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Union renewal and development 1 December 2021 OAJ Finland international cooperation: Using own resources to ensure autonomy
In 2019, the Finnish education union OAJ decided to allocate 0.7% of its national budget to development cooperation, supporting its cooperation programmes that span several continents.
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Trade union rights are human rights 27 March 2020 Education unions in Nordic countries join forces with public authorities to fight COVID-19 pandemic
Educators in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden are using well-developed social dialogue channels and information technology to help curb the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Climate action and literacy 4 November 2019 Finland: Leading education event in Nordic countries welcomes international participants
The Trade Union of Education in Finland (OAJ) invites educators from across the world to Educa’s 25th anniversary edition and its first international programme in English on 24 and 25 January in Helsinki.
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Union renewal and development 6 June 2019 Finland: trade unionists take development cooperation work to heart
Confronted with the elimination of government support, the teacher union Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö, one of Education International’s member organisations, decided to review its international affairs strategy to ensure it can go on leading development cooperation activities in the future.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 March 2019 “Success comes only to those countries that invest in education”, by Olli Luukkainen and David Edwards.
Olli Luukkainen, David Edwards
Humanity is faced with many threats including climate change and threats to the environment. A vision is needed for these problems to be solved. Changing lifestyles and consumption habits can contribute to solving these problems but at the heart of helping humanity to survive is education, training and research.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 March 2019 "Let´s work together – Looking forward to ISTP 2019 in Finland", by Anders Rusk
Anders Rusk
We received good news in the beginning of autumn 2018 when we were told that Finland was appointed host country for the International Summit on the Teaching Profession 2019. This was something we in the Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö, OAJ, had lobbied, for before, without success. We are proud to contribute to...
"Let´s work together – Looking forward to ISTP 2019 in Finland", by Anders Rusk
Development Cooperation Projects
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Nordplus Horizontal 2020: Sustainable Ecosystems of Mentoring for Newly Qualified Teachers
- Host organizations
- University of SouthEastern Norway (USN)
- Cooperating organizations
- Danmarks Lærerforening, The Trade Union of Finland (OAJ), The Icelandic Teacher Union, Lärarförbundet, University of SouthEastern Norway (USN)
- Countries
- Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Norway
- Start date
- 2 August 2020
- End date
- 1 August 2023
Affiliates
Finnish Union of University Professors
FUUPhttp://www.professoriliitto.fi professoriliitto@professoriliitto.fi tel: +358 (9) 425.07.00 fax: +358 (9) 42.50.70.30Rautatieläisenkatu 6 FI-00520 HelsinkiFinnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers
FUURTRautatieläisenkatu 6 FIN 00520 HelsinkiOpetusalan Ammattijärjestö
OAJPO Box PL 20 00521 Helsinki