Entrepreneurship Education 
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in Northern Ostrobothnia 
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Basic education, grades 0-6
In basic education, entrepreneurship education focuses on the following factors: social, economic and working life skills and knowledge, co-operation, entrepreneurship and initiative, responsibility, innovation and creativity and self-knowledge.
Entrepreneurial and working life skills
- Supporting the students’ search for their own strengths via positive and encouraging evaluation.
- Practicing different working life skills in groups. The students evaluate their own work as well as that of the group.
- Getting to know how society works by also organising teaching at workplaces, companies and volunteer organisations.
- Reinforcing the students’ understanding of the significance of the economy from both a personal and social perspective.
- Enabling the students’ independent activity at the school in event planning, for example.
- Developing the students’ broad knowledge with long-lasting and multidisciplinary learning modules.
Learning environments and methods
- Setting learner-oriented learning goals. The students participate in the planning and evaluation of the activities.
- The teaching methods involve pedagogy which inspires the future and versatile learning methods such as phenomenon-based learning or project learning.
- Multidisciplinary learning modules, theme days and projects that are developed and realised among multiple school classes and together with entrepreneurship education partners.
- Co-operation between different levels of education. Workshops and visits led by students.
- Practicing international co-operation in different ways.
- All sixth graders participate in the Corporate Village learning module that focuses on working life, entrepreneurship and the economy.