SWEDISH CULTURAL FOUNDATION IN FINLAND project: Vårdsvenska 2009-2011 - internet-based courses in Swedish for Russian health care personnel

Website www.vardsvenska.fi

Learnwell Oy is starting to offer internet-based courses in Swedish for Russian health care personnel. When the number of foreign caretakers increases, so does the need for their ability to speak Swedish. For some time now, The Swedish Culture Foundation has studied how they could offer internet-based courses for foreign health care personnel. A possible target group for the development project has turned out to be the Russian-speaking health care personnel who are interested in working in the health care for the elderly in Finland.
The pages are free of charge, and contain healthcare-related material that the nurses can use to study Swedish independently. In addition to Swedish courses, the website contains information on how to apply for work in Finland, links to official pages, information about the Finnish-Swedish community and the elderly care services in Finland. With the help of a CV-tool, you can send applications directly to hospitals, nursing homes, and other care facilities. The registered users may create an applicant profile through which the employers may contact the individual, and there will be a list of job openings on the website.There is material in Swedish, Russian, Finnish, and in English.
The project started during the early fall of 2009 and the website will be launched in the end of 2011.

Download the press release here.

NORDPLUS-projekti, Aiempaa koulutustaustaa omaamattomien maahanmuuttajanaisten pohjoismainen voimaannuttamisverkosto, 2010–2011

Kumppanit: Suomi, Liettua, Ruotsi, Norja
Projektin tavoitteena on luoda pohjoismainen, ammattikoulutusorganisaatioiden, aikuiskoulutusorganisaatioiden, sopeuttamisen ja sukupuolten välisen tasa-arvon parissa työskentelevien kansalaisjärjestöjen, sosiaalitoimistojen ja julkisten työvoimakeskusten muodostama verkosto, joka kokemuksia ja tietoja jakamalla ja yhdistämällä kehittää strategian auttamaan aiempaa koulutustaustaa omaamattomia maahanmuuttajanaisia pääsemään mukaan osallistujamaiden ammattikoulutusjärjestelmään. Verkoston jäsenet laativat strategiaraportin, joka perustuu vapaan sivistystyön metodologiaan joustavimpana opetusmuotona ja pehmeänä alkuna koulutukseen, kun otetaan huomioon kohderyhmän tarpeet.

NORDPLUS/HORIZONTAL project, Language On The Move 2008-2010

Partners: Lithuania, Denmark, Sweden, Estonia

The main purpose of the project was to reach people who use public transport (PT) to travel to Baltic and Nordic countries to work, to study or for other purposes and help them to realise the importance of learning the language of a destination country and to accept norms of courtesies and behaviour they should follow while in a country.
Watch the final product of the project DVD and see  the phrase-book here.