eLearningworld News from Finland

The government of Finland is funding ten universities with totally €1,35 million for courses to retrain people that lost their jobs or risk loosing their jobs in the ICT-sector. The flexible approach of the funding is for courses that support professionals to redirect their competence, productification of competence, international market skills and entrepreneurship for new businesses. The specific fields that are targeted are for example Game Developer, Pedagogical Teacher studies for people with ICT-competence, Professional Programme in Human-Technology interaction and To become a startup-entrepreneur within the ICT-sector. Source: Press Release Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture