After a two-year break due to COVID-19, UEF Summer School will be back in August 2022 with six courses at Joensuu campus.
The daily programme for the UEF Summer School 2022 will be updated here during the spring semester 2022. Stay tuned for more information!
Courses 2022
Digital Fabrication and Making in Education - Tools and Pedagogical Perspectives, 5 ECTS
- Course coordinator: Calkin Suero Montero, calkin.montero@uef.fi
- Organising unit: School of Educational Sciences and Psychology
- Course dates: 8-19 August 2022
- Please note: details to be updated soon
- Brief description of the course: In this course, I will draw from the experiences of introducing digital fabrication and making to formal and informal education contexts using a solid craft- and project-based pedagogical approach deployed within five interconnected stages: ideation, planning, creating, programming and sharing. The course covers the use of making technologies in education, detailing this design thinking and inquiry-based pedagogical methodology as well as technological platforms that support the deployment of digital fabrication and making tools within learning ecosystems. The course is carried out as a 2 weeks hands-on course, including group work to develop a physical computer-supported artefact.
- More information: Link to the course in the application system
Education in Diverse Cultures, 5 ECTS
- Course coordinator: Ritva Kantelinen, ritva.kantelinen@uef.fi
- Organising unit: School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education
- Course dates: 8-19 August 2022
- Please note: For Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral level students of educational sciences. The maximum number of participants is 16. A Letter of Motivation must be included in the application.
- Brief description of the course: Diversity education. Multicultural education. Intercultural sensitivity. Learning culture and teaching culture. Teacher collaboration. Cultural traditions and diversity encounters in education. Communication styles in various cultures. Values underlying teacher-student relationships in various cultures.
- More information: Link to the course in the application system
NB! More information about the above courses will be posted here soon.
Glasses for optical fibres and other applications, 2 ECTS
- Course coordinator: Ezekiel Kuhoga, ezekiel.kuhoga@uef.fi
- Organising unit: Department of Physics and Mathematics
- Course dates: 9-12 August and 15-16 August 2022 (6 working days)
- Please note: Event website is located here: https://sites.uef.fi/photonics/joensuu-summer-school-on-optics/ . The course involves lectures, short tasks and visits to two industrial companies.
- Brief description of the course: An example of industrial work career for physicist: what are the interesting parts of it, what are the heaviest types of tasks, and how to get through and learn to solve problems and to improve products and production methods; introduction to solid-state materials and their properties; material compositions and manufacturing methods of glasses for various types of products (windows, high strength materials, vessels, glass cover of ceramic materials, glass cover of electronic components, optical fibers); how the recycled glasses are used and their benefits; coloured glasses; glass in optical fibres; coating materials of optical fibers, manufacturing method for optical fibres; communications optical fibres and fiber components and their optical and mechanical properties; history and problems solved in the communications fibres 1976-2020; characterisation and measurement methods for fibers and fiber components; splicing methods and manufacturing of fiber components; specialty optical fibers, fiber lasers and amplifiers; examples of photonics glasses and materials; two visits to industrial companies: a fibre and glass product factory and a photonics material factory; discussions with and short task reports to the students.
- More information: Link to the course in the application system
Learning Analytics, 5 ECTS
- Course coordinator: Ilkka Jormanainen, ilkka.jormanainen@uef.fi
- Organising unit: School of Computing
- Course dates: to be updated soon
- Please note: details to be updated soon
- Brief description of the course: Learning analytics (LA) refers to the “measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs”. The field built on the developments and success of other domains and disciplines and the rapid growth of data and analytics methods. LA has achieved significant advances in multiple areas: student recommender systems, learning dashboards, adaptive feedback, early warning systems and personalized support for students. This Learning Analytics (LA) Course will provide a framework for the understanding of the field of LA and how data has been used in education. The course will address the taxonomy of learning analytics and related terms such as educational data mining and academic analytics. The course will also discuss the theoretical background behind learning analytics and the concepts of the big data paradigm shift. The learning analytics main steps and procedures will be discussed in detail, including data gathering, analysis and generation of insights. The main ethical and privacy issues will also be covered.
The practical aspect of the course will enable the students to practice the basics of visualization and analysis of educational data. More importantly, the participants will practice data analysis using popular techniques e.g., social network analysis, sequence mining, process mining, predictive analytics, and visualization.
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More information: Link to the course in the application system
NB! More information about the above courses will be posted here soon.
Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution (ECCR), 5 ECTS
- Course coordinator: Denis Dobrynin, denis.dobrynin@uef.fi
- Organising unit: Department of Geographical and Historical Studies
- Course dates: 8-12 August 2022
- Please note: The application deadline for this course is 1 May 2022. We ask all candidates to submit a CV and a motivation letter (minimum 300, maximum 600 words). The course consists of two parts: the first part is related to pre-course assignments (in June); the second part is in August. Completing the assignments in both parts of the course results in 5 ECTS. Students from Finnish universities and from universities in EDUCAse network do not pay participation fees.
- Brief description of the course: The course will address environmental and natural resource conflicts that are familiar and topical for the course participants. These cases provide a real-world context for the course contents and development of practical skills. The themes may include natural resource conflicts for example in the fields of forestry, nature conservation, mining and land use conflicts more generally. Students are expected to work with concrete dispute cases along with the course program. The course is constructed around a framework of environmental collaboration and conflict resolution. It starts with the introduction of collaborative management and participatory methods and continues with the theory and practice of collaboration, mediation and consensus-building. It includes elements of interest-based negotiation theory at its core and builds on the collaborative model of consensus building. After the course students will have skills to 1) analyse conflict situations; 2) understand types of intervention and their preconditions, and; 3) match environmental conflict situations with appropriate response strategies; 4) understand the principles of meditated negotiation as a conflict resolution strategy; 5) participate effectively in collaborative multi-party processes.
- More information: Link to the course in the application system
Food Law and Policy, 5 ECTS
- Course coordinator: Hang Nguyen, hang.nguyen@uef.fi
- Organising unit: Law School
- Course dates: 8-19 August 2022
- Please note: The application deadline is 30 June 2022.
- Brief description of the course: The course works from the idea of aligning food policies in an effort to improve food security worldwide. Finnish and international experts in fields of food security, food safety and nutrition, animal law, international trade, IPRs cover the foundations of food law as a legal discipline through the lens of contemporary scholarship on food law and policy issues. The course includes industry representatives and visits.
- More information: Link to the course in the application system
NB! More information about the above courses will be posted here soon.
- No courses in August 2022.
Daily programmes
The course organisers decide the daily programme for each course. Typically, the lectures/course work will take place between 9-10 to 16-17. There will be a lunch break of one hour, and also other shorter breaks in-between. The social programme will take place during the evenings and the weekend.
The detailed daily programmes of the courses are determined by the course coordinators/departments. If you have any questions about the contents and daily programme of the course, please contact the course coordinator. The course coordinator of each course is mentioned on the course page.
Glasses for optical fibres and other applications, The Year of Glass 2022: Detailed program
1. Day (5 lectures), 9.8.2022, at 9-11 and 12-15 o’clock, Lecturer: Tarja Volotinen
- Lecture 1: General information, the course contents and Introduction
- Lecture 2: History of glass materials from 12 000 B. C. up to our time
- Lecture 3: What are the most important physical, chemical, optical and mechanical properties of glasses?
- Lecture 4: Material compositions and properties of glasses
- Lecture 5: Tasks to work out in small groups and discussions about the glasses
2. Day (5 lectures), 10.8.2022, at 9-11 and 12-15 o’clock, Lecturer: Tarja Volotinen
- Lecture 6: Development of optical fibres, 1976 - 2022
- Lecture 7: Development of optical properties of fibres, 1980 - 1995
- Lecture 8: Development of reliable optical fibres 1995 - 2022
- Lecture 9: What are the most important physical, chemical, optical and mechanical properties of optical fibre glasses?
- Lecture 10: What are the most important measurements and tests to be done on the fibres
3. Day (5 lectures), 11.8.2022, at 9-11 and 12-15 o’clock, Lecturer: Tarja Volotinen
- Lecture 11: Today’s optical communications fibres, various fibre types
- Lecture 12: Measurement methods for optical fibres
- Lecture 13: Fibre splicing methods, and fibre components
- Lecture 14: International standards and requirements
- Lecture 15: Discussions and tasks to do together: Find out what kinds of fibre network types exists, and which kind of fibres are used for them? How to find the fibre properties and standards from the Internet?
4. Day (4 h + travel), 12.8.2022, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Lecturer: an expert at Oplatek
- 2h bus travel + 3h (visit) + 1h (lunch) + 2h (bus travel back): A visit to Oplatek optical fibre and glass factory at Leppävirta
5. Day (5 lectures), 15.8.2022, at 9-11 and 12-15 o’clock, Lecturer: Prof. Laeticia Petit, Tampere University
- Lecture 16: Different glass systems for the different photonic glasses
- Lecture 17: Photosensitive gasses
- Lectures 18 and 19: Lasing glasses
- Lecture 20: Questions to answer for discussion
6. Day (2 lectures + 2 visits+ 1 lecture), 16.8.2022, at 9-11 and 12-15 o’clock, Lecturer: Tarja Volotinen
- Lectures 21 and 22: Summary of the glass material properties and manufacturing methods
- A visit to a company in Joensuu, and to Optics Labs at Metria in Joensuu
- Lecture 23: Questions and reports:
Questions to the students and from the students:
- What kinds of tasks would a physicist do in a glass or optical fibre factory? Or in a research unit?
- What are the effects of glasses into the climate and nature worldwide?
Reports from the students to the teacher.
Learning Analytics: Detailed program
Monday, August 8
- 10-12 Introduction to learning analytics, taxonomy and how it works
- Lunch
- 13-15 Privacy and Ethics in learning analytics
- 15-16 Free discussion on personal projects, guidance and conversation
Tuesday, August 9
- 9-12 Learning theory and analytics
- Lunch
- 13-15 Introduction to data, data types and main types of methods
- 15-16 (optional guidance with own data or papers)
Wednesday, August 10
- 9-12 Process mining
- Lunch
- 13-15 Process mining practice
Thursday, August 11
- 9-12 Sequence mining
- Lunch
- 13-16 Papers reading and reflection on process and sequence mining and interpretation
- 16-17 (Optional guidance with own data or papers)
Friday, August 12
- 9-12 Social Network Analysis
- Lunch
- 13-16 Practice and paper reading
Monday, August 15
- 9-12 Predictive learning analytics
- Lunch
- 13-16 Practice with data
- 16-17 (Optional guidance with own data or papers)
Tuesday, August 16
- Multimodal learning analytics and practical work
Wednesday, August 17
- Discussion of learning analytics projects, papers and examples
- Demonstration of assignments
Thursday, August 18
- Practical work
Friday, August 19
Final project, discussion and of personal projects wrap up
Education in Diverse Cultures: Detailed program
Monday, August 8
- 9-12 Orientation and campus tour
- Lunch
- 13-15 Equal educational opportunities for everyone
Tuesday, August 9
- 9-12 Language Education
- Lunch
- Action-oriented language proficiency
Wednesday, August 10
- 9-12 Creativity and integration through music
- Lunch
- 13-15 Creativity and integration through music
Thursday, August 11
- 9-15 Student presentations
Friday, August 12
- 9-12 Interculturality beyond culture? Basic concepts and applications in educational settings
- Lunch
- 13-15 Interculturality beyond culture? Basic concepts and applications in educational settings
Monday, August 15
- 10-12 Visitors, introduction speeches and discussion
- Lunch
- 13-15 Visitor lecture
Tuesday, August 16
- 10-12 Lecture
- Lunch
- Group work
Wednesday, August 17
- 9-15 Workshops
Thursday, August 18
- 9.30-12 Participating in Joensuu Parafest 2022 event
- Lunch
- 13-15 Student presentations
Friday, August 19
- 9-13 Student presentations
Digital Fabrication and Making in Education - Tools and Pedagogical Perspectives: Detailed program
Monday, August 8
- 10-12 Lecture
Wednesday, August 10
- 10-12 Lecture
- 12-18 Group practice
Friday, August 12
- 10-12 Lecture
- 12-18 Group practice
Monday, August 15
- 10-12 Practical support
Wednesday, August 17
- 10-12 Practical support
Friday, August 19
- 10-12 Final project presentation
Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution (ECCR): Detailed program
Monday, August 8
- 8.30-9 Registration
- 9-9.30 Opening speech
- 9.30-10.30 Networking
- 10.30-11 Lecture
- 11-11.30 Lecture
- 11.20-12 Lecture
- Lunch
- 13-14.30 Lecture
- 14.30-16 Group work
- 16.30-17 Orientation
Tuesday, August 9
- 9-10 Lecture
- 10-12 Lecture
- Lunch
- 14-16 Lecture
- 16-16.30 Tasks for the field excursion
- 16.30-17 Walking/cycling trip to Vainoniemi
- 17-22 Dinner and option for sauna
Wednesday, August 10
- 8.30 Bus trip to Pamilo hydroelectric power plant
- 9-10.30 Introduction of the collaborative platform
- 10.30-11.30 Bus trip to Kivilahti village
- 11.30-12.30 Introduction to the Kivilahti village and lunch at the village hall
- 12.30-13 Lecture
- 13-15 Panel discussion
- 15-16.20 Bus trip to Joensuu
Thursday, August 11
- 9-11 Lecture
- 11-12 Lecture
- Lunch
- 13-15 Lecture
- 15-16 Lecture
Friday, August 12
- 9-9.30 Reflections on the previous day
- 9.30-10 Lecture
- 10-12 Lecture
- Lunch
- 13-15.15 Lecture
- 15.15-16 Feedback and take-home messages
- 16-19 Networking and alumni meeting
Food Law and Policy: Detailed program (coming soon)
Social programme
Your stay here at the UEF will not be studying only - although that can be fun, too.
You can enjoy the eastern Finnish nature on your leisure time. Why not try out, for example, canoeing on the river or lake, play beach volley, go Nordic walking in the forest, take a sauna and go swimming in our beautiful lakes? Or you can just relax with your fellow students on the numerous terraces and cafeterias around our campus cities.
We hope you enjoy your stay in Finland. That’s why we will also organise some guided social programme during the weeks and the weekend.
The activities will mostly be included in your participation fee, but some of them may have a small extra fee.

- Buffet dinner offered by UEF on 8 August
- Walking city tour on 9 August
- Hangout evening on 10 August
- Daytrip to a farm and a short visit to Koli national park on 13 August (fee 25 euros)
- Baking Finnish delicacies on 15 August
- Sauna evening on 17 August
- Farewell dinner offered by UEF on 19 August