Best Practices Benchmarking in
Finnish and Estonian schools: March sessions
9 - 13 March 2015
16 – 20 March 2015
Course
website: read
more: http://www.ejournal.fi/benchmarking
The course includes 40h of
training. It
is organised in Helsinki capital city area, Finland. The nearest airport is
Helsinki-Vantaa.
The course venue, Tikkurila upper secondary school, is situated in the walking distance of 15 min from Tikkurila railway station.
The course venue, Tikkurila upper secondary school, is situated in the walking distance of 15 min from Tikkurila railway station.
Provider: The course is
organised by Euneos Corp in cooperation with schools in Vantaa. Euneos
Corp. organises EU courses on a standing basis since 2006. Euneos PIC:
950782555.
From the airport: If your hotel is in Helsinki center, you can take bus 615 or Finnair bus to Helsinki main railway station. Taxi costs more than 40 euro.
If you have booked Hotel SOKOS Vantaa in Tikkurila you can take bus 61 from the airport to Tikkurila railway station, which is also the bus terminal. The hotel is situated next to it.
Buses from airport leave every 10 – 15 minutes. Tickets are available in the bus. Drivers accept euro cent coins and also bank notes up to 20 euro note. Single tickets in public transport cost 3 – 5 euro. (See information about multi-day-ticket later in this document!) Finnair bus costs more.
From the airport: If your hotel is in Helsinki center, you can take bus 615 or Finnair bus to Helsinki main railway station. Taxi costs more than 40 euro.
If you have booked Hotel SOKOS Vantaa in Tikkurila you can take bus 61 from the airport to Tikkurila railway station, which is also the bus terminal. The hotel is situated next to it.
Buses from airport leave every 10 – 15 minutes. Tickets are available in the bus. Drivers accept euro cent coins and also bank notes up to 20 euro note. Single tickets in public transport cost 3 – 5 euro. (See information about multi-day-ticket later in this document!) Finnair bus costs more.
Arrival: Arrival on Sunday 8 or 15 March. Departure: Saturday 14 or 21 March or Friday evening (5 days course). Please inform us if you need special arrangements concerning your arrival day.
The course will start on Monday morning
9 or 16 March and end on Friday afternoon 13 or 20 March. For participants who
registered for 3 days course, the course will end on Wednesday late afternoon.
Participants who have registered for
Helsinki and Tallinn will travel to Tallinn on Thursday evening and return on
Friday late afternoon, except for those who came to Helsinki via Tallinn and
can leave from Tallinn without returning to Helsinki.
Start:
Welcome dinner on Sunday evening (optional)
All participants have their budget for
accommodation including all their lunches and dinners.
The welcome dinner will be on Sunday 8
March for the first March session, and on Sunday 15 March for the second one. Dinner
will start at 18:00. Later we will ask you to confirm whether you participate
in the Sunday evening meal or not, and inform you about restaurant and price.
Communication: in December all
participants will get an invitation to take part in the preparation of their
benchmarking course in Mixxt community platform. All the course documents will
be found there as well. This community will enable the course organisers to get
to know your wishes for the course and participants will meet there online.
Flight info:.
The nearest airport is Helsinki-Vantaa (HEL). Finding a flight for example in Momondo http://bit.ly/1knRAzZ .
There is also an international airport in Tallinn, Estonia, 80 km away from Helsinki. The route Tallinn – Helsinki is frequently connected by ferries, which cost about 60 – 70 euros a return ticket. Travelling via Tallinn can be a good choice especially for those who choose the option of 1 day benchmarking schools in Tallinn on Friday. They can choose to leave home from Tallinn instead of Helsinki. Then the ferry costs will be included in the travelling costs to be compensated by the EU grant. More about the ferry schedules and prices in http://www.directferries.co.uk/helsinki_tallinn_ferry.htm.
The nearest airport is Helsinki-Vantaa (HEL). Finding a flight for example in Momondo http://bit.ly/1knRAzZ .
There is also an international airport in Tallinn, Estonia, 80 km away from Helsinki. The route Tallinn – Helsinki is frequently connected by ferries, which cost about 60 – 70 euros a return ticket. Travelling via Tallinn can be a good choice especially for those who choose the option of 1 day benchmarking schools in Tallinn on Friday. They can choose to leave home from Tallinn instead of Helsinki. Then the ferry costs will be included in the travelling costs to be compensated by the EU grant. More about the ferry schedules and prices in http://www.directferries.co.uk/helsinki_tallinn_ferry.htm.
Local travel: A multi-day-ticket
(available up to 7 days) for all public transport of Helsinki capital city area
costs 36 euro/5 days for the time being. You can find more information about it
in https://www.hsl.fi/en .
One regional (“seutu”) single ticket costs
5 euros and it includes changes to another public transport in the area within
the next 1 hour.
The trains between Helsinki main
railway station and Tikkurila go every 15 min, and the trip takes about 20 min.
Helsinki capital city area has a population
of more than one million. Nevertheless, public transport is normally very
punctual and well functioning. However,
there may be slow traffic in Helsinki center due to rush hours. And snowfall
may also cause delay in March.
Course fee in € to be paid to
Euneos.
Euneos will send the bill for
payment of course fee and organisation costs in January 2015.
We will send as a default one bill for all participants of your school participating in the same course. We will mention the names of the participants.
If you have participants in
more Euneos courses you will receive separate bills for each course.
As a default we will mention
pro participant 350 euro: costs for tuition and materials and 300 euro:
organisation costs (total sum to be paid to Euneos 650 euro VAT included).
If you have more than 5
participants in Euneos courses you will get a discount of 10%. It means that
the bill will show pro participant 350 euro (tuition and materials) and 235
(organisation costs). Total sum pro participant
585 euro VAT included.
Euneos VAT: FI19358803. (VAT-registered
customers can claim back 24% VAT in their own countries due to B2B.)
Other costs: There is a restaurant in the venue, providing
school lunch and coffee at moderate prices.
- Lunch, coffee/tea during breaks: about 50 - 70 euro/5 training days.
-
Dinner costs: Depending on individual
choices of meals and restaurants.
Accommodation: participants will
take care of booking their hotel.
You can find information about hotels for your choice by using trivago.fi, hotels.com, booking.com, www.hotellit.org etc. The hotel chosen should be in Tikkurila, in Helsinki centre, or close to the northern railway elsewhere, or around Helsinki-Vantaa airport. Then your travel to the course venue is not going to be more than 30 – 60 minutes.
Hotel close to venue: Original Hotel Sokos Vantaa,
You can find information about hotels for your choice by using trivago.fi, hotels.com, booking.com, www.hotellit.org etc. The hotel chosen should be in Tikkurila, in Helsinki centre, or close to the northern railway elsewhere, or around Helsinki-Vantaa airport. Then your travel to the course venue is not going to be more than 30 – 60 minutes.
Hotel close to venue: Original Hotel Sokos Vantaa,
https://www.sokoshotels.fi/en/vantaa/sokos-hotel-vantaa
A 4-star hotel situated opposite to Tikkurila railway station and bus
terminal. Walking distance to venue 15 min. Bus 62 and 69 in 5 min. Former
participants gave good assessment.
Hotels close to Helsinki main railway station:
Hotel Arthur http://www.hotelarthur.fi/en/ . About 200 m away from
Helsinki main railway station, train connection to Tikkurila in 20 min
Hotel Helka http://www.helka.fi/en. About 10 min walk to Helsinki main railway
station. No alcohol service.
Hostels:
In addition to hotels, there is the option of youth hostels: http://ow.ly/AhNj2 .
Example: Hotel Tikkurila, http://hotellitikkurila.fi/hotel-tikkurila.
Accommodation with breakfast, rooms for 1-8 persons at low prices. Within a walking distance of 1,5 km to Tikkurilan Lukio. Many buses go from Tikkurila railway station to Hotel Tikkurila, which is situated in a site for sports.
Example: Hotel Tikkurila, http://hotellitikkurila.fi/hotel-tikkurila.
Accommodation with breakfast, rooms for 1-8 persons at low prices. Within a walking distance of 1,5 km to Tikkurilan Lukio. Many buses go from Tikkurila railway station to Hotel Tikkurila, which is situated in a site for sports.
Information for participants who will travel to Tallinn
on Thursday
Accommodation in Tallinn
You will have to make a
hotel reservation for Thursday night in Tallinn and for the following nights if
you are going to stay in Tallinn. There are many cheap hotels in Tallinn. You
can find them with booking sites such as booking.com
Please select a hotel in
the inner city of Tallinn or close to the English College, Estonia blvd. 10,
Tallinn, 10148, ESTONIA. See more information on next page.
We will inform you later
at which time exactly you will take the ferry to Tallinn on Thursday.
See prices of the ferry below.
Contact
with trainers / organisers
The mail address for
benchmarking course participants for any questions is courses@euneos.eu
In case of urgent problems
you can phone or send a text message to: Arne Verhaegen tel +358409651169 (not in Finland before March
2015), Ilpo Halonen tel +358503460015, Heidi Veikkolainen tel +358404100771.
Detailed
programme
The detailed programme
will be published in the Mixxt community.
You don't need to print
the programme. It will be in the conference folder.
Preparatory
activities
You will find
information about preparatory activities in the Mixxt community. You can start
your preparation activities in January.
Information
about Tallinn on next page.
Thursday
à Transfer to Tallinn
by boat at 16:30 (Tallink Silja) or 17:00 (Linda Lines)
(1)
Tallink Silja Lines
(2)
Linda Lines
à Accommodation Tallinn
With regard
to Tallinn hotels recommendation,
www.booking.com is better than anyone of us. Anyhow, our trainers in Tallinn have
recommened Metropol (http://www.metropol.ee),
City Hotel Portus (right next to
the ferry terminal (http://www.tallinncityhotelportus.com) and Radisson Park Inn (http://www.parkinn.com/hotel-centraltallinn/contact). The most important thing is that you book a hotel in a very
convenient location (within a walking distance from ferry terminal, Old Town
and University).
Friday (provisional programme, might be changed
9.25 Arrival at Tallinn English College (https://tik.edu.ee/p/232-ib-in-tallinn-english-college), welcome from school principal, short
presentation about the school
9.40 Teachers are split to groups of 4-5
persons, each group will go to a separate lesson + Lesson starts (possibility
to move between classes)
10.15 Break: possibility to interview the
Estonian teachers in TIK
10.25 Tour of the school
10.40 Workshop in the library, together
with 3-5 Estonian teachers and 3-5 students (age 16-19)
12.00 Lunch in the school
12.30 Walk to the Old Town, after that a
tram/bus ride to Tallinn University (€1,50p/p)
13.00 Workshop led by prof. Mati Heidmets
(head of the Centre for Educational Innovation): Estonian Strategy of Lifelong
Learning 2020 in the light of recent PISA results
14.30 Coffee break
14.45 Roundtable discussion, using some
digital tools (clickers, iPads)
16.00 The end, walk to harbour.
à Transfer to Tallinn
by boat at 16:30 (Tallink Silja) or 17:00 (Linda Lines)
(1)
Tallink Silja Lines
(2)
Linda Lines
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