Yrityskylä
JA’s Yrityskylä is a Finnish learning module that has received an award as the best education innovation in the world. We provide 6th and 9th graders with positive experiences about working life, the economy, entrepreneurship and society.
Get to know Yrityskylä
JA’s Yrityskylä is a Finnish learning module that has received an award as the best education innovation in the world. We provide 6th and 9th graders with positive experiences about working life, the economy, entrepreneurship and society. The module consists of training for teachers, Yrityskylä’s lessons and an experiential day in our learning environment. Best of all, Yrityskylä is based on the core curriculum and is proven to be effective. About 85-90 % of all 6th and 9th graders in Finland participate in JA’s Yrityskylä.
All 6th and 9th graders whose municipality has signed an agreement with Yrityskylä participate there.
Yrityskylä Primary School
The Yrityskylä Primary School learning environment is a society for schoolchildren, a miniature city where pupils work in their own professions, receiving a salary for their work. In addition, pupils act as responsible consumers and citizens as part of Finnish society.
Yrityskylä Secondary School
In the Yrityskylä Secondary School game venue, pupils compete in running a real company in the international market. Competing against each other in management teams, each pupil has their own area of responsibility. During the game, the teams manufacture and sell their product to customers and run the company for one year.
Watch the Videos to Discover Life at Yrityskylä
Watch the videos to see the activities during school lessons and in the Yrityskylä Primary School and Yrityskylä Secondary School learning environments.
Yrityskylä activities all over Finland
Information in Finnish
Yrityskylä has received several awards
In 2014, Yrityskylä was awarded in the prestigious World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) competition. WISE praised Yrityskylä for its unique work for the benefit of Finnish society. In particular, our education concept was commended for its innovative approach to teaching societal topics already at primary school level.
In 2024, Yrityskylä was recognised as Finland’s leading promoter of financial literacy. The award was granted by the Legal Aid Agency and the National Strategy for Financial Literacy.
In 2013, the European Commission awarded Yrityskylä for promoting entrepreneurial thinking, and in 2014 the international education organisation International Partnership Network (IPN) selected Yrityskylä in Brussels as the world’s best innovative partnership project.
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