LLinE Lifelong Learning in Europe

Environmental factors affect learning – InnoSchool project

Recent research, reported in the UNESCO International Review of Education (March 2007) stated that environmental factors should better be taken into account in organising learning. The big project InnoSchool – Innovative School Concept for the Future (2007–2009) – researches and develops the Future School Concept: a set of research-based good practices, processes, models and designs, and recommendations for their successful combinations in the Future School.

InnoSchool consortium consists of four co-projects:
• InnoArch – Places and Spaces for Learning
• InnoEdu – Education with Innovation
• InnoPlay – Innovative Playful Learning Environments
• InnoServe – Service Innovations for the Future School

These co-projects research the schools from their different scientific perspectives: architecture and urban planning; playful learning environments; education and the teaching–studying–learning process; and process and innovation management. The synergy between the four co-projects is achieved through theoretical dialogue applying a joint Concept Design framework, and through collaborative empirical case studies on selected pilot schools.

InnoSchool is funded by the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation Tekes, participating municipalities, and partner companies. InnoSchool consortium includes the Universities of Helsinki and Lapland, and Helsinki University of Technology. InnoSchool collaborates with Stanford University / SCIL and University of California, Santa Barbara.

http://innoschool.tkk.fi/