TFK 2025, Team Finland Knowledge programme

NEEDS ANALYSIS AND ROLES OF PARTNERS:
• The project responds to an educational need that has broader significance in regard to cooperation between the countries, and the project provides clear additional value in relation to prior initiatives.
• The planned activities are relevant to the participating higher education institutions.
• The project composition is well justified and the responsibilities, roles and tasks of the involved higher education institutions are clearly described.
• The participating higher education institutions have an institutional commitment to and interest in the activities, they participate e.g. in the costs by allocating their own funding in the project.
QUALITY OF COOPERATION, ACTIVITY DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION:
• The activities are realistically planned, clearly described and appropriately spread over the project period. The project describes clearly how the planned activities will be covered by the applied funding.
• The project does not remain a one-off, but is integrated into the normal operation of the higher education institutions.
• Quality aspects are taken into account in the activities and the progress/successes, etc. of the project are monitored.
• The risk analysis addresses the risks associated with project activities, such as partner withdrawals, recruitment challenges, the misuse of resources and the potential harmful environmental impacts of the project. Additionally, it evaluates the realization of academic values, freedom of speech, and non-discrimination, as well as risks related to dual-use technologies.
• The following are also taken into account in projects involving student mobility: The project’s partnerships and the number of mobilities applied for are proportional to the number of participating higher education institutions and the realisation plans of the mobilities are realistic. The support services for marketing, preparation, implementation and follow-up of the applied mobility activities are in place. There are processes in place for recognising the participating students’ learning outcomes (such as ECTS and other mechanisms).
RESULTS AND IMPACT:
• The expected results are concretely and realistically described and will remain a part of the higher education institutions’ operations after the project period.
• The impact of the planned activities is described from the perspective of the participants and organisations in Finland and the target countries.
• The activities/results of the project support the internationalisation of the students and staff of the participating higher education institutions beyond the persons/parties participating in the projects.
• The project has operating methods in place for communicating about the activities and results of the project period.