Through this project, we intended to develop the future skills of our staff: entrepreneur like attitude towards working, self – direction, communication skills, empathy, cooperation and networking skills, the ability to work in different kinds of environments and cultures, critical thinking and creativity. Through these abilities, the resilience towards changes was expected to increace making our organization more flexible and vibrant. We hoped to learn more about our special fields of education, on new working and teaching methods and digitalization. We hoped to be able to design and organize our courses and education better according to the demands and needs of our clients and the society. We also wanted to learn to master new tools in education as well as in marketing and communication. We hoped to further develop our networking and cooperation skills with our stakeholders. It was also important for our organization to improve leadership, teamwork and interdisciplinary cooperation as well as project management skills.
Wellamo Community College is the largest regional community college in Finland. The College is governed by the city of Lahti. A total of 15 500 people studied at the College in the year 2018. Wellamo Community College implements in its European development plan (EDP) the objectives of the City of Lahti strategy and puts into action the measures drawn from this strategy. Wellamo Community college applied for an international mobility project for adult education staff in the region of Päijät- Häme. This WellMob 3 – project was intended to provide the College staff an opportunity for international contacts and experiences. This project was supposed to meet the needs of the College to improve the expertise and knowledge of our staff to adjust to the continuously evolving work environment in the future.