Protocol September 6st, 2008

Community of Piikkiö
Salvelanrinne Comprehensive School
Koulutie 2
21500 Piikkiö, Finland
Tel. +35824711209, +358503405297

PROTOCOL

Place: Wanha Satama seminar center / restaurant area

Belgium: Franz Verplancke, Peter Van de Moortel, Natalie Verstraete
Finland: Marko Kuuskorpi, Ritva Tamminen, Sari Auramo
Holland: H.T Gankema, Jan Heijmans
Portugal: Isabel Serra
Sweden: Conny Steinmo, Bengt Malmroos
Spain: Nuria Cabellos

  1. Defining the main goals for the Forum for the Future -project ( FftF-project)

Our aim is to start a project which can serve as meaningful example for the renewal of the learning environment. This project can be used as a concrete example in our own countries as well as elsewhere in the field of new learning. Furthermore it will serve as an attempt to build a solid bridge between research and practice.

  1. Linking Forum for the Future –project to OECD/CERI ’s 21st Century Learning and Teaching: Innovative Learning Environment –project (appendix 1)

FftF -project could be linked, if it benefits our project, to OECD/CERI ’s 21st Century Learning and Teaching as an Innovative Learning Environment –project.

  1. Setting the goals

Our main goal is to collect best practises and there for the main questions are:
* How can you use best practices from other countries to push your own system forward?
* It’s not only about IT solutions, but also how to put critical thinking, creativity and social competence in learning?

In addition focus areas are:
* To look for new forms of assessment
* To articulate tough questions and recommendations to policy makers, researchers and other intermediates to help us push our agendas forward
* To diversify teaching and learning and in order to find new possibilities
* To increase contacts by networking with the world (local-global)
* To use the school premises, equipment and resources as effectively as possible
(economy-ecology)
* To innovate and experience new development projects
* To produce and test new teaching methods and learning environments
(virtual-physical environments)
  1. Confirming participants

This learning environment project should provide a concrete platform for school administrators, teachers and students. The participating schools are as follows:

Avelar / Agrupamento de Escolas de Avelar - Escola Basica 2.3 de Avelar, Portugal
Huddinge kommun / Trångsundsskolan, Sweden
Hardenburg / Vechtdal Gollege, Holland
San Lorenzo De el Escorial Madrid / IES Juan De Herrera, Spain
Vrije Basisschool Zedelgem De Leeuw / Zedelgem, Belgium
Sint-Amandscollege/Kortrijk, Belgium

Piikkiö / Salvelanrinne Comprehensive School
Parainen / Sarlinska Comprehensive School
Nilsiä/ Nilsiä Comprehensive School
Mäntsälä / Ohkola Primary school

New participant school can be added later on

  1. Timetable

2008 Preparation
2009 Start-up
2010 Simulation
2011 Results

Preliminary project calendar

2006-2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
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A. Preparation
Aa. Partnership invitations
Ab. Confirming parnerships
Ac. Defining project goals (1-2.10. 2008 Grasping the Future- seminar in Helsinki)

B. Strategy
Ba Choosing working method
Bb Formalising working method
Bc Elaborating working method
Bd Designing working method in practice

C. Simulation
Ca Preparations
Cb Background interviews
Cc Simulation plan
Cd Implementation of simulation (2009 end)

D. Processing results
Da Result collecting
Db Result summary
Dc Result analysing
Dd Conclusions

E. Results
Ea Evaluation
Eb Result aggregation
Ec Preparing publication
Ee Publication (autum 2011)

  1. Finance

As financial perspective, the FftF-project is ready to operate according to timetable. Other resource possibilities will be looking for. To help this process all the certificates will be put down to our wikipages in address fftf.wikispaces.com.

  1. Method (appendix 2 / InnoSchool)

We propose a common and potential user based learning environment project. This project is to be seen as a net of innovators which promotes new and exciting learning environments in the 21st century.


  1. Next meetings in 2009

The possibility to have next meeting during spring 2009 is considered. The Belgium/Holland unit will examine their capacity to organize it. Each country takes care of accommodation and travel costs of their representatives. Suggestions for issues to be discussed in the meeting are requested to the coordinator.

The simulation seminar is submitted to be held in Spain / San Lorenzo de el Escorial in the end of year 2009. The coordinator shall propose this to Spanish officials in the meeting in Madrid 27.10.2008.

Unit meetings are organized (Belgia-Hollanti / Finland-Sweden / Spain-Portugal) indipendentantly.

  1. Practical research

Practical research will be launched according to appendix 3. Research goals will be determined by the coordinator accordingly with pre-interviews.

  1. E-mails

Belgium:
Franz Verplancke, fverplancke@sintamandscollege.be
Peter Van de Moortel, peter.vandemoortel@scarlet.be
Natalie Verstraete natalie.verstraete@ond.vlaanderen.be
Finland:
Paula Mattila (FNBE) paula.mattila@oph.fi
Marko Kuuskorpi, marko.kuuskorpi@piikkio.fi
Ritva Tamminen, ritva.tamminen@piikkio.fi
Sari Auramo sari.auramo@pp1.inet.fi

Parainen / Sarlinska Comprehensive School /
Annika Johansson-Rosenlund annika.johansson@mebb.net
Nilsiä/ Nilsiä Comprehensive School / Simo Snelman simo.snelman@nilsia.fi
Mäntsälä / Ohkola Primary school / Sari Auramo sari.auramo@pp1.inet.fi
Holland:
H.T Gankema, h.gankema@kpcgroep.nl
Jan Heijmans j.heijmans@ens.fi
Marja Ritterfeld-Vanderhostr mj.ritterfeld-vanderhorst@vechtdalcollege.nl
Portugal:
Isabel Serra isabelserra2003@gmail.com
Sweden:
Conny Steinmo, conny.stenimo@huddinge.se
Bengt Malmroos bengt.malmroos@huddinge.se
Spain:
Nuria Cabellos ncabellos@hotmail.com


Piikkiö, Finland



Marko Kuuskorpi
Headmaster, Salvelanrinne Comprehensive School