Aalto Co-Educator Team (ACE)

The Aalto Co-Educator team supports and collaborates with teachers, programme directors and faculty members. The team’s goal is to integrate solutions for sustainability through a lens of radical creativity, and entrepreneurial mindset into existing courses and programmes. Our eight enthusiastic experts in the three cross-cutting themes, pedagogy, training, and teamwork are here to support you.
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In the face of an increasing need to address complex and global challenges, universities and teachers need to facilitate students' learning of competencies for working with complexity and creating holistic and systemic solutions.

The Aalto Co-Educator (ACE) team supports such teaching development by integrating meaningful learning goals from sustainability, entrepreneurship and creativity into courses and programmes. We provide hands-on support for curriculum development to programme directors and for course development and pedagogical training to teachers.

The common goal of Aalto's teaching faculty is to enable the building of competencies for our students. In collaboration with our teacher community, the ACE team aims to provide students with tools for shaping a sustainable future. Our aim is that every Aalto graduate can contribute to sustainability solutions through a lens of radical creativity and an entrepreneurial mindset.

The project started in the autumn of 2021 with pilots on course and programme development. In 2022, we expanded our activities across all the schools. Throughout 2023, we've had curriculum development workshops with the School of Science, School of Arts, and defined programmes in the School of Electrical Engineering and the School of Engineering. Our project will continue until 2024.

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Teachers working together to build new competencies.

Aalto Co-Educator for Teachers

We collaborate with teachers to integrate sustainability, radical creativity and entrepreneurial mindset into courses.

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Aalto Co-Educator for Programme Directors

Our aim is to facilitate curriculum development process together with programme directors.

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Aalto Co-Educator for Students

We've asked students, ‘What have you always wanted to know about sustainability, but haven't dared to ask?’

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Resources

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Solutions for Sustainability, Entrepreneurial Mindset, Radical Creativity: How do the cross-cutting themes affect your teaching at Aalto University?

The Aalto Co-Educator (ACE) team happily collaborates with teachers and programme directors to integrate the cross-cutting themes into courses and curricula.

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Opiskelua. Kuvituskuva uutiseen.

What does 'Radical Creativity in Teaching' really mean?

The Aalto Co-Educator team supports teachers to integrate solutions for sustainability into programmes and courses via a lens of radical creativity and entrepreneurial mindset.

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Aalto-yliopisto/ Unto Rautio

An Entrepreneurial Mindset: What Does it Mean in Teaching?

Integrate an entrepreneurial mindset into your course and curricula with competencies drafted by the Aalto Co-Educator team.

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Teachers and students walking outdoors. They're discussion the Sustainability in Teaching course.

Solutions for Sustainability: What Does it Mean in Teaching?

Learn more about solutions for sustainability and teamwork competencies and their integration into courses and curricula. 

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Our Team

 Elina Kähkönen

Elina Kähkönen

Project lead
 Noora Jaakkola

Noora Jaakkola

Curriculum development
 Meeri Karvinen

Meeri Karvinen

Solutions for sustainability
 Paulo Dziobczenski

Paulo Dziobczenski

Radical creativity
 Håkan Mitts

Håkan Mitts

Entrepreneurial mindset
 Tuomo Eloranta

Tuomo Eloranta

Multidisciplinarity
 Riikka Evans

Riikka Evans

Pedagogical specialist
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