RDI - Individual work
What is the policy
towards RDI in various Finnish educational organisations (such as adult
institutes, universities of applied sciences, universities, vocational schools,
secondary schools, primary schools), ie. how much time can teachers and staff
devote to RDI?
Is RDI important or
non-existent in your own organisation?
All institutes in Finland have a strategic plan which normally is planned for the next 5 years. The strategy is planned with different actors. The main ones are:
1. being the city where the institute is
2. the need of the city
3. higher management decision.
Normally,
the amount of RDI resource allocated at adult institutes and universities of
applied sciences are about the same. They are around 50 hours for each staff. This
can be more or less depending on the field the teaching staff is. This hours
can be put under the personal development of the teacher. The total number of
hours a teacher has to teach per year according to legislation is 1624 hours. However,
teaching staff can be part of a project, the project in question can be a
project funded by, for example, the EU, Ministry of Education of Finland or the
city. In such case, the RDI time allocated to the teacher can be around 400
hours per academic semester. The teacher can work as a project leader or
consultant or manager of the project. Universities, however, may have slightly
different policies whereby teaching and RDI can be around half of the resources
allocated to a teacher. This is because universities are more researched focus.
The amount
of RDI a university, university of applied sciences, adult institutes and
vocational education provide has a relation to the way RDI is funded, for
example, if the Finnish government is giving a big percentage share of money to
develop RDI projects that will benefit the society and or the immediate
surrounding where the institution in question is; the institution will
automatically be launched new projects. One example can be the integration of
immigrants in the north Karelia region because of a high influx of immigrants
from various countries like Syria, the Finnish government propose different
funding for educational institution to evaluate and accreditate level of
competence and knowledge of these immigrants in Finland to help them integrate
in society and find work. As such, educational institution like Karelia UAS and
University of Eastern Finland started new RDI projects.
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