SEiSC

🇫🇮 Helsinki, the end of a week, the start of something that stays

The experiential training in Helsinki draws to a close. The VET teachers who travelled in from across Europe have received their certificates and are heading back to their schools with a toolkit made of methods, instruments and content.

Four days inside Agora Lake, inside the pedagogical escape room, inside the wider landscape of XR tools for teaching. Four days in which teachers stepped away from teaching for a moment to become students again, going first-hand through what they will be asking their own students to do.

What stays is not just in the certificates. It stays in the confidence built with tools that, only a week ago, were names on a screen. It stays in the lesson plans sketched out on the final afternoon, ready to be taken into the classroom. And above all it stays in the network of colleagues formed over these days, a European network of teachers who now share the same pedagogical language and who will be able to keep the conversation going long after the project ends.

Thanks to LHKK and 3DBear for hosting the week, to Raija Salo, Pekka Salokannel, Anu Kaseva and Erina Guraziu for leading it. And thanks to the teachers who chose to put themselves on the line.

The SEiSC project continues. The Agora Lake platform now enters its final testing phase with students and teachers from the six countries of the consortium, ahead of the project's close in October 2026.

#SEiSC #ErasmusPlus #VET #TeacherTraining #Helsinki #AgoraLake #SustainableEntrepreneurship

Forssan ammatti-instituutti
3DBear
OpenCom Italy
TU Dublin / OT Baile Átha Cliath
Praktica, Training & Consulting
Centro Formación Internacional Reina Isabel
Ortaköy 80. Yıl Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
Euro Education Bulgaria

The final day in Helsinki, and the logic of the week comes full circle. After experiencing Agora Lake as students and working through the escape room as a method, the VET teachers step into the workshop of XR tools, the ones they will use to design their own simulation-based content.

The day, led by Pekka Salokannel of 3DBear, opens with a keynote on the landscape of virtual simulation in education: where we stand today, what works in the classroom, what remains experimental ground. Then comes the hands-on tour of the toolkit, from immersive 360° simulations to AI-powered avatars, from VR/XR headsets to the Simuna virtual learning environment, each introduced through demonstration and direct practice.

The afternoon closes the loop with the most demanding session of the week: designing their own simulation-based lesson. Here the teachers pull together what they have seen over three days and translate it into a teaching plan that fits their own classroom context.
The training is sealed by Raija Salo of LHKK handing over the certificates. But the real outcome of the week is not the document itself: it lies in these teachers heading back to their schools with fresh tools and methods to work with.

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🇪🇺 Co-funded by the European Union | Erasmus+ KA2 | Project n. 2023-1-FI01-KA220-VET-000160581

#SEiSC #ErasmusPlus #VET #XR #ImmersiveLearning #TeacherTraining #VirtualSimulation

Forssan ammatti-instituutti
3DBear
OpenCom Italy
TU Dublin / OT Baile Átha Cliath
Praktica, Training & Consulting
Centro Formación Internacional Reina Isabel
Ortaköy 80. Yıl Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
Euro Education Bulgaria

Day one of the experiential training in Helsinki, and the roles are reversed: the VET teachers who travelled in from across Europe sit on the other side of the desk and experience Agora Lake the way their own students will.

The day is led by Erina Guraziu of OpenCom, who introduced the platform and walked the teachers through registration and their first steps into the simulation environment, with Pekka Salokannel of 3DBear on hand. Then the real work began.

The morning focused on the first stretch of the learning journey, the one built around understanding and applying: teachers tackled the sustainability challenge set on an alpine lake, with the fictional EcoTrack Solutions as narrative anchor, and saw the adaptive mechanism at work. Correct answers unlock the main path; repeated mistakes trigger guided activities that revisit the same concept from a different angle.

The afternoon raised the bar. The stretch of the journey devoted to creation, where students stop answering and start designing.
Design Thinking, the Business Model Canvas through a Triple Bottom Line lens, prototyping of sustainable solutions. All of it tested first-hand, followed by an evaluation questionnaire that captured teachers' impressions before the training moves on.

Tomorrow the register changes: Anu Kaseva of LHKK introduces the pedagogical escape room .

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🇪🇺 Co-funded by the European Union | Erasmus+ KA2 | Project n. 2023-1-FI01-KA220-VET-000160581

#SEiSC #ErasmusPlus #VET #AgoraLake #ImmersiveLearning #TeacherTraining #XR

Forssan ammatti-instituutti
3DBear
OpenCom Italy
TU Dublin / OT Baile Átha Cliath
Praktica, Training & Consulting
Centro Formación Internacional Reina Isabel
Ortaköy 80. Yıl Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
Euro Education Bulgaria

From 5 to 8 May 2026, vocational education teachers from across Europe gather in Helsinki for an experiential training on immersive technologies applied to teaching sustainable entrepreneurship. They are the teachers selected among those who completed the SEiSC MOOC, representing the countries of the project consortium.
The week is hosted in Helsinki by LHKK and 3DBear. At the heart of the training sits Agora Lake, the virtual simulation platform developed by OpenCom, which will also lead the session introducing the platform and guiding teachers through the testing.
The programme unfolds along three lines. Day one is devoted to Agora Lake: teachers step into the shoes of their students and work through the adaptive learning path built around a sustainability challenge in the smart clothing sector. Day two turns to the pedagogical escape room, a game-based method teachers can bring back into their own classrooms. Day three opens up the wider toolbox of XR: 360° simulations, AI-driven avatars, VR headsets, virtual learning environments, the building blocks teachers will use to design their own simulation-based lessons.
The point is not to hand teachers a set of technical skills, but to equip them to rethink how they teach, weaving simulation, storytelling and interaction into the fabric of their lessons.

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🇪🇺 Co-funded by the European Union | Erasmus+ KA2 | Project n. 2023-1-FI01-KA220-VET-000160581

#SEiSC #ErasmusPlus #VET #SustainableEntrepreneurship #SmartClothing #XR #ImmersiveLearning #teachertraining
Photo CC BY 4.0 | Autor Suomen Ilmakuva Oy | Wikimedia Commons

Forssan ammatti-instituutti
3DBear
OpenCom Italy
TU Dublin / OT Baile Átha Cliath
Praktica, Training & Consulting
Centro Formación Internacional Reina Isabel
Ortaköy 80. Yıl Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
Euro Education Bulgaria