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News25 October 2026
VentureVillage is now an official member of Education Finland
Venture Village Oy, our company in Finland, has been accepted as an official member of the Education Finland programme. We see it as proof of the growing trust in our organisation.
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News28 October 2025
We will be at Global Education Forum 2025
Spotlight Session @ Global Education Partnership Forum 2025 @ Helsinki 🎓 From Diplomacy to Delivery: How Diaspora, Curriculum, and Research Create Scalable Global PartnershipsVentureVillage Co-founders Unnikrishnan…
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News2 August 2025
We were in Kauppalehti
VentureVillage featured in Kauppalehti: showcasing the Finland–India education bridge. We are proud to share that VentureVillage has been featured…
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Blog3 February 2025
Facilitating Finland India partnership
✨ Launch of Curriculum 2030 in association with Lifology | Designing lives and HY+ University of Helsinki Centre for Continuing Education. The event had Council General of Finland, His Excellency Mr. Erik af Hällström…
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News10 September 2024
Meeting with Indian Ambassador in Finland
Last week, Unnikrishnan S Kurup and Dr.Anup Jinadevan, founders of Venture Village had the privilege of meeting with the newly appointed Indian Ambassador to Finland, His Excellency Shri. Hemant H.Kotalwar. They had…
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Blog29 August 2024
Project Ashakiran
Renault Nissan Technology & Business Centre India pioneers and envisages positive citizenship through its CSR intitatives. Climate Change and environment are serious focus points for the organization and a urgent need…
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News26 January 2021
In the Media
VentureVillage has been covered by The New Indian Express and EdEx Live, The Better India and The Hindu.
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Blog20 July 2020
Importance of Financial Education and Entrepreneurship Skills at an Early Age
With a vibrant demographic, India is poised to set the scene for rapid economic growth in the coming years. In light of these facts, financial education and entrepreneurship skills across all primary and secondary…
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Blog29 June 2020
Will India be a superpower over the next decade?
Does India aspire to be a first world superpower over the next decade? We have the largest school education system in the world. However, our education system is still only of third world standards, with less than half…
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Blog27 April 2020
Teaching and Learning During Covid 19
VentureVillage is an organisation that primarily focuses on children learning core skills covering the Economy, Sustainability, Working Life, Society and Entrepreneurship. Our learning modules, inspired from the Finnish…
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Blog20 March 2020
Teaching right skills to the next generation
“India would have an excess of 30 crore Secondary School Graduates by 2030. This will make India the country with the largest youth population” UNICEF Is the next generation of India ready for the future? In 2019, India…
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Blog5 February 2020
Muralee Thummarukudy writes about VentureVillage
Muralee Thummarukudy wrote about VentureVillage on Facebook.
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Blog19 December 2019
Impact analysis of VentureVillage Courses [Infographic]
Students who attended FutureCity and GreenCity courses by VentureVillage have shown tremendous improvement in learning outcomes.
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Team News4 December 2019
Meet Sara David
“During my brief association with the education system of India, I was able to comprehend the various lacunae within the system. However, I did not know how to approach this situation. That is when I came across…
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FutureCity and GreenCity Programs
VentureVillage – Future City & Green City Programs – Teaser Video#finland#education#positive#change#futureready
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Blog25 November 2019
VentureVillage meets CKCL
The representatives of VentureVillage Mr.Anup Jinadevan and Mr. Unnikrishnan Sreedhara Kurup together with Ms. Tuula Honkanen, ex-CEO of PHJ Oy, one of the largest waste management companies in Finland, met with MD Shri…
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Blog16 November 2019
Preparations ongoing for the FutureCity and GreenCity programs
VentureVillage team prepares for the sessions in November in schools across Kerala. The FutureCity and GreenCity program are ongoing currently. The preparations on going for the FutureCity planning session The…
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Blog15 October 2019
Meeting Indian Ambassador along with University of Helsinki-HY+ representatives
Mr. Unnikrishnan S. Kurup (Partner & Co-founder) and Mr. Anup Jinadevan (Partner & Co-founder) from VentureVillage met with Ambassador Ms. Vani Rao and representatives of University of Helsinki Center for Continuing…
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Blog14 October 2019
AN APPRAISAL OF THE NEW NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY DRAFT
On 31st May 2019, Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) released a draft of National Education Policy (NEP). The policy, first framed in 1986, is undergoing its first revamp in more than 25 years. It aims at…
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Blog6 October 2019
FutureCity GamePlay Sessions
Let the children play.. On 5th October, 2019, the VentureVillage Team in Helsinki was involved in a game play and software testing session for our FutureCity module. The session involved 10 students from Ressu High…
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Team News15 September 2019
Meet Vignesh Manoj
“Being an entrepreneur I have observed that people who take the risk to start their own business are high on ideas and welcome any kind of innovative perspective too. I personally believe in happenings and the approach…
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Blog15 September 2019
Schools in Finland Get Their Students FutureReady. India Can Too
Finland has been a by-word for high quality school education over the last 2 decades.The country has consistently performed at the top in international literacy and numeracy rankings since PISA rankings were first…
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Blog5 August 2019
Significance of Role Play in Education
How can you make a mundane history lesson come alive in a classroom? What is the best way to teach kids a play? How can we teach traffic rules to students in an interactive and fun manner? The answer to these questions…
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News9 July 2019
Role of teachers in the education system in Finland
The Finnish education system is built on trust. Trust in the quality of teachers. Trust in the training given to teachers. Trust in the ability of a teacher to decide the method of teaching, teaching material and…
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News19 June 2019
Niti Aayog CEO speaks on the importance of Resource Circularity
Amitabh Kant, the CEO of Niti Aayog, spoke about the potential of Circular Economy to create 1.4 crore jobs in the next 5 – 7 years. Speaking at the Circular Economy Symposium 2019 organised by Federation of Indian…
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