Project

TESSU 2 – Aitoon monialaiseen yhteistyöhön ja ohjausosaamiseen ohjaamoissa

Project sponsors

Abbreviation
TESSU 2
Project type
Development project
Focus area
Innovative Learning
Implementation time
1.4.2019 - 31.3.2022
Project unit
School of Professional Teacher Education
Financing program
European Social Fund (ESF)
Project description

The multidisciplinary One-Stop Guidance Centers (Ohjaamo) for young people are the most important activity started in Finland in the framework of the Social Guarantee for Young People.

Across Finland there are about 70 One-Stop Guidance Centers where professionals of the public, private and third sectors provide guidance and services with a low threshold to up to 30-year olds, regarding employment, studying, everyday life skills and health issues.

TESSU2 – Towards genuine multidisciplinary co-operation and guidance competences in One-Stop guidance Centres -project helped the One-Stop Guidance Centers to develop their activities, so that multidisciplinary co-operation creates an integrated operating method and culture, both at the One-Stop Guidance Centers and in their networks. This will further improve the availability of services at the One-Stop Guidance Centers as well as their ability to provide services.

Activities and methods

TESSU2 offered customized training, development and consultation services based on needs' assessments with a holistic approach. The activities and methods emphasize collegial learning and dialogue as well as tacit and explicit knowledge creation and sharing. By a dialogical approach based on an equal engagement, the professionals can learn from each other and collectively observe and evaluate taken actions and operations. An action-based approach is often utilized in training activities, involving interactive techniques in order to understand various experiences of the organization. The Centers' head coordinators are given support by being provided both training and collegial mentoring focusing on issues of leadership. 

Project results

Outcomes and insights

The multifaceted efforts provided by TESSU2 have generated diverse products, methods and practices that will be published in an open online publication. Developing guidance services that the Centers offer in interdisciplinary, responsive, and innovative manners,?recognizing the actual needs of the customers, has been a fundamental outcome. 

The training and development have strengthened interdisciplinary collaboration competencies and interdisciplinary intellectual capital among the Centers' personnel. Peer learning and collegial support, within and across Centers, networks, and regions, as well as supporting the Centers' head coordinators, have been essential to fully reach the potential of?transdisciplinarity in genuinely customer-driven services.

More information:
www.jamk.fi/tessu