Dr. Riitta Juusenaho is an expert of Finnish education system. She has 27 years of experience as a teacher and a principal in comprehensive education and she has made her doctoral dissertation in 2004 about leadership and management styles of Finnish comprehensive school principals from the perspective of gender.  

Dr. Juusenaho has also worked as a Research and Evaluation Manager in the City of Tampere and her main task then was to develop evaluation systems of public services in the City of Tampere. After this, she worked four years as a Project Director in TOP School -project. Her responsibility then was to develop and to coordinate widely learning environments at every educational level so that schools in the City of Tampere can respond to the need of 21st-century skills and to offer the best possible learning experiences for all children and youth.

Riitta Juusenaho has worked also as a Director of Education and Culture in a municipality called Ruovesi. At the moment she works as a Project Director in Tampere Adult Education Center. Her task here is to develop Educational School Camps for international students all over the world.

Veteran teacher and ex-Principal of Kirkkojarvi School, Espoo who have been instrumental in developing Finnish learning experiences since the 1970s. 

International trainer and researcher for Education and learning through paintings. She has been visiting different countries to make teachers aware of the teaching through drawing and painting, mainly the form painting. Follows Waldorf pedagogy and teacher from Steiner School, Tampere. She is an expert teacher of arts and paintings for 30+ years and has participated in many international exhibitions with her students.

Researcher in the field of Creative Thinking and education for more than 12 years. Research Areas:

Creativity and School Environment

Comparative study between India and Finland

CII (Creativity-identity Interaction) model

Narrative teaching techniques

Experienced trainer and psychologist

Research Director, CCE Finland

Experienced teacher, trainer, lecturer and textbook writer (20+ years). Enthusiastic about professional development, teaching, and learning. She has a long career as an EFL and entrepreneurship teacher and institutional coach. She has worked on the National Core Curriculum with The Finnish National Agency for Education on multiple occasions. Her key competencies are EFL, Team learning, phenomenon based learning and entrepreneurship at school.

Miia Bergman has been a teacher of mathematics, chemistry, and ICT at Tampere Rudolf Steiner School since 2002. She has graduated as Master of Science in Engineering at the Tampere University of Technology. In addition to being the teacher for the past three years, she has been the headmaster of the school's secondary level. She has also worked as a member of the national board of the Waldorf education in Finland since 2016. Her work has included developing the school's organizational as well as pedagogical issues following the trends of the modern times. So nowadays she is specialized not only in teaching mathematics but also, in general, the operation of the second level in Finland.

Elena is an education expert with a broad background in International and Comparative Education, Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, and Education Research. Her particular strengths are hands-on pre-primary education management and teaching experiences in multicultural and multilingual settings. Among the key interests are learning theories and practices, Early Childhood Education curriculum development and implementation, strategies for working with children with behavioral and learning difficulties.

Antti has done MA and is a Finnish Teacher, Principal at Steiner School, Tampere (Upper secondary school). Antti has a vast experience in connecting subjects & developing phenomena- and theme-based learning in upper secondary education.

Ida Piltonen is studying MDP in Teacher Education at the University of Tampere to become a classroom teacher. She has finished her Bachelor's degree and her thesis focused on analyzing the concept of equality in Finnish education. In her MDP studies, she will specialize in governance and education politics. She is also a member of the committee in the service area of Vitality and Competitiveness in the city of Tampere that focuses on entrepreneurship and upper secondary education.