Cooperation

The project has provided the possibility to cooperate with other educational establishments. The University of Vaasa, the upper secondary schools in Vaasa (both Finnish and Swedish), the upper secondary school in Mustasaari as well as the municipalities of Vaasa and Mustasaari are other partners in the project. Students can get the FinTandem course accepted as a part of their studies and employees at the municipalities can participate in FinTandem as further education partly during working hours.

Furthermore, the adult education centres cooperate with Vaasa-opisto, Åbo Akademi University, Hanken – Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, the polytechnics and folk high-schools in Vaasa. These schools spread the information about FinTandem to their students and recommend the course as method for learning languages.

The project coordinators have also spread the information about FinTandem nationally to other adult educational centres. This has given new contacts and new regions are on the go with offering language learning with the tandem method.