Objective 1: To raise the quality of work for education providers (teachers and other LEKO non teaching staff members) in improiving the adult non-native student's and client's possibilities to learn. Objective 2: To raise the understanding of EU and Finnish values and the understanding of how non-native adults learn in other EU countries for our students and clients. Objective 3: To improve interpersonal communication in LEKO community.
LEKO is a private, rural educational establishment with an 85-year-long history, involved in the fields of formal, non-formal education, social work, spiritual work, children’s welfare, hospitality services and projects locally, regionally, and internationally The largest group of our full-time students are non-finish national adults learning the Finnish language within the context of upper basic education programs, as well we have integration program for Ukrainian refugees. We provide different courses. There are more than 25 nationalities in this year in our school. LEKO serves for about 150 full-time students, with help of 65 staff members. We regularly host volunteers. We help the students to become an equal member of society and the owners of own life in the new environment while achieving their educational goals and to improve interpersonal communication between people of different national and cultural background, lack of understanding how society functions in Finland and the EU.