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City of Helsinki

Forerunner 2019

We are proud to announce our first Forerunner: The City of Helsinki. As the world around us has become more complex, new and versatile skills are required in order to thrive. HundrED Forerunners identify top-level innovations that can improve education immediately and at scale. Forerunner Helsinki presents system-level innovations for implementing the goals of the new curriculum in Finland.

In partnership with Helsinki Education Division

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Forerunner: Improving Education in Helsinki

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Innovations

Explore education innovations recognized by HundrED as well as innovations from shared by the education community across the world.

City of Helsinki

Design Thinking

Design and invention pedagogy

Design and invention pedagogy promotes design thinking, resulting in the design of new products, services and ideas. By developing learners' ideas, we can learn skills for the future and build a susta

City of Helsinki

Collaborative Learning Multi-disciplinary Learning

Phenomenon based learning

The key aspect of phenomenon based learning is the related multidisciplinary and collaborative learning process – rather than a single project or individual outcome of what was learned. Phenomenon bas

City of Helsinki

Student Voice and Agency

Learners as decision makers

Participation is clearly a common practice in the City of Helsinki's Education Division. By law, the education provider must hear pupils and students with regard to decisions that have a significant e

Learning Environments

Whole city as a learning environment

The whole City of Helsinki can be regarded as a large learning environment in which learners work actively. Instead of learning taking place only at school and in the classroom during the school day,

Professional Development Teacher Training

Expert and tutor teachers

Helsinki focuses on teachers' professional development and school reform. As part of teachers' continuing education, the city has created developer teacher networks to support competence development.