Open Seminar , 10th September 2013

Pärnu College, Estonia (Ringi 35, 80012 Pärnu)

9.00 Welcome to Pärnu − Coffee, music

9.30 About the PROcompetence project, Kaija

Matinheikki-Kokko, project manager

Presentations by country

9.45 Tarja Tikkanen and Ingrid Lindaas

(Haugesund College, Norway): Learning in a

meeting with clients. Procompetence project

as an extended learning arena.

10.30 Valter Parve Kristi Ollino (UT, Pärnu College and

Shalom Centre, Estonia): New tools and ideas for

organizing the students' work placement courses.

11.15 Pirjo Lahdenperä, Marja-Terttu Tryggvason,

Anne Lillvist (Mälardalen University College,

Sweden): Multicultural challenges and

possibilities in interaction with parents in

school and preschools in Sweden.

12.00 Anna-Riitta Mäkitalo, Titta Hakala and Riitta

Vähä-Savo (Helsinki Metropolia University

and Meripirrti Kindergarten, Finland): Client-

centeredness in Education and Practice of

Social Work

12.45 − 13 Discussions and Conclusion

Afternoon Organized walk through Pärnu College

For more information, please visit procompetence.metropolia.fi

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In the seminar, we discuss how teachers, students and their working life partners have

reflected students’ current work placement practices in each country and co-created new

pedagogical approaches, methods and activities in terms of clients’

needs

In this project, teachers, students

and work placement mentors have been

rethinking their competences in terms of

customers’ need and in the context of the students’ work placement in the social, educational and

pre-school education field.

The aim has been to promote customer-

centred competence building in higher

education in a partner network of four higher education institutions

from Finland, Sweden, Norway

and Estonia

The cultural diversity among customers

within the work placement trainings is

considered as a challenge for the co-desining of versatile

service competences.