NELLIP – Finnish report Omnia, Kati Valtonen

THE ELL IN FINLAND  The Finnish National Board of Education in charge of the awards  Awards are based on the European Commission’s priorities, but during the last years also on the national criteria  Applications in every spring, ceremony in November  A language teacher and a language learner of the year also awarded

The Label Campaigns  Publication of bulletins  Use of ing lists and newsletters  Contacts to schools and training institutions  Organisation of the ceremony  Press releases, FNBE’s website  Invitations to seminars and training sessions  European database  Initiatives’ own activity (application => dissemination)

Priorities  European Commission’s priorities: Language learning in the community Language skills as a preparation for work  National priority in 2011: Diversification of languages on offer Awarded initiatives in Finland in 2011: –Kielitivoli, City of Hämeenlinna (awarded) –Kielireppu, City of Turku (honor) –The school of Hakalehto in Raasepori (honor)

Awarding the ELL in Finland  28 awarded language projects  School section: 21  Adult section: 3  Vocational education and training: 2  University: 1

Themes Intercultural awareness Diversification of languages on offer CLIL Minority languages Multicultural comprehension

Languages  Swedish: 17 initiatives  English: 16 initiatives  German: 13 initiatives  French: 12 initiatives  Finnish as a second language: 5 initiatives

Impact and exploitation of the ELL  To obtain national ( and European) recognition for the project  Dissemination  To share good practices and project results  Project’s impact on minority target groups / languages  To enhance multicultural approaches  To promote the project results to new areas / training procedures  To enlarge the networks on a national / international level

Best practices  The Language Circus, 2011  Teaching Chinese, 2010  Ready Study Go! 2008  Place of work as a learning environment for Finnish, 2009  The needs of the target group addressed in an innovative and succesful way  Diversity of languages on offer  Quality of results: innovation, originality and sustainability  Transferability of the results

Recommendations  A clear idea of the need: a needs analysis  Target groups / local strategies  Direction’s understanding and support  Project team: motivation, time, enthousiasm, coordination  Concrete resourses: time and money  Good network  Dissemination and implementation plan to be made in the beginning of the project  For the FNBE: A permanent and up-to-date internet site for the dissemination purposes

THANK YOU! Project team in Omnia: Kati Valtonen (author, coordination) Minnie Rasila (research, contacts)