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Standards and working conditions 13 September 2023 Elevating Teachers' Voices to the High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession
Educators from around the world expressed their concerns about the global teacher shortage, sharing firsthand experiences which highlight the detrimental implications for their classrooms and school communities. Their testimonies were part of consultations organised by Education International to bring the voices of educators to the UN High-Level Panel on the...
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Union renewal and development 21 January 2022 Finland: Using social media to promote education union’s development cooperation and solidarity work
Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö (OAJ) proactively uses social media to inform its members about its development cooperation and solidarity work. The union has allocated part of its membership fee to this form of promotion, which has increased members’ understanding of and commitment to development cooperation and solidarity work.
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Union renewal and development 30 November 2021 OAJ Finland international cooperation: Using own resources to ensure autonomy
In 2019, the Finnish education union OAJ decided to allocate 0.7% of its national budget to development cooperation, supporting its cooperation programmes that span several continents.
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Trade union rights are human rights 27 March 2020 Education unions in Nordic countries join forces with public authorities to fight COVID-19 pandemic
Educators in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden are using well-developed social dialogue channels and information technology to help curb the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Climate action and literacy 4 November 2019 Finland: Leading education event in Nordic countries welcomes international participants
The Trade Union of Education in Finland (OAJ) invites educators from across the world to Educa’s 25th anniversary edition and its first international programme in English on 24 and 25 January in Helsinki.
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Union renewal and development 6 June 2019 Finland: trade unionists take development cooperation work to heart
Confronted with the elimination of government support, the teacher union Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö, one of Education International’s member organisations, decided to review its international affairs strategy to ensure it can go on leading development cooperation activities in the future.
Finland: trade unionists take development cooperation work to heart
Development Cooperation Projects
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Nordplus Horizontal 2020: Sustainable Ecosystems of Mentoring for Newly Qualified Teachers
- Host organizations
- University of SouthEastern Norway (USN)
- Cooperating organizations
- Danmarks Lærerforening, The Trade Union of Finland (OAJ), The Icelandic Teacher Union, Lärarförbundet, University of SouthEastern Norway (USN)
- Countries
- Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Norway
- Start date
- 2 August 2020
- End date
- 1 August 2023
Affiliates
Finnish Union of University Professors
FUUPRautatieläisenkatu 6 FI-00520 HelsinkiFinnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers
FUURTRautatieläisenkatu 6 FIN 00520 HelsinkiOpetusalan Ammattijärjestö
OAJPO Box PL 20 00521 Helsinki