JUUREVA
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Other Finnish
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University of Oulu
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Project description
JUUREVA implements at the University of Oulu the outcomes of the Erasmus+ Teacher Academies TESTEd project (2022–2025), which developed a European competence framework for teacher education. The project focuses on three major challenges shaping education and society: sustainability, democratic education and active citizenship, and AI disruption and digital wellbeing. Across these areas, JUUREVA identifies shared cross-cutting competences: critical thinking, systems thinking, ambiguity tolerance, intellectual humility, and interdisciplinarity, and connects them to concrete pedagogical practices that help teachers support students’ agency under conditions of complexity and uncertainty.
The project is strategically located at the level of university teachers, aligning with the University of Oulu’s commitment to generic skills that all graduates should develop across disciplines. Rather than treating TESTEd’s outputs as completed project artefacts, JUUREVA explores how they can be mobilised, adapted, and embedded within institutional teaching practices. In this sense, JUUREVA explores a question often left unanswered after European project funding ends: how can successful project outcomes be responsibly sustained, tested, and made useful within a host institution?
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JUUREVA’s main outcome is an inter-unit collaboration at the University of Oulu that brings together the Faculty of Education and Psychology, OPE-keskus, the LINGUA sustainability group, and the university’s Sustainability Specialist to align expertise and consolidate parallel efforts around sustainability and related generic skills.
This collaboration will produce a series of targeted workshops for university teachers in Autumn 2026, introducing the JUUREVA competence framework through practical pedagogical work. The workshops focus on concrete teaching actions (course design, classroom activities, assignments, and assessment) so that the framework becomes useful not as an abstract model, but as a tool for changing teaching practice and implementing competences and the generic skills.