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Welcome to BEST2025, The Ultimate Benchmarking Experience — a week-long program designed to equip education professionals with insights from top-performing education systems. Whether you're a teacher, principal, or administrator, this course offers practical strategies and best practices to enhance your work at every school level.

Celebrating 20 years of Euneos, BEST2025 marks a milestone in our commitment to professional development. Participants can customize their experience with a wide range of school visits and specialized workshops. We also offer an engaging social agenda, highlighting the best of Helsinki and Tallinn, ensuring valuable networking and cultural experiences.

With many educators from across the globe joining, the event offers an invaluable platform for collaboration and networking. Finland’s and Estonia’s innovative educational approaches provide the backdrop for exploring new teaching methods, practical tools, and job shadowing in schools of your choice.

Whether you're an experienced practitioner or new to the field, this course will support your growth and help you build lasting connections.

Upskill your organization

Target group are the school management, teachers, special education teachers and all other non-teaching experts and staff working in school education, adult education and VET.

This event covers a wide range of topics that schools need to consider and address when introducing and securing innovation in their school:

• Gain insights into world-class educational practices in Finland and Estonia.
• Explore innovative teaching methodologies and practical tools for the classroom.
• Customize professional growth through tailored school visits and workshops.
• Develop intercultural competence and collaborative skills through networking with international educators.
• Enhance leadership and strategic planning for school improvement

The course methodology is interactive and hands-on, blending workshops, expert-led presentations, and collaborative group activities. Participants will visit schools for job shadowing to gain real-world insights and engage in reflective sessions to relate their learning to their own educational environments. This dynamic approach fosters practical application, peer learning, and professional growth in an international setting.

Earn a certificate

The course participants will obtain a Certificate of Active Attendance .

The competences acquired will be validated by the course organizers on the Europass mobility .

What makes Euneos the leading course provider in Europe?

Euneos consistently rises to the challenge, empowering our clients with a wide selection of outstanding courses. We're committed to delivering excellence that meets the Quality Standards for courses under Key Action 1 and Rules of application, Annex I - Erasmus Quality Standards , as required by the European Commission.

On-site courses

The BEST event takes place in Helsinki, Finland for 4 days, from Sunday to Wednesday and/or in Tallinn, Estonia for 3 days from Thursday to Saturday.

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• CONFIRMED 11 - 17 May 2025, Helsinki, Finland/Tallinn, Estonia, Special Spring Event for all school levels

Obligatory meal and transportation package: Helsinki, 4-day, 200€ +  Tallinn, 3-day single course, 130€

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Euneos has an international team of trainers who are the most experienced in the field of their expertise. Meet Euneos' trainers for the Education in Finland and/or Estonia - Original Best Practices Benchmarking course:

Main organiser / trainer

Mart Laanpere, PhD

• Professor at Tallinn University, Estonia
• Head of the R&D Center for Educational Technology at Tallinn University 
• Former mathematics and physics teacher and school principal
• Member of board of course provider Euneos, Finland 

After working as a mathematics & physics teacher and school principal, he has been involved in teacher education and educational technology research for the last 20 years. Mart has been contributing to international research projects focusing on the use of mobile technology and social software in teaching and learning. He is coordinating the training of school teams in the project “Digital Turn towards 1:1 Computing” funded by Samsung ( www.samsungdigipoore.ee ); and expert in school digital innovation and change. 

Petri Ilmonen

• Chair of Board at Language High School of Helsinki
• English teacher, principal and owner of TRYcamps

Tuovi Ronkainen

• Former principal of Akaa Secondary School 
• Student in University of Turku (futures studies), future coach 
• Biology and geography teacher 
• Project Ambassador of ESHA (European School Heads Association)  
• Coordinator of Comenius and Erasmus+ projects in many schools 
• Former network coordinator of Baltic sea Project (National Board of Education) 

She has been working on many ecological projects both at the national and international levels. Her special area is future education: how to get a positive approach to the future and how to get the skills to solve wicked problems like climate change.

Spasia Neshkoska Tsutsuleska 

• International project coordinator 
• Former external expert evaluator for Erasmus+ projects 
• Former eTwinning ambassador 
• Member of the international jury of Eumind projects 
• Former principal of a vocational school in North Macedonia
• Master studies in Education and Globalization, Oulu University, Finland

Euneos choice of venues is based on two essentials: delivering professionalism and assuring personal well-being in order to warrant enjoyable course experience.

Helsinki, Finland

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Tallinn, Estonia

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