Startup Refugees

Startup Refugees Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Entrepreneurship

The Challenges

The cooperation between Claned and Startup Refugees started approximately a year ago, in 2019. After Corona epidemy hit the whole of Finland, like the rest of the world, the cooperation was intensified – as many other organizations, Startup Refugees needed to move all training online very quickly.

All the courses planned for summer 2020 could not be organized in classrooms as planned – everything had to go online – and with a tight schedule.

The Process With Claned

The hard work has paid off – only in one month, Startup refugees were able to launch the first online course regarding entrepreneurship for immigrants. However, Startup Refugees received ideas and examples on how to build learning content and assignments from TAT (Economy and Youth) – a Finnish organization specialized in supporting young people’s employment in Finland.

Without them, Startup Refugees would not have succeeded in launching the online course so quickly.

Startup Refugees’ course launch has been an ideal project to TAT, since TAT’s aim is to “build bridges between school and working life by providing engaging learning solutions with actual knowhow about entrepreneurship, work and economics”, as Lauri Vaara, Pedagogical Expert at TAT, points out.

“We hope that through our services the youngsters find their strengths, passions and a meaningful place in the society,” Vaara Said

The Outcome

Claned learning platform has saved us a lot of effort and time in organizing our online course. Without Claned we would have had to ask the course participants to return all assignments via e-mail. Contents in forms of videos, templates etc. would have filled our e-mail inboxes. Now we were able to collect all assignments in Claned.

On top of that, material sharing on the board has been so easy. This kind of easy manageability has saved us a lot of time.

Additionally, we would not have been able to collect as much feedback so easily and automatically from all our course materials – with the help of Claned’s platforms analytics, we were able to follow constantly and easily the course material ratings given by our course participants.

“It has been a great collaboration with Claned and TAT. Claned learning platform has saved us a lot of effort and time in organizing our online course. Without Claned we would have had to ask the course participants to return all assignments via e-mail" Kati Lappeteläinen, Head of Business Program at Startup Refugees

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