Creating and motivating new teams during COVID-19 epidemic situation.
Expanding cooperation: As currently there is mainly cooperation within the district and not across the City.
Time resource: not enough human and time resources to cope with the transfer activity.
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
ON BOARD method of exchange and learning has helped to develop the EIN in Tallinn in many ways:
Education is not only formal education in schools and kindergartens, but the city as a whole, with all its actors, is a holistic learning environment, and schools are part of the local community.
What have we achieved?
The main idea is changing mindset that education is not school-centred.
Educational institutions are cooperating more with each other.
Youth centers are more involved.
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
Stakeholders involved
- Tallinn Education Department
- Tallinn Sports and Youth Department
- Tallinn City Enterprise Department
- Tallinn City Strategy Unit
- 4 Schools
- 4 Kindergartens
- 1 Vocational School
- Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Parents Councils
- Students Councils
- 3 Youth Centres
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
Schools
Key Learnings
'The topic of Swedish brain research is close to our heart and we would like more information on it. A proposal to invite a lecturer from Halmstad University to Tallinn to talk about this experience' Kristina Johannes and Rita Juhanson
'In career training - bring students out more, not invite lecturers to school. Provide more information on new occupations and learning opportunities' Anželika Kahro
'For me, the focus was on the community and the importance of community collaboration' Aliide-Marie Taela
'I believe that I also gained knowledge, but I have not realized it. Above all, I just got ideas and thoughts' Õnnela, Leedo-Küngas
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
Kindergartens and Youth Center
'More targeted use of Vox-pop with the target group in mind. We were able to establish a culture of diplomatic communication between countries' Maili Vaarpu and Marianne Liiv
Key Learnings
'Many interesting experiences and facts came to light through representatives of other countries' Maris Pošlin
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
Tallinn City Enterprise Department
'I received more information about the national program "Enterprising School'
Key Learnings
'Getting more real-life examples of working with young people'
'Find more challenges for young people for independent project-based activities'
'All online-working skills improved'
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
Tallinn City Strategy Unit
Key Learnings
'New ways of learning and teaching children and young people on the example of projects in other cities'
'Bringing the "Enterprising School" program to Tallinn through this project' Reet Nõmmoja
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Key Learnings
'Before the ON BOARD project I had a good general overview on how things are done in schools all over Estonia, when it comes to entrepreneurship education, career education, developing enterprising attitude and how schools cooperate with entrepreneurs. This project gave me opportunity to learn more specifically about Tallinn.' Liisi Haas
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
Factors that enabled the transfer of the Good Practice
Good digital skills
Consistency
Lots of good ideas, previous good relations and experience of cooperation.
Various network meetings where people got to know each other, share good experiences, create contacts. Unfortunately, COVID-19 stopped our real meetings, and there was no longer the kind of synergy between people on the web-meetings that it was in real meetings.
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
Collective learnings
New approaches and mindsets towards education.
Collaboration methods in education.
Communication tools and channels for collaboration in education.
Roles that non-teaching stakeholders can play in local education.
Conclusions
The journey
The Project
What have been the transfer results? What has been a success? What would you recommend? What would you do different?
Conclusions
The journey
The Project
What have been the transfer results?
The departments of our city cooperate much more with each other. A good relationship has been established, which is now being relied on. Educational institutions in our districts are also cooperating more.
Tallinn schools can now join the nationwide educational programme “Enterprising School”. This is an educational program that is directed towards the integration of enterprising learning into the school system in order to improve the quality of education and thereby increase young people’s success in life.
The “Enterprising school“ network was not possible to happen in Tallinn before the ON BOARD project, but in order to make the environmental project clear to the city authorities and importance to develop co-operation, the city decided to support the activity.
Conclusions
The journey
The Project
What has been a success?
Educational institutions are cooperating more with each other. Youth centers are more involved.
Change of mindset that education is not school-centred.
Conclusions
The journey
The Project
What would you recommend?
In Tallinn, everyone considered networking very important and we would recommend that all countries do so. People liked the network's meetings and seminars. There was a lot more cooperation with each other. New contacts and ideas emerged, many best practices (including international ones) were shared.
Stakeholders don’t have their own budget for the events in this project (for implementing pilot projects) and there they might take this as a “real” project. One solution is to allocate a proportion of the budget to participating entities to finance their pilot projects events.
Conclusions
The journey
The Project
What would you do different?
Put more pressure on the political level and involve the district governments. The success of the network depends on setting clear goals from the outset and giving the stakeholders a better understanding that their initiative is to carry out different activities.
People didn't like the afternoons of local meetings - I would schedule meetings in the first half of the day and give more time to communicate with each other.
More efficient communications. We should think better and more about clearer messages and targeting. We focused on what to do, but we were a bit out of focus on how to do it.
Conclusions
The journey
The Project
The future
The EIN in 2030
'VISION - By 2030, instead of the current 3 city districts, co-operation will operate in all 8 city districts and many city-wide events will take place. Different partners come to us to learn how to work together in the community.'
Katrin Parve, URBACT On Board coordinator
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The Project
The journey
Conclusions
TallinnLearning from ON BOARD
Capturing learning and achievements from the Educational Innovation Network transfer experience.
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
The ON BOARD Project
The Educational Innovation Network (EIN) is ON BOARD Good Practice, a city project developed by Viladecans (Spain) that fosters innovation in education by promoting cooperation among local stakeholders: public administrations, teachers, students, families, businesses and other members of the community. ON BOARD is an URBACT Programme Transfer Network co-financed by the ERDF to support cities sharing the knowledge and the experience based on Viladecans’ Educational Innovation Network (EIN) so it can be adapted and transferred to other EU cities. ON BOARD has provided the opportunity to cities to exchange and learn from each other’s education initiatives and experiences. .
The Project
The journey
Conclusions
02
'The Educational Innovation Network supports an opportunity to reinforce cooperation among all public and private stakeholders in the education community. Involving partners and connecting learning with "real life" shapes enterprising attitude of children, makes learning more interesting and develops students skills and knowledge for working life'
Vadim Belobrovtsev, Debuty Mayor for Education, Tallinn
The Project
The journey
Conclusions
A learning community of education innovators
The URBACT Local Group (ULG) has been created to boost the process of adapting the Educational Innovation Network in the local context with a 360º education vision: everyone educates all the time and everywhere. It is a group of local agents representing Tallinn Education Department, Tallinn Sports and Youth Department, Tallinn City Enterprise Department, Tallinn City Strategy Unit, 4 Schools, 4 Kindergartens, 1 Vocational School, Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Parents’ Councils, Students’ Councils and 3 Youth Centres
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
The journey
What difficulties did we encounter?
What was expected?
What have we achieved?
Key Learnings
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
It was expected that Educational Innovation Network would:
Improve cooperation between schools, families, companies, entities and the Council Strengthen collaboration of different municipal Departments for Education Increase employability of the young by means of encouraging joint projects between the University, institutions of professional higher education, vocational schools and enterprises Make vocational schools more attractive and labour market oriented Develop students’ entrepreneurship skills.
What was expected?
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
COVID-19, to find the leader(s) who could organize meetings and events to share experiences and find ideas for future cooperation.
Barriers & Difficulties
What difficulties did we encounter?
Creating and motivating new teams during COVID-19 epidemic situation.
Expanding cooperation: As currently there is mainly cooperation within the district and not across the City.
Time resource: not enough human and time resources to cope with the transfer activity.
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
ON BOARD method of exchange and learning has helped to develop the EIN in Tallinn in many ways:
Education is not only formal education in schools and kindergartens, but the city as a whole, with all its actors, is a holistic learning environment, and schools are part of the local community.
What have we achieved?
The main idea is changing mindset that education is not school-centred.
Educational institutions are cooperating more with each other.
Youth centers are more involved.
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
Stakeholders involved
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
Schools
Key Learnings
'The topic of Swedish brain research is close to our heart and we would like more information on it. A proposal to invite a lecturer from Halmstad University to Tallinn to talk about this experience' Kristina Johannes and Rita Juhanson
'In career training - bring students out more, not invite lecturers to school. Provide more information on new occupations and learning opportunities' Anželika Kahro
'For me, the focus was on the community and the importance of community collaboration' Aliide-Marie Taela
'I believe that I also gained knowledge, but I have not realized it. Above all, I just got ideas and thoughts' Õnnela, Leedo-Küngas
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
Kindergartens and Youth Center
'More targeted use of Vox-pop with the target group in mind. We were able to establish a culture of diplomatic communication between countries' Maili Vaarpu and Marianne Liiv
Key Learnings
'Many interesting experiences and facts came to light through representatives of other countries' Maris Pošlin
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
Tallinn City Enterprise Department
'I received more information about the national program "Enterprising School'
Key Learnings
'Getting more real-life examples of working with young people'
'Find more challenges for young people for independent project-based activities'
'All online-working skills improved'
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
Tallinn City Strategy Unit
Key Learnings
'New ways of learning and teaching children and young people on the example of projects in other cities'
'Bringing the "Enterprising School" program to Tallinn through this project' Reet Nõmmoja
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Key Learnings
'Before the ON BOARD project I had a good general overview on how things are done in schools all over Estonia, when it comes to entrepreneurship education, career education, developing enterprising attitude and how schools cooperate with entrepreneurs. This project gave me opportunity to learn more specifically about Tallinn.' Liisi Haas
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
Factors that enabled the transfer of the Good Practice
Good digital skills
Consistency
Lots of good ideas, previous good relations and experience of cooperation.
Various network meetings where people got to know each other, share good experiences, create contacts. Unfortunately, COVID-19 stopped our real meetings, and there was no longer the kind of synergy between people on the web-meetings that it was in real meetings.
The journey
Conclusions
The Project
Collective learnings
New approaches and mindsets towards education.
Collaboration methods in education.
Communication tools and channels for collaboration in education.
Roles that non-teaching stakeholders can play in local education.
Conclusions
The journey
The Project
What have been the transfer results? What has been a success? What would you recommend? What would you do different?
Conclusions
The journey
The Project
What have been the transfer results?
The departments of our city cooperate much more with each other. A good relationship has been established, which is now being relied on. Educational institutions in our districts are also cooperating more.
Tallinn schools can now join the nationwide educational programme “Enterprising School”. This is an educational program that is directed towards the integration of enterprising learning into the school system in order to improve the quality of education and thereby increase young people’s success in life.
The “Enterprising school“ network was not possible to happen in Tallinn before the ON BOARD project, but in order to make the environmental project clear to the city authorities and importance to develop co-operation, the city decided to support the activity.
Conclusions
The journey
The Project
What has been a success?
Educational institutions are cooperating more with each other. Youth centers are more involved.
Change of mindset that education is not school-centred.
Conclusions
The journey
The Project
What would you recommend?
In Tallinn, everyone considered networking very important and we would recommend that all countries do so. People liked the network's meetings and seminars. There was a lot more cooperation with each other. New contacts and ideas emerged, many best practices (including international ones) were shared.
Stakeholders don’t have their own budget for the events in this project (for implementing pilot projects) and there they might take this as a “real” project. One solution is to allocate a proportion of the budget to participating entities to finance their pilot projects events.
Conclusions
The journey
The Project
What would you do different?
Put more pressure on the political level and involve the district governments. The success of the network depends on setting clear goals from the outset and giving the stakeholders a better understanding that their initiative is to carry out different activities.
People didn't like the afternoons of local meetings - I would schedule meetings in the first half of the day and give more time to communicate with each other.
More efficient communications. We should think better and more about clearer messages and targeting. We focused on what to do, but we were a bit out of focus on how to do it.
Conclusions
The journey
The Project
The future
The EIN in 2030
'VISION - By 2030, instead of the current 3 city districts, co-operation will operate in all 8 city districts and many city-wide events will take place. Different partners come to us to learn how to work together in the community.'
Katrin Parve, URBACT On Board coordinator