4. Jyväskylä Vocational Institute, College of Arts and Crafts, Jyväskylän
ammattiopisto
The College
of Arts and Crafts
provides education for future Artisans and Professionals in Visual Expression.
The students can choose
from two initial qualifications featuring clothing, wood and metal work, and
communications and visual arts. The College has 130 students and 20
staff. Previously the College was known as the Central Finland Handicraft
and Industrial Art School.
The main
form of internationalisation is student and staff exchange. One of the partner
institutions is John Ruskin College in London, UK. The students can also
complete their on-the-job learning placement periods abroad.
Qualifications
of the College of Arts and Crafts:
Vocational
Qualification in Crafts and Design: Artisan
Vocational Qualification in Visual Expression
Contact:
Principal, Mr Pentti Rissanen, Tel. +358 (0)20 540 6061
Mr. Mikko Auerniitty, international affairs coordinator
5. Pekka Halonen
Academy, Pekka Halosen
akatemia
PEKKA
HALONEN ACADEMY is located in a prestigious building in the
neighbourhood of Jean Sibelius’ home and
the home and studio of the artist Pekka
Halonen.
The
Academy offers a variety of training
programmes in the cultural sector.
Vocational Qualification in Visual and Media Arts
is
a three-year-programme and the students can specialize in
Graphic
Design Visual and Media Arts
Photography
Completion
of the studies provides qualification for working life or eligibility for
further education.
The
Graphic Design student can be employed
e.g. in advertising or press agencies and publishing companies.
Visual and Media Arts programme provides comprehensive basic skills and
knowledge in visual and media arts and initiates the students into the work of
a painter, graphic artist or a sculptor.
The
student of Photography achieves the
qualification of a photographer. The
various photographing techniques and developing the student’s personal
way of expression are the main objectives in the studies.
Folk
High School Programme in Visual and Media Arts is a one-year programme, which gives the
student an overall view and understanding of the various sectors and forms of
communication and visual expression. After completion of the programme many
students continue their studies in the Vocational Qualification Programme in
Visual and Media Arts.
Contact
Mr.
Jukka Kinanen
6. The Järvenpää Training Centre, Invalidiliiton
Järvenpään Koulutuskeskus
owned by
the Finnish Association of People with Mobility Disabilitiesis an institute,
which prepares the disabled for a profession and supplements their professional
skills. It focuses on providing special training for the disabled and people
with health problems. The programs of study offered by the Centre are
particularly for people with physical disabilities as well as for young people
and adults requiring special instruction or special studying conditions.
The
Järvenpää Training Centre is a nation-wide institute, which follows the Good
Rehabilitation Practice set by the Finnish Association of People with Mobility
Disabilities. The practice emphasizes the continuous development of the quality
of the rehabilitation services for the severely disabled.
The
Institute focuses on providing training for the severely disabled people on the
basis of social challenges in our society. One of the main tasks of the
Institute is to work as a development centre of special instruction and education
and offer special expertise.
GRAPHICS
TECHNOLOGY:
- 80 cr,
two years
- graphic
design
- adult
education
MAIN
COURSES IN GRAPHICS TECHNOLOGY -EDUCATION
ADP-basics
- PhotoShop CS - InDesign CS - Illustrator CS - Desktop Publishing - Business
Graphics - Package Design – Typography – Orientation - Advertising Campaign
Design - Print Process - Drawing and Illustrating – Sculpturing – Photography -
Art History - Advertising and Marketing - Www-design (html, Dreamweaver MX) -
Videoshooting and Editing - Customer Service + 4-5 weeks of Job Rehearsal
The Järvenpää Training Centre provides excellent
learning and working environment for upcoming students or teachers. Main focus
is to create high quality print product by using the latest technology and
knowledge.
Contact
Mr. Petri Alander ,
International affairs coordinator
7. Seinäjoki
Vocational education Centre
TAIKU School of Crafts, Design and Culture
Jurva School of Crafts
and Design
TAIKU / Jurvan käsi- ja taideteollisuusoppilaitos
TAIKU is a school where you can study Crafts and Design or Communication and Visual Arts. Our important principles are
craftsmanship, aesthetics, high quality, traditions and individuality.
TAIKU’s
study programmes are Handicraft Design and Production (Woodwork:
design and production of wooden artefacts, furniture manufacture and ornamental
woodcarving, restoration of furniture; Metalwork: jewellery making and
blacksmithwork), Textiles and Clothing Design and Production
(Textiles: textile printing, feltmaking, dyeing, weaving; Clothing: dressmaking
and accessories, clothing and knitted materials), Environmental Design
and Construction (Interior construction: interiors, surfaces, design;
Painting sector: restoration and decorative painting) and Visual
Expression (Graphic design).
Contact
Ms. Teija Olkkola
PL 4
Kotikouluntie 1
FIN - 66301 JURVA
tel. +35820 124 5900, fax +35820 124 5901
8. South Carelia Vocational College
The Department of Visual Arts, Imatran
taidekoulu
At South Carelia
Vocational College
in Imatra and Lappeenranta
students can take initial vocational qualifications in six fields pf studies.
v
Fine Arts and Design
v
Business and Administration
v
Tourism and Hospitality
v
Health Care and Social Welfare
v
Technology and Transport
v
Natural Resources
Entry Requirements
To be eligible, students must have completed comprehensive school ( age
16+ ) before entering the programs. However, there are also study options for
upper secondary graduates (age 19+).
The study programs take tree years to complete and primary aim at the
acquisition of skills necessary in working life. In addition, the programs give
general eligibility for further studies at universities and other institutions
of higher education. The programs also give skills to start working as a
professional artist.
South Carelia Vocational
College feels that
international contacts are a necessary step in offering high quality modern
education and training.
VOCATIONAL QUALIFICATION IN VISUAL EXPRESSION
Imatra School of Fine Arts
Students are provided with basic skills and techniques in visual
expression. In addition to the traditional forms of visual expression such as
painting, drawing and sculpture, the program introduces new methods of
expression including digital image processing, video graphic, photography and
multimedia. Students can specialize in either fine arts or graphic design.
To succeed in this trade, students must commit themselves to studies and
learn how to apply their skills in practice independently.
After having finished two years of basic studies where all students
participate in all subjects the student chooses a major subject with which he
or she will work the third year and finish the studies
by making the diploma work with the chosen subject.
Contact: Mr. Jean-Erik Kullberg, Mr. Juha Saitajoki
Kanavakatu
6, FIN - 55100 Imatra
tel. +35820 49 66712, fax +35820 49 66719
www.scp.fi/
9. Ikaalinen College of Crafts and Design, Ikaalisten käsi-
ja taideteollisuusoppilaitos
(IKATA), founded in
1953, is one of three colleges governed (since 1997) by Länsi-Pirkanmaan
koulutuskuntayhtymä. The college is situated 55km north-west of Tampere but it attracts students from all
over the country. IKATA has a long
tradition and strong profile as education provider for various fields in the
arts, crafts and design sectors. Several of the programmes taught at IKATA,
such as gunsmithing, accordion building and string instrument building, are not
taught anywhere else in Finland.
IKATA is also the sole provider of IVT in glassblowing, stained glass
techniques and model building. The 17 different crafts programmes in IKATA are
considered to be in the vanguard of development of versatile and flexible
educational methods and structures in Finland.
In 1998 Ikaalinen
College of Crafts and Design was awarded the price of College of the
year. A key
motivation for this price was the long-term commitment on
internationalization
of both students and staff IKATA has had. So far IKATA has
annually been
awareded several Leonardo da Vinci, Comenius and other EU funded
projects as well as
Nordplus projects funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers. In
the past two years
the college has participated in 4 Leonardo da Vinci placement projects,
1 Leonardo da Vinci
exchange of experts, 4 Comenius language
projects as well as
annual Nordplus Jnr
(funding provided by the Nordic Council of Ministers) exchanges to
Sweden and Norway.
IKATA has also successfully participated as a
partner or a promoter in several
development projects
funded by both various EU programmes and the National Board of
Education in Finland.
Most recently IKATA has been the promoter of
e.g. Näyttö
käyttöön project that
created materials for the national implementation of demonstration
based evaluation in
the crafts sector which was followed by a dissemination project
Kulttuurinäyttö. IKATA has also focused on the development of
support for
entrepreneurship in
the crafts sector in projects such as Käsitä
työsi that developed career
and recruitment
services for crafts people and recent graduates and Hand made Business
that created a
module on entrepreneurship for crafts students. The aim of this module is to
allow the student to
start their own business while they
still are studying and thus lower
the threshold of
starting their own business after graduation.
Currently Ikata is the promoter for CRAFT NET project funded by the
European Comission. The aim of the project is to develop on-the-job learning
and demonstration based evaluation with its National and European partners. The
project also supports the future vision of Ikaalinen College of Crafts and
Design as the leading provider of IVT in the field of crafts on national level
with excellent relations with education providers and crafts businesses on both
national and European level.
Contact
details:
IKAALINEN COLLEGE
OF CRAFTS AND DESIGN
Eino
Salmelaisen katu 20, 39500
IKAALINEN
Finland
telephone
(operator): +358 3 450 9327
fax: +358
3 450 9330
10. North Karelia College, Outokumpu, PKKY Outokummun oppimiskeskus
North Karelia College Outokumpu is the third
biggest college of all the colleges belonging to North Karelia Municipal
Education and Training Consortium. Our college has approximately 650 students
from all over Finland.
We have also students and visiting teachers from abroad. We offer secondary vocational education for all
people over 16 years. Some of our study programs, for example Game design,
Dance and Vocational Qualification in Audiovisual Communication in English, are
unique in Finland.
North Karelia College Outokumpu offers secondary vocational education for all
people over 16 years. We have few unique study programmes as Game desing, Dance
and Vocational Qualification in Audiovisual Communication in English.
The purpose of the vocational training is that students can rely on their
competence to cope with the wide range of tasks in their field, to find a job
in the increasingly competitive labour market and to qualify for further
studies.
The study programmes and vocational qualifications in Outokumpu are
- Audiovisual Communication (Media Assistant)
- Crafts and Design (Artisan)
- Dance (Dancer)
- Electrical Engineering (Electronics Assembler)
- Metalwork and Machinery (Machinist)
- Social and Health Care (Practical Nurse)
- Visual Expression
- Technical Design (Design Assistant)
- Publishing and Printing (Printing Assistant)
All degrees include 20 credits of on-the-job-learning which means that students
carry out studies at a work place “in real life”. It is also possible to
accomplish the on-the-job-learning abroad.
We are constantly enlarging our international affairs with foreign colleges and
organisations to give better possibilities to our students to have training and
study periods abroad. Especially collaboration with Petrozavodsk
in Russia
is active and projects have made it possible for our students to study and
train there. We have a NordplusJunior-exchange project together with Icelandic
technical college in Reykjavik.
It has offered the possibility for six students per year to visit in Iceland.
Our students have also studied in Australia,
Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands,
Spain and Sweden.
We have also 2 study programmes in English: Vocational Qualification in
Audiovisual Communication and Vocational Qualification in Dance. The programs
are open to all Finns, foreign nationals and immigrants who have completed
Finnish compulsory education or an equivalent.
Contact information
11. Ingmanin käsi- ja taideteollisuusoppilaitos
Contact information
12. Länsi-Lapin ammatti-instituutti
Contact information
13. Pirkanmaa College, School of Crafts and Design, Pirkanmaan taitokeskus
Pirkanmaa College, School
of Crafts and Design is located in Lempäälä, Finland,
25 kilometres
south of Tampere.
The school is owned jointly by several municipalities involved in vocational
education in the region of Pirkanmaa.
Pirkanmaa
College, School of Crafts and Design is a vocational school providing its
students with a change to acquire a solid basic education in the fields of wood,
metal, clothing, textile, design, interior decoration and communications.
Depending on the students' former education, graduation from the school takes
either three years (comprehensive school) or 2,5 years (secondary school).
The
studies combine product design based on a cultural knowledge and aesthetic and
creative expression, the manufacture of a product with quality and suitability
for its intended use, and subjects related to the marketing and selling of the
finished product. Studying is free of charge.
Pirkanmaan
Taitokeskus, kulttuuri, Pirkanmaa College, School
of Crafts and Design Street
address: Valkeakoskentie 19 37500 LEMPÄÄLÄ, Finland International phone number:
+358 3 3155 5200 International fax number: +358 3 3155 5205
Contact information