Pioneering Finnish education expertise globally

The EduCluster Finland story starts four decades ago at a time when Finnish education was underperforming. Finland made a strategic decision to innovate and build a high-impact educational system.

This extraordinary evolution was achieved by looking outwards to the world for solutions. These solutions were then rooted into real-life education and have grown over time.

As the world observed evidence of Finnish educational success through PISA and other international benchmarking systems, Finland engaged in cycles of continuous refinement, which goes on to this day.

The University of Jyväskylä has long played a central role in re-shaping education in Finland. Over the years, the activities of the University’s individual experts, faculties, and special operating centres have enabled excellence in Finnish education to be internationally recognised.

In 2010, in order to build upon accomplishments and consolidate expertise of three Jyväskylä-based education providers in one capability centre, EduCluster Finland was launched.

Now, 10 years later, we are privileged to work in partnership with governments, ministries, schools and educators from Latin America to East Asia, Northern Europe to South Asia, and across MENA.

We continuously develop our know-how in close collaboration with our three owner organisations:

Jyväskylä Educational Consortium Gradia

is a forerunner in international Finnish accredited vocational qualification programmes and a large-scale provider of general and vocational upper secondary education.

The University of Jyväskylä

is an international centre of excellence, home to PISA, TIMSS, PIRLS, and PIAAC. In the field of Education, it is positioned among the world’s top 40 in the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2019, the top 100 in THE World University 2019 rankings, and the top 150 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2019.

JAMK University of Applied Sciences

is an established international higher education institution, which specialises in eight key competence fields including vocational teacher education, and engages in intensive collaboration with the world of work.

EduCluster Finland is proud to be associated with The Academic Advisory Council which comprises a group of high-level academics who have made an outstanding contribution to understanding, developing, and furthering excellence in education.

Our partners appreciate that:

We support them in building high-impact, sustainable ecosystems

We develop competences for today and tomorrow

We enable key features of the Finnish education concept to thrive in other contexts

Our know-how is evidenced by cutting-edge scientific research

We open access to internationally acclaimed teaching and learning practices

Explore the globally recognised Finnish education concept