Tiimiakatemia

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!)

We have finally rounded up Tiimiakatemia Jyväskylä’s year 2011 and it’s time to publish the results.

Tiimiakatemia Jyväskylä broke 2 000 000 e turnover

Tiimiakatemia Jyväskylä’s team companies made 2 015 770 euro revenue in year 2011! In addition we had over 750 visitors from Finland and abroad. We also had good coverage in different medias, the combined amount of different releases was over 100. The brightest star was the story in the national news in television channel MTV3 (http://www.katsomo.fi/?progId=78248). In the local newspaper Keski-Suomalainen alone we had twenty stories. Keep it up!

Hello everybody in Tiimiakatemia Family!

This is Juho Deb, from Goala Cooperative, from Tiimiakatemia, Jyväskylä.
One and a half month ago I received a joyful challenge from Team Academy Euskadi. I was asked to come to Bilbao to help them to market their Team Academy programs for creating team entrepreneurs and Team Academy spirit in to the Basque Country. I have been now working here for a quite a while already and I want to share a few photos and words with you.

Team Academy Jyväskylä participated to the competition of Fonecta. The idea is to collect as much recommendations for your company or organization as possible. Most recommended company will get an add placement to Heikki Kovalainen’s driving overalls, for the season of 2011-2012. Heikki Kovalainen is famous finnish Formula 1 driver. So this is incredibly cool thing!

One of the participants said in the check-in „currently, I feel more like innovate than die“ and in fact this time – luckily – everyone survived, while the German-Finnish crew will soon be back, challenging people in Germany even more to take profound decisions.

“It’s important to break free from constraints and do what you love”

On the afternoon of 10^th March, 31 brave people from Hamburg, Lübeck, Lüneburg and Berlin came to the „Innovate or Die“ event in Hamburg. The hosts were Theresia Warwitz and Florian Dennig from Germany, as well as Iiro Kolehmainen, Heidi Vainio-Pekka, and Sami Lehmus from Finland. The participants stem from very diverse back grounds, the majority were entrepreneurs, while there were also managers of companies, University representatives, lawyers and people from local start-up initiatives. Our main goal was to create a lasting experience for the participants, so as to win them as ambassadors and customers in local organisations, and create the ground for more joint activities.

“Everything can be questioned what I had thought I knew”

Sometimes it feels like that someone should invent a “Communication with international network -manual”. The network of Team Academy is spreading all the time and communication isn’t the easiest part of business. But I have heard that you should never see problems just joyful challenges. Here is something we can try to do to face this joyful challenge together. Welcome to the English webpage of Team Academy!

Here is the “manual” how we can make it work together:

One important thing we want to improve with this webpage is knowledge between Team Academies. We think that it’s essential to find every Team Academy in a same webpage. Here you can find link to the different Team Academies and some basic information of them (at least some of them, those who don’t already have more info here you can contact me.)

New students, new coaches, new furniture, new decorated windows, new images, new feelings, and of course always new guests, never treated as customers visiting Team Academy Finland.

I was wondering myself: What is Team Academy’s flavour? What is Team Academy’s smell? What is the secret of Team Academy’s spirit? Every time I visit Team Academy Finland, it seems to me that every thing has changed, students, coaches, furniture, this time even the headcoach was going to be changed. Every day is a different and an unique one in this organization where everyone has clear in his/her mind that he/she is playing a leading role in their particular revolution of building a life-learning organization.