Central Finland Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year 2023 recognition for Äänekoski
Mika Matilainen has purposefully promoted entrepreneurship education in his own networks

The best entrepreneurship educators of 2023 were awarded and Central Finland's award went to Äänekoski for the city's Entrepreneurship Education Responsibility Teacher Mika Matilainen! The YES network, Finland's most significant entrepreneurship education operator, annually awards Finnish operators for their work in promoting entrepreneurship education. The awarded 2023 YES Agents have purposefully promoted entrepreneurship education in their own networks.
The YES Agent of the Year - Developer of Entrepreneurship Education recognition is awarded by the National YES Association together with the YES network. Recognition can be given to a person, team or organization that has promoted entrepreneurship education and an entrepreneurial culture.
- With this recognition, we want to bring to light the cooperation that is carried out in entrepreneurship education in different regions and in different organizations. Coaching young people for the future belongs to everyone, and by developing the entrepreneurial capabilities of children and young people, we help them find their own strengths and find their place in working life. The YES Agents of 2023 have purposefully promoted entrepreneurship education in their own networks, thanks the executive director of YES ry Sanna Lehtonen.
- The YES network and its regional actors warmly thank all the YES Agents of the year for their work for entrepreneurship education. Successful entrepreneurship education is channeled into the attitudes and capabilities of young people and in the long run produces competence, well-being and vitality, says Lehtonen.
Building the future starts at school
Äänekoski conducts uniform and long-term entrepreneurship education. Teacher Mika Matilainen has been developing e.g. entrepreneurship education curriculum, thanks to which Äänekoski is a pioneer in entrepreneurship education in Finland. Entrepreneurship education is a central and functional part of every school's everyday life in Äänekoski, right from pre-school. Äänekoski wants to invest in entrepreneurship education in a planned and long-term way.
- Building the future starts at school. Mika Matilainen believes that by teaching working life skills and entrepreneurial skills and attitudes, the vitality of not only Äänekoski but the entire province is supported.
- With Äänekoski's entrepreneurship education, we want above all to support children and young people in building their own future and help everyone find their own strengths, foster a positive entrepreneurial attitude and promote the emergence of internal entrepreneurship.
The school is not a separate island and we want the doors open to the rest of society. Äänekoski has numerous active cooperation and sponsor companies with which entrepreneurship education is carried out together.
The entrepreneurship educator award is celebrated at the beginning of the year together with the management of the city of Äänekoski, the people of entrepreneurship education and cooperation companies from Äänekoski.
For more information:
Bulletin of the YES network 11.12.2023 December XNUMX
Entrepreneurship education in the city of Äänekoski
Äänekoski's entrepreneurship education curriculum Entrepreneurship education path
Responsibility teacher of entrepreneurship education
Mika Matilainen
040 624 0406
mika.matilainen@aanekoski.fi
News published 11.12.2023, modified 4.1.2024/09/56 at XNUMX:XNUMX