Tiimiakatemia

We are happy to inform all you about our event: Team Academy Debrecen 2nd Birthday Party, which will be organised on the 10th November 2012, in Debrecen, Hungary. We would like to cordially invite you to take part in this event and let’s celebrate together.

If you want to take part in this event, please registrate on this website:

http://www.teamacademy.hu/index.php/hu/team-academy-birthday-party

Take part also in Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/events/286938394741164/?notif_t=plan_user_joined

Ökrös Lilla Csilla

New Side Team Kft.

Tel: 0670/595-4452

E-mail: lilla.csilla.okros.nst@gmail.com

Fall 2012 has fully started in Tiimiakatemia, and all the teams seem to be up to full speed ever since the first day. Phones are ringing, teampreneurs are running from on meeting to another and the tapping of the keyboards creates a positive background music in the middle of all action.

Monday 27th of August the new members of TA-house were welcomed with a colourful Kick Off-day. The day started with a glass of champagne and the photographing of the new penguins. Then the show started with an eventful and supriseful speach from the founder Johannes Partanen.

After the Kick Off penguins have been touring the house, getting the feel of the place. But with the customer meetings they haven’t been given any off-time, but pushed straight to action. Already on the second day were the phones out of the pockets and ringing to reach customers. As a result: 59 customer visits. So it is with the greatest confidence that we can hand over Tiimiakatemia to the newest generation and look forward to what the fall brings with it.

Here’s a closer peek to what our penguins have been up to during their first weeks..

WEEK1
Monday - the first day
Receiving the penguins, Kick-off. In the afternoon Belbin team role tests and introducing themselves.

Tuesday – the importance of customers
First customer visits in the morning, motorolas of the visits in the afternoon.

Wednesday – practicalities
How to write essays, what papers do I need to fill, where to choose books etc. Figuring out some of the TA vocabulary.

Thursday
The first training session in the morning, exploring Jyväskylä in the afternoon.

Friday – wrapping up first expressions
Motorola – why did you want to come to Tiimiakatemia? What have you learned, what did you know beforehand?
Welcoming celebration organized by the coloracademies in the afternoon.
WEEK 2

Monday
Splitting people into the teams. And first training session with your own team. Kastajaiset -

Tuesday – offices
Decorating offices, Houston calling and representation of each penguine team’s office.

Wednesday and Thursday – Forest and back

Friday – training session and starting the co-operative

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We, the three young women, have accepted a brave challenge during our first year at Tiimiakatemia by organizing a winetrip to Switzerland. The trip that we are organizing with our Swiss cooperative partner, responsible travel organizer Fins Tours SA, comes true on September 12th to 16th. But from where this all started? Well, from a small idea in our project leader?s head and by sharing it with other team entrepreneurs in Tiimiakatemia it has rapidly grown into a real project.

Actually, Hanne has been interested in wines for several years and in November she got an idea that she wanted to do a project concerning it. She thought that maybe she could go visit a winery in Finland. She then shared this idea with her teammate Jenni and the two girls from the Innomo coop got even more excited. As usual, the idea didn’t go into practice at first but when they met other team entrepreneurs at a friend leadership course. After that the project group had found its path and took its shape with a new member, Maaru, from the Priima ideacoop.

Now the project has proceeded into a stage where we need the 30 travelers themselves. So, to learn more about us and our project and of course to sign up to this trip with us go to www.viiniensveitsi.fi !

Tiimiakatemia ring for graduated team-entrepreneurs, coaches and supporters of Team Academy Network. This ring symbolizes not only the strong commitment within the whole Tiimiakatemia Network, but the quality provided by Tiimiakatemia, and ensures professional appreciation for team entrepreneurs, as well.

The wearing of the ring, as a common symbol, can ease the making of contacts in business life, by providing graduates with a visible reminder of their membership in a select group. In addition, the ring will forever remind them of the beautiful and unforgettable years spent in the Tiimiakatemia Network. Upon hearing about the Tiimiakatemia Ring, the first things that will come to mind will be reliability, knowledge and a shared spirit.We would like to create tradition inside the system of Team Academy with these rings.

We have designed very aesthetic rings for both men and women. You can order yours in white or yellow gold and silver. There are 2 stones in the women’s ring. You can choose from different types of stones, such as: zirconia or diamond.
The rings will be numbered in order to make them more special and unique and in this way we also could strengthen the belonging to the Network of Team Academy.We collect the numbering in a database. It contains the name of the buyer, his or her e-mail address and the place where she or he graduated. With the numbering and the creation of a database, we would like to strengthen the belonging to the Network of the Team Academy.

More information and orders: http://www.tiimiakatemia-ring.com/

Greetings from Poland! I’m here representing Tiimiakatemia in Edukacja exhibition in Kielce as a part of Educluster network. There’s 14 of us all together from Finland, and I have to say I am absolutely amazed by the warmth we have been welcomed and taken care of. I have nothing but admiration for the warm-hearted people of Poland.

For the past two days we have met with different organisations and schools and told them about our innovative way of learning and gotten the contaminations started with Tiimiakatemia-virus in Poland. Hopefully in the near future I will be visiting Poland again to see Tiimiakatemia Poland in action.

Finnish, Ukranian, Hungarian and Polish people dancing traditional polish dance

Each day has been full of new experiences and wonderful people. First night we saw opera Carmen, yesterday we had a fantastic multicultural dinner with delegations from Ukraine and Hungary and for our last night our hosts are taking us to a spanish restaurant in the centrum. Hard to believe that tomorrow will be our last day here. But I’m sure I’ll be back!

In our workshop we had a question: “What is the goal of entrepreneurship education?” My answer was to create new entrepreneurs and employees with an entrepreneurial attitude, intrapreneurs. But the question stuck with me and got me thinking of education in general. What do you think is the goal of education and learning? I realized I do not have an answer ready for this question. Do you?

All the best from Poland!

Emma
The international leader of Tiimiakatemia Jyväskylä

P.S You can read Minna-monkey’s thoughts of the trip here.

Did you know that Johannes and Ulla made a little trip to Qatar last year? Here’s a small peak at the great presentation they had about Tiimiakatemia in the World Innovation summit of Education:

Vaivata-team from Basque country, Spain was our guests ere in Tiimiakatemia for one month, from the middle of January to the middle of February. Ten experienced members in the team, most of them (or all, not one hundred precent sure) already had a previous diploma. A lawyer, IT-geeks, a designer – a good mix of people. All the makings of a great team. One person stayed back in Basque country to keep the on-going projects running and the rest nine were here with us.

They did all kinds of projects in Jyväskylä area, like “Travel around the world”-party in Passion, exploring the possibility of importing apple cider from Basque country and a birthgiving to Metso. We also had a blast at the 19th anniversary party of Tiimiakatemia, and they spent some time in Proakatemia in Tampere, some of them visited Lapland or walked around in Helsinki for a day or two before taking off.

They took a good amount of videos, which you can see from their blog: www.vaivata.es. Unfortunately most of them are mainly in spanish (or basque). One is fun video where they have played with language misunderstandings. In the video “Jon en la Sauna “10 días de sol en Finlandia” Episodio 1″ Salla is telling in finnish what she thinks about Tiimiakatemia and why she came here. The guys added subtitles to her speech, pretending that she’s telling it was so depressing before the basque boys came and rescued here from the deep depths of depression. Gotta love their sense of humor.

Thanks Vaivata, keep up the same enthusiastic attitude also in Basque!

There’s an interesting buzz going on around creative entrepreneurship here in Porto. Next Tuesday there will be an event around that theme organized by the Serralves Foundation, and already 400 people have subscribed from the Creative Industries, Incubators, Universities, Vocational Schools, Business Associations, Art Students, Entrepreneurs, Financial Institutions, Governmental organizations, City Councils, etc.

Monkey Business and Tiimiakatemia are here too sharing the experience we’ve got on creating entrepreneurship by means of dialogue, learning by doing and applying theory into practice. We are also having a great mate from Aalto University, Oliver Saarinen, as a speaker on board. Aalto & us were both invited because one of the goals of the forum is to show and disseminate international best practices about entrepreneurship development, the new role of incubators in relation to recent urban dynamics as well as new tools and strategies on creative industries incubation.  Monkeys have been involved in Tiimiakatemia’s international expansion since it’s beginning in 2005, and the latest story we have to share comes from Brazil, where I’ve been one of the protagonists leading TA to land in there. Now Portugal is the place to share about it.

One goal of this forum is to contribute to the creation of a creative industries incubators network, once in the last couple of years, around 10 new incubators were funded and created in the Porto region, and there are no practices of cooperation or shared tools or strategies among them. Finnish initiatives, including Tiimiakatemia, have been present in Portugal and Porto area already earlier. When Y4 won the European Entrepreneurship Award it’s leader Petri Palviainen got in touch with the main organizer of this forum Paulo Alves, and shared about Tiimiakatemia with him. Then in 2010 Jaana Hiltunen, Ana Aguirre and Sari Veripää visited Porto to talk about Tiimiakatemia in various forums. There’s certainly something bubbling under in here and we’re ready to lett it to come in the air and transform into a visible, tangible action.

If you want to follow us on twitter on Tuesday use the hashtag #inserralves. You can also see the presentations afterwards at Serralves website. I’m currently figuring out what would be the way to put mine online since it’s rather big and with keynote & some videos that won’t play from PDF. Tips welcome, I’m learning here!

Cheers and good days,

Henna Monkey

Last week and especially on Saturday Tiimiakatemia was filled with people from near and far, with smiles, love and laughter. It was the time of the year when the whole network gathered to celebrate Tiimiakatemia and it’s 19 years of successfully prooving doupters wrong and growing and improving each year.

This year was remarkable, because we managed to have participants from every unit of TA’s, even though the french strenghts never made it to the celebration. First and second year teampreneurs from both Hungary and Holland had dragged their coaches with them to experience the finnish winter.The basques weren’t any worse, all together thirtysomething of them came from different adult education programs. Team Vaivata from Tiimiakatemia Euskadi will be as with us here in Tiimiakatemia Jyväskylä for the whole month. To see more what they have been up to, check out www.vaivata.es

Congratulations for the winners of our network awards, it’s truly amazing what kind of accomplishments and people we have in our network. You can read the introductions for the winners from www.tasynttarit.net/en/aanestys. For their accomplishments with Shopping center Sokos, the Majesty of marketing -award went to Satu Puikkonen, Business award to Teppo Ylä-Hemmilä (great speech by the way) and Mikael Lukka was announced as the Leader of the year. Network award was given to Mikael Hirvi, a face familiar to most of you, proof that the award was earned. Revolution award was this year given to Monkey Business. Yellow love, keep up the good work!

Thank you all for an amazing party. Until next year! (mark it down already, on the 19th of January 2013 Tiimiakatemia has existed for 20 years!)