Hi guys!
Regards from Kunstenniemi! I and ~50 other university students are here spending next three days innovating and brainstorming around assignments from different companies. You can go to our blog and Twitter and read there more about our client, Digita Oy and what we have been doing during last two months.
love,
Sanni
måndag 15 april 2013
onsdag 3 april 2013
WAR in Roparnäs succeeded
At Sunday evening me, Veronika, Minerva
and Dalle arrived in Björköby, Korsholm, where I grew up. We also stayed there
during the 3 days we were in Ostrobothnia. We started planning for the project
prosecution for the following day.
At Monday morning when we arrived to the
classroom in Novia where we would be during the day, were there already
students waiting for us.
We started off with a check in, where the students
told about their mood and where they were from, since it was a multicultural
group, we were interested to know. The group, NU12, was curious about what we
were going to do and they were very polite.
When the real work started I kicked off
with the communication workshop. The workshop was about actively listening, straight
communication and how to handle conflicts in a group. Minerva, Veronika and
Dalle filled me in if they also had a point with something I said or different
examples. We helped each other J NU12 asked questions when they did
not understand or wanted us to help them find a solution to their problem, if
they had one. They gave us different examples and asked how to do in those kinds
of cases. It was really interesting too for us, since they also said that they
would not do it in that way that we suggested, because of the cultural differences.
It was no big things, but still a difference, that was really interesting to see
J
After lunch we started with the more
interactive part of the day. We had a four corner value exercise. For each
sentence that was read, the students went to a corner, whether they agreed, disagreed,
did not know or had an own opinion. Then we discussed the issues and different values.
We also had the articles of human rights with us and then the students were
supposed to read an article and then have a discussion about it. There were of
course many different opinions and the discussion and dialogue when really
well. You could see a process from the previous workshop part set in motion
already, which also showed us in the projectgroup that we did a good work! J in
the check out NU12 told that they appreciated the workshop and left with a
happy mood, so did we J
On Tuesday in the check in we found out
that the students actually had more expectations than the precious day because
it had been so informative, different and fun. Tuesday was reserved for
projectwork. We introduced them to all the documents that we are using as tools
in the projects and why these are good to know about and how to use them. NU12
got a little confused and there was some frustration, but in the end, the
students came up with really nice ideas for a project to do during
international nurses day(http://www.icn.ch/publications/2013-closing-the-gap-millennium-development-goals-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1/). Some of them wrote a group contract for their
projectgroups and some even did do some more documentation.
NU12 really relied in us, which was also
gaining trust for each other. Now we’re keeping in touch so we can help them
with the project if they need any. And I am going to be there on international
nurses day. We could see the process in their communication just the two days we were there and we are proud of the work we all did together :)
Proud projectleader
julle *
måndag 25 mars 2013
All mixed up!
Last Thursday, for the celebration of the WAR, week against racism, (and just for fun)
we arranged a Multicultural Speed-date Evening in Kirjakahvila here in Turku.
The original plan was to reach as many people as possible, from as many cultural
backgrounds s possible.
It was lots of other parties too in Turku, so in the end, it were only few of us there. The range of nationalities was still: Finnish, French, Greekish and Chinese. So, quite a bunch of people.
Whereas
immigration and refugee has grown during the last centuries, it has become easy
to travel especially when you’re a student. It’s not a wonder if You hear
someone behind You in the supermarket speak mandarin china or German. It's almost
more common nowadays to have been a exchange-student than not to have been one.
So we're globalizing also socially, and as it happens so fast, we may not have
the time to actually think what we have in front of our eyes.
That is:
our fellow men.
As I sat
there tired of the tuff week, I suddenly realized again, how lucky I am.
To be
able to spent time with these wonderful, open people, who don’t have a racist
bone in their bodies. In fact, quite the opposite. And I'm learning something
new, all the time, every minute! Totally free of charge! Now I know that men in
China cant marry before their 22, that in France You can still smoke in public
places, that Greek women think women in Finland behave against good manners
when they speak "like men"... and well, you know. No huge revealing,
but eye-openers to others everyday life.
And there
we were, all mixed up. Our languages, traditions, and genes.
Under
the very same sky, as all of the rest of the mankind.
W-A-R!
NO! I'm not talking about an actual war with soldiers, guns and so on. I'm talking about the international event called "Week Against Racism". That week took place last week, week 12, and team Noving had been planning an eventful week to spread the word about this week and what it is all about.
We had the first project on Tuesday the 19th and that was an adventure with Human Rights as content and the Haavi boardmembers and laidies from Daisy Laidies as participants. The adventure took place in the forest in Ruissalo right outside the centre of Turku. The participants were divided into two groups and the groups were supposed to gather fifteen Human Rights each and give them to the Queen of the Forest. The tricky thing here was that there were bad people running around in the forest and these could come and take one or two Rights from the participants. All the Rights all came back in to safe hands of the Queen and the peace in the Forest was restored.
The praticipants liked the idea of participating in an adventure and they all went home with big smiles on their faces.
On Wednesday four people went to the swedishspeaking high school in Turku to educate second year students about racism through times. There was a brainstorming about what racism is and then there was a discussion about how racism have been seen through times. There was also a discussion about culture and religion, how these two can either create racism or how it can solve racismproblems around the world.
A valueexercise is always a good way to get the praticipants involved and a good way to get a discussion going. There were alot of different opinions and great discussions and we all would have liked to have more time to discuss about many topics.
The students said that this was very eye-opening and a good reminder for them.
Right after the high school-project half of our team went by bus to Dalsbruk to participate as volunteers in a project called "On the Run". This method is invented by the Red Cross and it is a 24 hour roleplay. The participants in this roleplay are refugees and they are under these 24 hours living the life that all the refugees in the world are living on a daily basis.
On Wednesday evening we participated in an education for all the volunteers who will take place in the roleplay. There was alot of information in a short while and we went to sleep on madresses on the schoolfloor with our brains struggling with itself because of all the info.
When we were in Dalsbruk the roleplay was only (!!) 12 hours because the participants were too young to handle the 24 hour-version.
The participants were running around in the forest, filling out papers that they maybe didn't understand, came to a countryboarder where the guards were not so nice and so on.
We, the members of team Noving, was playing roles like guards, pathleaders, hunters so we didn't have to live the life of refugees but we got to know alot about the process and the daily life of refugees around the world today.
Friday morning two of our team members went to a school in Tammisaari to hold interactive workshops about racism.
On our training session on Friday we had a feedback about this week as a whole and we are proud of what we have done to contribute to a society with less racism in it!
And we sincerely hope that something like this will become a yearly event that becoming Bachelor of Humanities develop into something bigger.
with alot of love from Dalle
We had the first project on Tuesday the 19th and that was an adventure with Human Rights as content and the Haavi boardmembers and laidies from Daisy Laidies as participants. The adventure took place in the forest in Ruissalo right outside the centre of Turku. The participants were divided into two groups and the groups were supposed to gather fifteen Human Rights each and give them to the Queen of the Forest. The tricky thing here was that there were bad people running around in the forest and these could come and take one or two Rights from the participants. All the Rights all came back in to safe hands of the Queen and the peace in the Forest was restored.
The praticipants liked the idea of participating in an adventure and they all went home with big smiles on their faces.
On Wednesday four people went to the swedishspeaking high school in Turku to educate second year students about racism through times. There was a brainstorming about what racism is and then there was a discussion about how racism have been seen through times. There was also a discussion about culture and religion, how these two can either create racism or how it can solve racismproblems around the world.
A valueexercise is always a good way to get the praticipants involved and a good way to get a discussion going. There were alot of different opinions and great discussions and we all would have liked to have more time to discuss about many topics.
The students said that this was very eye-opening and a good reminder for them.
Right after the high school-project half of our team went by bus to Dalsbruk to participate as volunteers in a project called "On the Run". This method is invented by the Red Cross and it is a 24 hour roleplay. The participants in this roleplay are refugees and they are under these 24 hours living the life that all the refugees in the world are living on a daily basis.
On Wednesday evening we participated in an education for all the volunteers who will take place in the roleplay. There was alot of information in a short while and we went to sleep on madresses on the schoolfloor with our brains struggling with itself because of all the info.
When we were in Dalsbruk the roleplay was only (!!) 12 hours because the participants were too young to handle the 24 hour-version.
The participants were running around in the forest, filling out papers that they maybe didn't understand, came to a countryboarder where the guards were not so nice and so on.
We, the members of team Noving, was playing roles like guards, pathleaders, hunters so we didn't have to live the life of refugees but we got to know alot about the process and the daily life of refugees around the world today.
Friday morning two of our team members went to a school in Tammisaari to hold interactive workshops about racism.
On our training session on Friday we had a feedback about this week as a whole and we are proud of what we have done to contribute to a society with less racism in it!
And we sincerely hope that something like this will become a yearly event that becoming Bachelor of Humanities develop into something bigger.
with alot of love from Dalle
On The Run - foreigner's point of view
On Thursday the 21st of March we've had a unique opportunity to be part of the On The Run project. It took place at Dalsbruk elementary school and I'm going to describe it from an aspect of exchange students.
On Wednesday evening there was an lecture about the event. It was in Swedish but Ada and Minerva had been translating the most important parts to us ( Thank you !!!).We may have been disadvantaged during the lecture but on the other hand not understanding of Swedish was an asset during the next day. At least at Pathfinder / Guide roles, since we were not supposed to understand what were the youngsters talking about, we've had it a lot easier. Although the gaps between the roles had been about 1,5 hour the day went by quite fast. I think it was a great experience both for us and for the kids. When I've been talking with Veronika we both agreed that this is a great way to show young people the difficult situation on the refugees and that we could and should try to realize this in Czech Republic.
On Wednesday evening there was an lecture about the event. It was in Swedish but Ada and Minerva had been translating the most important parts to us ( Thank you !!!).We may have been disadvantaged during the lecture but on the other hand not understanding of Swedish was an asset during the next day. At least at Pathfinder / Guide roles, since we were not supposed to understand what were the youngsters talking about, we've had it a lot easier. Although the gaps between the roles had been about 1,5 hour the day went by quite fast. I think it was a great experience both for us and for the kids. When I've been talking with Veronika we both agreed that this is a great way to show young people the difficult situation on the refugees and that we could and should try to realize this in Czech Republic.
tisdag 12 mars 2013
CULTURE CRASH 5.6-7.6.2013!
5.6-7.6 är det dags för Culture Crash i Raseborg.
Evenemanget riktar sig till ungdomar i 13 års ålder uppåt och är i workshopsformat.
Det går ut på att ungdomarna väljer en workshop som de jobbar intensivt med i 3 dagars tid som dras av professionella handledare som har anknytning till Raseborg.
Deltagaravgiften för detta evenemang kommer att vara 30 euro/pers. Där ingår Lunch alla tre dagar, busstransport från Karis-Ekenäs och tillbaka alla evenemangs dagar och eventuellt en t-skjorta med evenemangets logo på. Under Fredag kvällen kommer vi att avsluta hela evenemanget med en Fest där deltagarna får visa upp vad de lärt sig och umgås tillsammans.
Projektgruppen består av Ian Granström från Anl. Noving, Elin Sundell från team React och vi samarbetar även med olika ungdomsorganisationer och kulturarbetare från Raseborg.
Vår samarbetsgrupp består av Anna Packalén, Otto Metsämäki,
Melinda Lönnberg, Sara Avdi och Andreas Kåll.
Vi samarbetar även med Raseborgs ungdomsfullmäktige och kulturbyrån i Raseborg.
Vi erbjuder olika workshops för deltagarna
Bland annat:
Capoeira
Beatbox
Konst
Hantverk
Bänd/Sång
Parkour
Dj
Foto
Poetry slam
Vi ordnar detta evenemang för att erbjuda ungdomar i Raseborg ett tillfälle att testa på olika aktiviteter som inte är så kända bland de unga i kommunen just nu. Även att synliggöra den kunskap och de kompetenser som våra workshop dragare har.Vi har även en vision av att ordna detta projekt som ett kontinuerligt evenemang i kommunen. Vi tycker att det är viktigt att satsa på verksamhet för ungdomarna i vår kommun.
Vi håller som bäst på att pussla ihop ett program som lockar så många ungdomar som möjligt och har även fullt upp med marknadsföringen och kontaktar eventuella sponsorer för detta projekt.
Kontakta oss gärna ifall ni har eventuella frågor eller ideér.
Vi tar emot alla idéer och hjälp vi får.
<3,
Sofia Haglund
Projektledare
Evenemanget riktar sig till ungdomar i 13 års ålder uppåt och är i workshopsformat.
Det går ut på att ungdomarna väljer en workshop som de jobbar intensivt med i 3 dagars tid som dras av professionella handledare som har anknytning till Raseborg.
Deltagaravgiften för detta evenemang kommer att vara 30 euro/pers. Där ingår Lunch alla tre dagar, busstransport från Karis-Ekenäs och tillbaka alla evenemangs dagar och eventuellt en t-skjorta med evenemangets logo på. Under Fredag kvällen kommer vi att avsluta hela evenemanget med en Fest där deltagarna får visa upp vad de lärt sig och umgås tillsammans.
Projektgruppen består av Ian Granström från Anl. Noving, Elin Sundell från team React och vi samarbetar även med olika ungdomsorganisationer och kulturarbetare från Raseborg.
Vår samarbetsgrupp består av Anna Packalén, Otto Metsämäki,
Melinda Lönnberg, Sara Avdi och Andreas Kåll.
Vi samarbetar även med Raseborgs ungdomsfullmäktige och kulturbyrån i Raseborg.
Vi erbjuder olika workshops för deltagarna
Bland annat:
Capoeira
Beatbox
Konst
Hantverk
Bänd/Sång
Parkour
Dj
Foto
Poetry slam
Vi ordnar detta evenemang för att erbjuda ungdomar i Raseborg ett tillfälle att testa på olika aktiviteter som inte är så kända bland de unga i kommunen just nu. Även att synliggöra den kunskap och de kompetenser som våra workshop dragare har.Vi har även en vision av att ordna detta projekt som ett kontinuerligt evenemang i kommunen. Vi tycker att det är viktigt att satsa på verksamhet för ungdomarna i vår kommun.
Vi håller som bäst på att pussla ihop ett program som lockar så många ungdomar som möjligt och har även fullt upp med marknadsföringen och kontaktar eventuella sponsorer för detta projekt.
Kontakta oss gärna ifall ni har eventuella frågor eller ideér.
Vi tar emot alla idéer och hjälp vi får.
<3,
Sofia Haglund
Projektledare
söndag 10 mars 2013
WAR Novia, Roparnäs
Hello guys,
The title WAR, is not a war between the campuses in Novia, no. It is for Week Against Racism.
A little about the week itself. Ofcourse as the name says, it's against racism and this week is mostly noticed by Red Cross. So our team wanted to make projects during this week, to make a point about it - about what racism and what discrimination is and also make it a yearly event. There are many in our team that are going to do projects around the subject this week, but you can read about that week 12, when the week falls on :)
I wanted to cooperate with the campus in Roparnäs. I know that they are speaking English there, since the Nursing students are a multicultural group, with students from Africa, Asia and actually not that many from Finland.
The project group- Minerva, Julia, Veronika and Martin and me, had a brainstorming about it and decided that the project's content will be communication, human rights and project work and teambuilding :)
They are having a course in Project work and teambuilding in their studies, so what could be better than us teaching them, since it's our daily studies. They are doing their project to the International Nurses day, in May and we are going to work as their coaches.
The title WAR, is not a war between the campuses in Novia, no. It is for Week Against Racism.
A little about the week itself. Ofcourse as the name says, it's against racism and this week is mostly noticed by Red Cross. So our team wanted to make projects during this week, to make a point about it - about what racism and what discrimination is and also make it a yearly event. There are many in our team that are going to do projects around the subject this week, but you can read about that week 12, when the week falls on :)
I wanted to cooperate with the campus in Roparnäs. I know that they are speaking English there, since the Nursing students are a multicultural group, with students from Africa, Asia and actually not that many from Finland.
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| Brainstorming to the project |
They are having a course in Project work and teambuilding in their studies, so what could be better than us teaching them, since it's our daily studies. They are doing their project to the International Nurses day, in May and we are going to work as their coaches.
We will go there week 13, Monday and Tuesday. And as a jackpot, we're also going to Korsholms gymnasium at Wednesday and have a workshop with them about communication and human rights :)
I am happy for this project and I am lucky to have this project group with me, and I am greatful to be a part of Noving.
Have a nice week
julle
Have a nice week
julle
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