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UEL is happy to announce the Urban Education Live Final Symposium 2020. We kindly invite everyone to join our event on 14th and 15th of December 2020, to exchange our thoughts on the advancements of the consortium, on the current state of live education and to give a start for the new UEL working group…

  We.City is a mobile application that has its aim to help communities to group up, to realize local initiatives and to find expert help. The idea for it was largely developed within the UEL Tampere team, but now it is being developed independently by the group of volunteers and enthusiasts from different fields. This…

  A video that goes more in detail with the PlaySalo game where University students would join high school students on the ground in Finnish city of Salo.

  A video that describes the practical and theoretical background for both the UEL project and more specifically the project of the Tampere Team: PlaySalo.

Shafayet Choudhury from JPI interviews Panu Lehtovuori from Urban Education Live team Tampere about the project: ”More people than ever before obtain a university education, but certain communities, such as the working class and ethnic minorities, are sometimes underrepresented in the university system. Ideally, universities should serve the needs of all members of society. However, universities shouldn’t…

The Tamp team in collaboration with Swetha Rao Dhananka responded to a call for papers as part of the EUCANET project that looks into “City Agencies” Read the full article — from page 88 here Abstract While a common urban agenda at the supranational EU-level, as foreseen by the Amsterdam pact has been established, there are…

Summing up the Play Salo Symposium, May 16, 2019 Play Salo is a game based learning process with the focus on Active citizenship and Urban development. It is a collaboration between Tampere school of architecture, City of Salo and the Salo Highschool. Since beginning of 2017 a number of different pedagogic experiments have been conducted…

Going to the Finnish town of Salo in the first 2 weeks of May 2018 concluded 4 experiments with the goal of developing new curriculum on highschool level that would form at local connection and knowledge that can feed a mutual learning process with the University students and researchers: An educational link between a more…

  In the Tampere team we have been talking about how to integrate a game element into the explorations and Social Mapping that the highschool students are working with in Salo. To get an idea of our work so far — read this text on Salo Stories here. In short this first experiment — done in…

  Salo is well known — in Finland — as a town hard hit by globalisation — Nokia left the city — but it is also a very fragmented physical city structure. The spatial and social aspects merge into divisions between “Salo-locals”, foreigners, old people, young people, the disabled and people living in the centre and countryside.…

    Few people have heard of the Finnish city of Salo. For some it rings a bell when they hear that it was where televisions and radios of the brand Salora was produced. But for most people including citizens of Salo the city will always be linked to the production of Nokia mobile phones…

The conference “Learning from Context” in late September was held in an appropriate location: the Aquarium at Kottbusser Tor next to the Gececondu of Kotti & Co. In other words a hot spot of urban activism and as such a good context to discuss “urban education, knowledge exchange and capacity building”. The conference was the closing event of…

  Tampere School of Architecture provides a five-year integrated graduate programme of Architecture and a two-year international masters of Sustainable Architecture. Both programmes fulfil the EU requirements, thus facilitating free professional mobility in the Union. The School has 8 professors, about 40 members of staff and 400 students. In research, Tampere School of Architecture excels…