Riitta Pistokoski

Riitta Pistokoski

My name is Riitta Pistokoski, M.Soc.Sc and teacher from Vocational College Lappia from Finnish Lapland. I have a long experience in teaching in both Vocational Colleges and Universities of Applied Sciences. I have also been involved for twenty years in producing digital learning material and working in international settings. I am responsible for international activities as well as student and staff mobility in my work unit. I have been teaching in English for several years in multicultural study groups as part of the Bachelor’s Degree programme in Social Services at the Diaconia University of Applied sciences.

I have also produced and tutored many on-line courses in both English and Finnish in a variety of subjects such as Multiculturalism, Work life skills, Ethics and Green care for Hospitality sector. I have participated in several Erasmus teacher exchange programs in Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Romania, Estonia, Italy, Great Britain and Nepal. I have organized international study camps (IP) in Finland, Romania and Nepal and have been supervising and guiding exchange students from many different countries.

I have a husband and five kids (most of them adults), two cats and a dog. I love being in the forest, picking mushrooms and berries or hunting in the autumn – or just walking end enjoying the nature. I also enjoy cooking good food (from self-hunted meat 😊), reading and watching movies. And I never get tired of learning more about new cultures and new people. Lappia

Bridge the Ocean project

Bridge the Ocean is a partnership project of the Erasmus+ program, which creates a model of global mobility and cooperation between European and Canadian Colleges.

The partners are four vocational education and training (VET) colleges from Finland, two from Canada and one from the Netherlands and Denmark. In the project, two European and one Canadian study units are planned, which will be piloted with a multinational group during the project.

The project is the first European Erasmus+ VET project that involves partners from outside Europe. The main goals of the Bridge the Ocean partnership project are to increase the number of global mobility of students and experts, teachers, and at the same time promote the development of both professional and international competence and key skills.

The project seeks visibility and interest in the internationalization of VET.

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BIDS

Bridging Inclusion Digitalization & Sustainability
The BIDS project has three main objectives.

Building and strengthening partnerships to support the implementation and development of internationalization strategies.
Supporting the quality of staff and student mobility between two continents
Combining the previous two goals in such a way that we create a model of how the priorities of the Erasmus+ program, inclusion, digitalization, and sustainability, can be realized in the strategies of the VET providers.

The partners are four vocational education and training colleges from Finland, two from Canada, and one from Portugal, the Netherlands and Denmark.

The project will consist of three different modules: a Sustainability module in Nova Scotia Canada, a Digitalization module in the Netherlands, and an Inclusion module in Finland. These modules will be attended by students and staff from participating partner schools, representing a mix of different educational sectors. We believe that this diverse group will not only enhance students’ soft skills but also foster their international competences.

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