The year 2024 was a busy and inspiring one for us, full of training courses, coaching sessions and international cooperation, which have helped both learners and professionals to acquire new skills and achieve higher goals. We have supported the development of the green sector with training in Estonia and abroad, participated in Erasmus+ projects and cooperated with European landscape associations. At the same time, we have also improved our own knowledge at international training courses and conferences, bringing back fresh ideas and methods to offer even higher quality and more meaningful solutions.
Training and coaching
76-hour international masterclass on The Present and Future of Urban Landscaping for 16 participants in Riga (four two-day modules from January to March, see video introduction HERE)
A two-day training course on Quality Management and Supervision for 12 representatives of landscaping companies and local authorities in Tallinn in February.
80-hour course on Meaningful Learning at Rakvere Vocational School – 11 participants. We have been training at Rakvere Vocational School for the seventh year now!
56-hour training course on the challenges of sustainable development in change management at Viljandi Vocational Education and Training Centre – 16 participants from both schools and the world of work.
28-hour course on technical drawing on computer (AutoCAD) at Viljandi Vocational Education and Training Centre – 10 participants from the world of work.
One-day training courses for trainers on coping with difficult situations in training, preventing trainer burnout, in cooperation with the training company Reiting PR.
46 hours of both team and individual coaching to prepare 14 competitors for the WorldSkills 2024 global skills competition in Lyon. Client – Education and Youth Board
32-hour international training course on Out-come based VET and Assessment for the Romanian WorldSkills team of experts in Tartu.
3 ECTS Master’s course on the specificity of the adult learner at the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics of the University of Tartu.
In addition to training and coaching
The construction of a rainwater drainage solution marked the end of the Erasmus+ international project “New Skills for Landscapers for the Creation of Urban Green Areas” (LANECO) in Valga in 2023-2024, where our project partners were the Estonian, Finnish and Latvian landscapers’ associations.
In May, we organised an internship for four Belgian landscaping students in companies in Southern Estonia.
- We cooperated with the European Landscape Contractors Association ELCA.
- We participated in the EU projects EPLUG and ARtemis. In both projects, we work in close cooperation with green sector professionals from many European countries, from both the education and business sectors.
- We coordinate the ELCA Exchange programme for landscapers, through which interested people can learn or improve their knowledge and skills in landscaping companies in Europe and around the world.
We drew inspiration and knowledge from the meetings of the Yebisu e.e. association, which brings together entrepreneurs and educational institutions from eight countries, held in the Netherlands in January and in Germany in September.
Continued to contribute to the WorldSkills movement as a representative of the WorldSkills Experts Faculty (WSEF). As part of the WSEF, we are able to support with our knowledge and experience projects that promote the development of skills/mastery worldwide.
We became members of the Association of Adult Educators ANDRAS and the Estonian Association of Landscape Architects.
We also learned
In Tenerife, in the Erasmus+ adult education mobility project “Language learning without a language of mediation: getting to know modern methodology and best practices 2”, which gave us the opportunity to follow the work of the local language teachers and the language school as a job shadow for a week.
Coaching with systemic constellation under the guidance of Kim Leischner, which opened up new ways to support clients’ deeper insights and development.
In Thailand, where the World Game 2024, the global conference of Erickson Coaching International, took place. The greatest value of the conference is the RISE association born there, which brings together coaches from almost every continent and whose aim is to support and empower its members at its regular online meetings. In addition to the conference, we improved our skills as coaches and trainers at the Train the Trainer and How Life Works is Awe-So-Me trainings.
