Our members

GEST offers professional training and education services in Welfare, ICT, Construction and metal work, Automotive, Logistics as well as Commerce and Services. It adds value by developing, marketing and putting into practise high quality adult education and services needed by students and business life and to support lifelong learning. Continuous improvement, problem solving, co-operation with working life partners and an international element are essential in its vocational education work.

Sanako offers teacher-led language teaching solutions for schools and universities in over 100 countries. Their product range covers language labs, remote teaching solutions and language teaching content.

Workseed is a cloud based LMS for vocational and professional education. Workseed platform speeds up TVET colleges and universities to deploy competency-based education model and to digitalize work-based learning. Workseed acts as a communication channel between the educational institutions and work life. The platform offers easy-to-use tools for creating individual learning paths for learners and modern integrations to student information systems, training simulators and many LTI-compliant learning tools. The platform is available among the others in Finnish, Swedish, English, Spanish and German and it is entrusted by 75% of Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences for managing work-based learning.

Tampere Adult Education Centre, TAKK, is a multisectoral vocational educator and working life developer. TAKK offers basic, further and specialist vocational qualifications and vocational further education in over 20 vocational fields. Education, operations and learning environments are developed in close cooperation with regional employers, companies and working life stakeholders.

Internationally TAKK further educates VET teachers and worklife representatives in key themes of VET quality assurance and management, individual guidance and councelling, developing learning environments and worklife cooperation.

Polar Partners accelerates the world’s transition to 21st century education  - one person, one school and one society at a time.

Polar Partners is a one stop shop for premium quality K-12 education with a proven business model. It helps clients in designing, setting up and developing schools based on Finnish education and 21st century skills ideology with its network of 2000+ Finnish pedagogical experts and partners. Polar Partners has over 20 years of experience in education development. Its first Finnish International School (FIS) was opened in Georgia in 2019, and currently more projects are on the way.

EduExcellence is a global provider of Finnish educational solutions for modern working life needs. Owned by three major Finnish universities of applied sciences, i.e. Haaga-Helia, Laurea and Metropolia. EduExcellence can offer tailor-made services in education model development, professional teacher training, capacity and competence development programmes and courses. All solutions are focused on lifelong learning and future working life competences. With 2500 education experts EduExcellence have successfully implemented educational development solutions in over 20 countries globally.

Sumino provides education export solutions and culture exchange forums/events towards the Chinese market on multiple areas, including teacher training, eduvisits, educational forums, student study tours, sister schools, Finnish kindergarten concept export, vocational training on elderly care, university students recruitment/exchange study, joint degree programs between the universities, esports and winter sports education. 

Sumino fully owns and operates one Finnish style kindergarten in China. Sumino also manages an elderly care alliance which unites 100+ universities, vocational colleges, technology companies, hospitals and elderly homes both in Finland and in China.

Lahdelma & Mahlamäki architects (LMA) is an internationally acclaimed architecture office especially known for their museum projects and education buildings. Renowned for their deep understanding of the impact of history, location and the human touch, LMA architecture stretches far beyond materiality. The founders, Professor Ilmari Lahdelma and Professor Rainer Mahlamäki, have been working together since the 1980s and they have won over 100 prizes in architecture competitions, which makes LMA one of the most experienced and successful Finnish offices. Their principal works include, for example, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (2013), the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences Myllypuro Campus (2019) and the Kastelli School and Community Centre (2014).

Airport College International Ltd. provides online training services for airlines, airport ground handlers and logistics. 

The comprehensive portfolio of online eLearning training courses covers aviation safety, security and service topics. The training service enables clients to train their staff in an efficient and flexible manner and to maintain the competencies required by clients and authorities. Today, we offer several language versions including Chinese, English, Finnish, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish and Thai.

Courses vary in length from 1 to 3 hours, with the primary objective of maintaining the competence of operational staff. To ensure regulatory compliance, course content is based on international training standards set by governing bodies such as IATA, ICAO, FAA and EASA.

Airport College International Ltd., based in Helsinki, is an independent company with a creative approach to your training and employee engagement management. Our services are used in more than 140 countries, and we are represented through our partner network in more than 20 countries in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Airport College International is an IATA Strategic Partner.

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ThingLink helps convert text-based training materials into interactive multimodal learning experiences that can be tracked and shared across devices and platforms. Application areas include vocational and corporate training, employee onboarding, up-skilling, workplace safety and simulations.