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More than 120 students have had work placement positions abroad

Utbildning Nord is not only a Nordic school but also an international one. Utbildning Nord participates in several international projects. We send our course participants and employees to other countries and also welcome and arrange programmes for people from abroad. Utbildning Nord works with partners and schools in most European countries.

The EU’s programme for vocational education is called Leonardo da Vinci. So far, Utbildning Nord has received funding for a total of 30 Leonardo da Vinci mobility projects. More than 120 students have carried out 4-9 weeks of work placement in Europe. Almost all of the teachers have also undergone a two-week exchange in another European country.

Every year we welcome several groups from Europe. These can consist of students who want to have a work placement period with us, or of teachers, decision makers, business owners etc, who are participating in an EU project.

The internationalisation activities have been financed partly by project funds from the EU.

Opportunity for work placement in another EU country

As a student at Utbildning Nord you can apply for work placement abroad. You can either take part in a Leonardo da Vinci mobility project and get your foreign placement financed by project funds, or you yourself can apply for work placement abroad and finance this with a grant from Utbildning Nord. With the common labour market, it is quite easy to do work placement in another Nordic country.

Anitta Koivuranta coordinates our international projects. You can contact her for more information, tel. +46 70-513 5082.

Current projects

We are currently conducting a Leonardo da Vinci mobility project called European Dimension. In this project, our course participants have work placement periods in Italy, Austria, Iceland and the Czech Republic, thus adding another European dimension to their vocational education.

Utbildning Nord has received funding from the Nordic Council’s mobility and network programme for adult learning, Nordplus Adult, for a week’s exchange with other adult education providers in Norway (Tromsö) and Finland (Mikkeli and Seinäjoki). Teachers at Utbildning Nord took part in the exchange programme in the spring of 2008 in order to acquaint themselves with both Finland's and Norway's vocational examination systems, Finnish vocational examinations and Norwegian "fagbrev".

New projects 2008

The international programme office decided in May 2008 to approve our project application within the Leonardo da Vinci programme and to grant funding for a total of 18 course participants’ work placement in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Austria and the Czech Republic. The project is called Intercultural skills and will be conducted from the autumn of 2008 until the spring of 2010. The length of the work placement is four weeks. We have now applied for four-week placement periods so that course participants with families will also be able to take part.