Second Project Meeting – November 2025, Helsinki

Mlyst hosted the first Learning, Teaching, Training Activity of our project in November 2025 in Helsinki. Teachers and school principals from Turkey, Estonia, and Portugal attended a meeting.

The Ecoleaders project, co-funded by the European Union, strengthens teachers’ leadership by helping them integrate sustainability and digital transformation into their work. It builds their green digital, ecological, critical, and ecolinguistic skills so they are more fully equipped to address environmental challenges and promote environmental awareness in their schools and communities.

During the four-day training in 2025, Mlyst’s CEO Miika Pihkala trained teachers on how to promote sustainable and digital skills in teaching and in schools. The course included digital edtech tools, a digital sustainability curriculum, the design of green and digital lessons, games that teach sustainability, and sustainability action plans. We also learned about Finnish recycling practices and waste-reduction strategies at Kierrätyskeskus recycling centre in Helsinki.

The Helsinki LTTA followed the Ecoleaders project’s first kick-off meeting, which took place in Tartu, Estonia, in June 2025. There we met with the project group for the first time in Estonia and collaboratively planned the project’s next steps and upcoming meetings. Principal Toomas Liivamägi introduced us to the activities and architecture of Luunja Keskkool. During our visit to Tartu we also had time to get to know the Natural History Museum of the University of Tartu and the Estonian National Museum.