On 12th of September 2023, DiLiPoCo -project will organise a seminar on digitalisation and digital literacy in schools in the Baltic Sea region. Event will be organised in person in Tampere, Finland and is open for interested participants. Working language of the event is English. Please register for the event here by 1.9.2023. Note that places are limited.

Tuesday 12.9.2023

Final agenda will be sent to the registered attendees at the end of August.

Venue: Culture House Laikku, Room: Luentosali, Keskustori 4, 33100 Tampere

9:15 Morning coffee and registration
9:30 Welcoming words

Esa Kokkonen, Director, The Baltic Institute of Finland

9:45 Keynote: Education for the future: Contextual development of emerging literacies

Dr. Lauri Palsa, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Jyväskylä.

10:15 DiLiPoCo project: key findings on surveys targeted to schools and teachers

Tampere University

10:45 Break
11:00 Selected cases on digitalisation in schools in the Baltic Sea region

Maarit Jaakkola, PhD, Associate Professor, Co-Director Nordicom, Nordic Centre for Media Research, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Kerli Požogina, Project Manager (digital competence and digital training), Department of Innovation and Cooperation, Education and Youth Board, Estonia

Lāsma Lancamane, acting head of the Education Board and head of the Administrative Board of the Education, Culture and Sports Department of Riga City Council, Latvia

Nathalie Damgaard Frisch, Journalist, Fact-checking media TjekDet, Denmark 

13:30 Lunch break
14:30 Digitalisation in schools in Tampere

Ville Raatikainen, Head of Basic Education, the City of Tampere

15:00 Findings of the research: Schooling, teaching, and well-being of school community during the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland

Mari-Pauliina Vainikainen, Professor, Leader of Research Group for Education, Assessment and Learning REAL, Faculty of Education and Culture

15:45-16:00 Wrap-up and closing

Esa Kokkonen, Director, The Baltic Institute of Finland

Contact person

Jenny Uusikartano, Specialist, The Baltic Institute of Finland
jenny.uusikartano@tampere.fi