Business education
Business education teaches you the ways of being an entrepreneur
Turku Vocational Institute focuses on business education. Students learn business skills at Innovation Camps, among others, which are attended by students from nearly all fields of study as part of their common modules.
To support your personal business planning as well as the Business Planning and Business Operation modules, we will organise thematic coaching for business operations in the autumn and spring terms. Students who are planning business activities are encouraged to complete the optional module Business Planning.
During the academic year or holidays, students can, for example, flexibly run a 4H business and participate in events and marketplaces organised for young entrepreneurs.
Business of Dreams – read seamstress Venla Meriläinen’s business story in TAITOnews magazine (in Finnish)
Objectives of business education
- To boost education on business.
- To promote an entrepreneurial operating culture: joy, enthusiasm and inspiration as sources of innovation for running a business.
- To develop business pedagogy (team learning, projects, problem-based learning PBL, learning café, learning by doing).
- To boost cooperation with businesses (entrepreneur visits, advisors, assignments).
- To organise events for students to practice running a business.
- To encourage young adults to participate in business events aimed at them.
- To boost cooperation with organisations that support young businesspeople, such as 4H and Varsin Hyvä.
- To include the services of the TAI cooperative as a learning environment.
- To develop the business education offered by the Vocational Institute.
Turku Vocational Institute business education coordinator
Raili Selinheimo
Tel. 040 359 5054