In the middle of February 2026, Experience Workshop visited the local English-speaking daycare, The Fox Nest. The visit was a key milestone in our ongoing Erasmus+ KA2 project, EARLY-POLY. This project explores the use of the innovative Poly-Universe toolkit in preschool education, aiming to create a comprehensive guide for teachers working with children aged 3-10.
The Methodological Study book for the ERASMUS+ EARLYPOLY project is now published free-to-use. This comprehensive resource is now available in both English and Hungarian. Experience Workshop is proud to have contributed as a project partner, with our STEAM director, Dr Kristóf Fenyvesi, shaping the STEAM methodological foundation of this work.
The project’s international partners convened in September 2025 for a in-person working session. The meeting was hosted by our French partner, the Espace de l’Art Concret (EAC), in the beautiful setting of Mouans-Sartoux, France.
Take a look at the following video created by teachers and students from Convitto Nazionale Benevento School from Italy which came to Jyväskylä in October 2025 for a week long combined mobility of job shadowing teachers, students and teachers participating in a teacher training course.
Our STEAM Director, Dr. Kristof Fenyvesi, recently returned from Beijing, where he led a one-week intensive programme on AI in education for 100 teachers from some of the city’s leading primary and secondary schools. Rather than isolated pilot projects or experimental future classrooms, the visit revealed a coordinated and systemic transformation already taking place across one of the world’s largest school systems.
Experience Workshop continues to facilitate the connection between Hua Yuan Primary School in Beijing and Jyskä Primary School in Jyväskylä. This sister school partnership began with a successful visit in 2024 and the schools are now looking forward to the second visit in 2026.
In November, Experience Workshop welcomed back a school group from the Csontváry Primary School in Hungary. This six-day Erasmus+ mobility in Jyväskylä built upon the great success of their first visit a year earlier. The group included 20 students, two teachers there to observe Finnish classrooms, one accompanying teacher, and a second teacher who took part in a professional training course on AI and digital skills.
Experience Workshop had the pleasure of welcoming teachers for a six-day Erasmus+ training course. The AI and Digital Competences for Everyday Learning course provided a focused professional development experience centred on practical classroom technology.