FinnAgora is collaboration with a Finnish founded global company Demola on a webinar tackling the collaboration between higher education and businesses. How can these collaborations be mutually beneficial? What kind of potential do student innovations bring companies? Our experts tell us how to encourage and facilitate the potential of such collaboration with case examples from their own institutions and companies. Future Bites: Collaboration Between Higher Education and Business Sector is a pilot in a series of webinars we are producing next year, leading up to Finnovation 2.0, a business

We are happy to announce something that has been in the works for a while – our new digital gallery space you can view at finnagora.hu/virtualgallery. The gallery is based on FinnAgora’s actual office space. The first exhibition we are showcasing in the gallery is Women Rock , a photography exhibition about female artists in the male dominated industry. The exhibition consists of concert photos from seven talented Finnish music photographers: Anni Ylkänen, Virve Kulmala, Janne Puronen, Mika Kirsi, Jessica Johansson, Sanna Larmola and Sami Turunen. The photos were chosen in a competition. We

Unfortunately we have to postpone the photo exhibition Women Rock, due to new regulations in Hungary regarding the pandemic. This is very unfortunate but we hope to organize the exhibition during a safer time in Spring. But even if the physical exhibition is cancelled, for now, there will be a virtual one opening soon. We are currently working on creating a virtual gallery for the exhibition where anyone from anywhere can go and see the photos. We will inform you when this virtual gallery will be open and we wish that everyone will stay safe.

The proportion of women in the traditionally male-dominated music industry is still relatively small. Women are a clear minority in leading positions in the field, not to mention the areas of songwriting, sound engineering or entertainment law. Structural problems are not solved by themselves; therefore, an active effort is needed to increase diversity within the sector. The theme of the Women Rock photo exhibition is therefore grit. Female role models of the music business are shown through the lenses of 7 Finnish photographers: Anni Ylkänen, Virve Kulmala, Janne Puronen, Mika Kirsi, Jessica

Remember the time international press wrote (quite misleadingly) that Finland’s school system was about to get rid of teaching subjects? The true story behind the headlines was about making phenomenon-based learning part of curriculums alongside more traditional subject-based learning. The idea of phenomenon-based learning is to develop skills that are ever more relevant in society, such as critical thinking, making research and drawing multidisciplinary connections between things by having the students work with a phenomenon that interests them. This work can include research from multiple