"Consciously we teach what we know, unconsciously we teach who we are." Hamachek, 1999

segunda-feira, 19 de outubro de 2015

Development Work VI - Brazil, Canada and Finland closer than never

Title: The role of public research institutes in accelerating business innovation process
Institution: Entrepreneurship Fair (Sebrae)
City: Cuiabá - MT
Distance from Confresa-MT: 1166 Km
Audience: Entrepreneurs, Business Students, Teachers, Professors
Audience number: 30 people.
Duration: 1 hour
Method: Expositive


This presentation was done with two co-workers in the Federal Institute of Mato Grosso, Valquíria Martinho and Sandra Mariotto. Valquiria is the head of innovation department of the institution and Sandra was one of the 43 teachers that went to Canada in the first attempt of Brazil of having a VET program.

We talked a little about entrepreneurship and the distance between universities and companies in Brazil and how Canada and Finland make it works.
I talked a little about DEMOLA, Proakatemia, Project-based Learning, Problem-based Learning, Learning by Doing, Just-in-time Learning and how is the budget of the Universities of Applied Sciences.

The method used was expositive because there were no time to make something different, but we talked a lot with the audience.
They really liked the way Finland do the link between university and companies and we could make some contacts to improve our relationship with the entrepreneurs.