What is KiViTa?
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What is KiViTa?
KiViTa was a collaborative project in language and communication teaching for higher education institutions in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. The project provided language and communication courses to the institutions’ students and staff.
From the beginning of 2025, KiViTa-related collaboration has focused on staff training. Courses for students will be piloted again in the near future, as enabled by a cross-institutional study service. This website will be updated with further information on the collaboration’s progress.
Institution staff register for courses using electronic forms, available via links included in the Moodle course descriptions.
Project goals and participants
KiViTa was a project expanding collaborative language and communication teaching at four universities: Aalto University, the University of Helsinki, the University of the Arts Helsinki and the Hanken School of Economics made their teaching available to all higher education institutions in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. The partners developed language and communication teaching as well as pedagogical approaches that consider the needs of various educational fields. KiViTa allowed the institutions to develop flexible hybrid and digital pedagogy to meet the demands of continuous learning and future skill requirements. Coordinated by Aalto University, the project ran until the end of 2024.
Despite the project having concluded, its associated collaboration continues, for example, in the form of staff courses. The institutions are also continuing to develop teaching offered to students, and the collaborative provision will be piloted in the new cross-institutional study service once its technical solutions have been adequately prepared.
Collaboration between the language centres of higher education institutions is important at a time when, in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, both the amount of international talent and the institutions’ student intake are growing considerably. Teaching an increasing number of international staff and multicultural groups in a foreign language necessitates the development and reform of language and communication studies at higher education institutions in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area.
Extensive teaching offerings across the institutions enhance their appeal to international talent and help in recruiting international students and staff. The appropriate allocation of teaching resources also strengthens the national language reserve and improves language and communication skills.