Focus areas

Who are we?

The FVU is a partnership of all 21 Finnish universities. Together, the universities provide services that help students to find more flexible ways to study, and university staff to make the best use of new educational technologies. New technologies are also used to promote nation-wide networking among subject fields and other points of common interest.

Our Mission

• to promote online learning and teaching
• to provide online information resources
• to develop compatible information systems
• to develop the basic infrastructure of full-scale electronic access services

FVU experience

•  Promoting student mobility: negotiating a nation wide agreement on flexible study rights, providing online information services
•  Quality assurance in online education: developing tools and systems
•  Online learning materials and learning objects: developing functional exchange systems
•  Teacher training in ICT: courses for university staff and local experts at universities
•  Web-tools for planning and evaluating online education

Seeking for partners?

The ideas and experience generated by the FVU will be instrumental in the development of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The two prerequisites of the EHEA, the two-tier degree structure and the ECTS-based system, were adopted by the FVU member universities as of August 1st, 2005. To gain experience and to meet the other prerequisites of the EHEA, the FVU is involved in several EU eLearning projects, and is open for new partnerships in European projects.