EDUFI Winter School for Russian and Ukrainian post-graduate students

In the winter school, you’ll get a chance to work and have discussions with teachers and other students. The working methods developed and used in the winter school will allow you to demonstrate your

• knowledge
• team working skills
• ability to solve problems
• academic presentation skills, and
• creativity.

We collect feedback from both students at the winter school and researchers whose teams winter school participants have later worked in. The winter school is regarded as an excellent catalyst for Finnish research, researcher training and international cooperation.

Students have been very satisfied with the programmes of the winter schools, their working methods as well as the practical arrangements.

“Interesting mixture of lectures and teamwork.”

“Discovering state-of-the-art research and innovations by leading scientists.”

“Pedagogical methods and tasks that encourage different and creative thinking.”

“This course helped me to systematize my knowledge and understand what I didn't understand.”

“Usefulness of multidisciplinary approach: out of the box – thinking…see differences in approaches to same problems.”

“Better understanding of the taxonomy of disciplines: differences and relatedness, new ideas, perspectives and insights, cooperation with people from different academic backgrounds.”

“It was very nice that teachers were around even during leisure time and open to share their experience and get to know the participants better.”

”Thank you for this chance; it possibly will change my life.”