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Sino-Finland Education Network: Building Up the Bridge
between China and Finland from FERC’s Perspective
Dr. LIU Baocun
Institute of International and Comparative Education,
Beijing Normal University
[email protected]
Why cooperate
with Finland?
What we
have done?
New challenges
and problems
Towards a
higher level
Why cooperate with Finland?
Finland
 Forest
 Nokia ?
 Angry Bird
 Education
 Innovation
The Finnish Way of educational change
should be encouraging to those who have
found the path of competition, choices,
test-based accountability , and
performance-based pay to be a dead end.
The future of Finnish education described
above can moreover offer an alternative
means to customized learning ( Sahlberg,
2011).
The Finnish Model ?
Low workload.
High achievement.
 Equity.
Diversity.
Personaliztion.
Inclusiveness.
What have we done in education cooperation?
BNU has already been involved in CEREC’s activities
through a variety of projects and individual collaborations.
1.
Research cooperation: The Sino-Finnish Higher Education Forum ( On
October 21 last year, Beijing Normal University continued to send
representatives to attend the Third Sino-Finnish Higher Education Forum.)
2.
Teacher Exchanges: Professor Wang Yingjie , Professor Liu Baocun of Beijing
Normal University went to give lectures in succession and were highly
welcomed in the local. Professor Seppo Hölttä, the director of higher
education center in the University of Tampere, was hired as a visiting
professor of Institute of International and Comparative Education in Beijing
Normal University.
3.
Student exchanges: two BNU doctors visited University of Tampere as visiting
scholars in succession.
4.
EU project: Beijing Normal University and the University of Tampere were
involved in the Erasmus Mundus Action 1 and Erasmus Mundus Action 2
projects respectively.
5.
CIMO China Cooperation Fund: a two-year "Sino-Finnish joint training
curriculum development projects for higher education managers.“
6.
The Africa Project in Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of
Education
7.
Doctoral project of the Academy of Finland
• Finnish Education Research Centre was established in
the International and Comparative Education Research
Institute (IICE)at Beijing Normal University (BNU) on
October 28, 2013.
A bridge and a platform between the two
countries in the field of education.
— The Role of FERC
Missions of FERC
to deepen the mobility and cooperation in the field of
education between China and Finland.
to increase the research on Finnish education.
 to promote the Finnish success in education.
Key tasks of FERC
 To conduct research on Chinese and Finnish education;
 To provide policy consultations on Sino-Finland education
cooperation and facilitate educational policy dialogues between
the two countries;
 To experiment joint educational and degree programs in the
field of education and suggest appropriate models for joint
education and degrees in other disciplines;
 To develop Sino-Finland educational training curriculum and
quality assurance standards;
 To organize high level Sino-Finland education conferences;
New opportunities, challenges and problems
in Sino-Finland education cooperation
New opportunities
 Best bilateral relation between two countries
 A new wave of education reform
 Increasing demand for teaching training
 Increasing number of Chinese student going abroad
 More investment in education both by the state and family
New challenges
 Who are the best? ：World-class education criterion and competition
among education systems
 Global education are consuming Chinese international students and
in-service teachers.
New problems
 Disorder in Sino-Finland cooperation
 Lack of a network and coordination
 Lack of systematic research
Towards a higher level of Sino-Finland cooperation
Sino-Finland Education Network: Building Up the
Bridge between China and Finland

Sino-Finland Education Network: FERC plus CEREC
provides a solid platform and network for cooperation
and coordination.
 A network for all.
CERCE
FERC
This is Finnish Education
 Tell the Chinese the true story of Finnish education.
 Develop a brand and standard in teacher training
Localization of Finnish experiences
LOOKING FORWARDS TO YOUR ENGAGEMENT IN
Sino-Finland Education Network
Thank You