CREATIVE EDUCATION

FOR FUTURE INNOVATORS

08/2019
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in South East
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Asia – Vietnam 2018
ARKKI © ARKKI – ©
SCHOOL
ARKKI –OF CREATIVE
SCHOOL OFEDUCATION FOR
CREATIVITY CHILDREN
FOR FUTURE AND YOUTH, SINCE 1993
INNOVATORS
 “65% of children currently entering primary school will have jobs that do not yet exist.” - WEF

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 Creative Education for Children and Youth is the missing part
in most Startup & Innovation Ecosystems and Creative Economies around the World.

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 TRANSFORMATION OF FINLAND’S EDUCATION SYSTEM

FINLAND’S NATIONAL GOALS

FOR BASIC EDUCATION AND 21st CENTURY SKILLS AND QUALITIES
TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCIES

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 EDUCATIONAL GOALS OF ARKKI

MULTI- 21ST-CENTURY STARTUP

DISCIPLINARY SKILLS CAPABILITY
COMPETENCY & &
HUMANLY- ENTREPRENEURIAL
(STEAM SUBJECTS DISTINCTIVE SPIRIT
& BEYOND) QUALITIES

CREATIVE EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE OF WORK

Agile & life-long learners with entrepreneurial spirit and futureproof skills
to emerge into the World, into and beyond the 21st-century,
and extend to their full potential and competitive advantages.

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 ABOUT ARKKI

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 ARKKI INTERNATIONAL

» World’s leading School of Creativity for Future Innovators,

» National extracurricular creative education program of Finland,
approved by Finnish Ministry of Education & Culture since 1993,
» Certified by Finnish National Agency for Education to export
Finnish education know-hows to other countries since 2014,
» 20.000+ children and youth from 20+ countries,
» Schools in 18 Cities of Finland, China, Czech, Cyprus, Greece,
Thailand, Vietnam; and expanding.

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 ARKKI INTERNATIONAL

Mdm. PIHLA MESKANEN

- Knight First Class of the Order of Lion of Finland
- Inventor of Arkki Creative Education Program
- Member, Finland’s National Curriculum Team
- CEO & Founder, Arkki International

Pihla Meskanen is an architect and a pedagogue who is specialised in creative

education. She is the CEO and founder of Arkki International Ltd and the
inventor of the Arkki creative edcucation program, which is certified by the
Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture. Meskanen has received many
awards for her outstanding achievements in education, especially the honor of
the Knight First Class of the Order of Lion of Finland by the President of the
Republic of Finland, and Educator of the Year.

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 ARKKI INTERNATIONAL

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 ARKKI ASEAN

» Supported by the Governments of Finland and Vietnam to bring

creative education programs to the 10 countries of ASEAN,
» Three main activities:
• Build a systematic & progressive creative education platform
for children & youth from 4 – 19 years old,
• Connect children between ASEAN countries, and with Finland
through international camps, playgrounds and exchange programs,
• Connect children with the startup & innovation ecosystem as a whole.
» Viet Motion Ltd., a Vietnam-based social enterprise, has been
appointed as the Franchisor in the ASEAN, and is looking for Master
Franchise Partners across the 10 ASEAN countries.

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 WHAT DO CHILDREN LEARN AT ARKKI?
DESIGN THINKING
» Design Thinking becomes a
second nature in solving any
problem: Empathize –
Define - Ideate - Prototype –
Test
» Skills to face the challenges
of rapidly changing society
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MAKERSPACE INTER-DISCIPLINARY
» Mindset: Value of STEAM SKILLS
innovation comes from a » Complex Problem Solving
continuous process of Skills integrating:
change and improvement  Science
» Fast prototyping & testing  Technology
for any project idea  Engineering
» Project Planning &  Arts + Humanities
Management + Social Sciences
 Mathematics
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 WHAT DO CHILDREN LEARN AT ARKKI?
21st CENTURY SKILLS: The 5C’s
» Complex Problem Solving
» Creativity
» Critical Thinking
» Collaboration
» Communication

HUMANLY-DISTINCTIVE VALUES
» Curiosity
» Initiative
» Persistence
» Adaptability
» leadership
» Social & Cultural Awareness
» Emotional Intelligence

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 WHAT DO CHILDREN LEARN AT ARKKI?

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 ARKKI PHILOSOPHY
PLAY – CREATE – SUCCEED!
Arkki´s phenomenon-based educational modules are designed so that
everybody learns through success, positive feedback and cooperative
learning.

Play: To enjoy learnings as well as the process of exploring and

experimenting, as a critical element for agile and life-long learning.

Create: To take thinking habits to higher levels than remembering facts; to

understand them, infer from them, connect them to other facts and
concepts, categorize them, manipulate them, put them together in new or
novel ways, and apply them as we seek new solutions to new problems.

Succeed: To facilitate every student to succeed in exploring and learning

in their own ways, and in collaborating and learning from peers, so that
new knowledge and skills are always absorbed with uplifting emotion &
experience.

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 ARKKI PEDAGOGY
EACH CLASS IS A MAKERSPACE!

Through working with many different tools and materials, children

gain and expand their “creative vocabulary”, and use this new
language to communicate and bring their ideas to life.

Through hands-on experimenting, creative problem solving and

collaborative learning, Arkki‘s education is both personalized for
each child and cultivated as a collective group experience.

In that way, children can freely and naturally explore their talents,
preferences and hobbies; practice the necessary skills for future
world of work.

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 ARKKI PEDAGOGY
THE 4P’S OF THE CREATIVE LEARNING PROCESS
PROJECT: PASSION:
People learn best when When people work on
they are actively working projects they care about,
on meaningful projects – they work longer and
generating new ideas, harder, persist in the face
designing prototypes, of challenges, and learn
refining iteratively. more in the process.

PEERS: PLAY:
Learning flourishes as a Learning involves playful
social activity, with experimentation – trying
people sharing ideas, new things, tinkering with
collaborating on materials, testing
projects, and building on boundaries, taking risks,
one another’s work. iterating again and again.

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 ARKKI PEDAGOGY

Phenomenon-based
Hands-on Learning Learning by doing Project based learning
Learning

Creative Problem
Peer learning Design Thinking Multisensory Learning
Solving

Learning by Playing
Teacher as Facilitator 3D Learning 1:1 Learning
- Productive Play

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 WHY ARCHITECTURE?

Requiring inter-disciplinary skills and knowledges, aesthetic and

empathetic understanding of human demands, as well as the
natural and built environments, architecture is exceptional in
providing provide holistic real-world phenomenon-based learning
projects.

Architecture provides intriguing building & design projects for

children and adults alike, that are closely related to their daily life,
from small scale (e.g. tower building, product design, etc.) to large
and grand scale (e.g. city urban planning, school of future, etc.).

Architecture has been proved as a national creative education and

STEAM education subject in Finland from 1993, and in the U.S
from 2018.

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 ARKKI PROGRAMS

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 ARKKI PROGRAMS
PROGRAM TARGET DURATION
01 session/week, 90 min/session
1. Long-term Module-based Course Children: 4 – 19 y.o. 30 module, 15 – 20 session/module,
including 01 fieldtrip + 01 exhibition

2. Theme Course/ Summer Camp Children: 8 – 19 y.o. 5 days, 8 hours/ day

Children: 4 – 19 y.o. 3 hours, 8 hours, and customizable

3. Workshop & Mega-Workshop
Family 3 hours, 8 hours, and customizable
4. Innovation/ Recreation/ Team
Corporate 3 hours, 8 hours, and customizable
Building Training & Workshop

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 1. LONG-TERM MODULE-BASED COURSE

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 1. LONG-TERM MODULE-BASED COURSE
“In Arkki, you learn creative thinking […]. There
has been some bigger projects here and they’re
something really special where the scale of the
project is already so big that you really have to
take yourself to your limits and do your best.

I think every model building, every project, every

designs are always about problem solving in
their own ways. And that was the time I really
realized how important is not only the final
design but this design process as well.”
Video: Student Interview re. the Long-term Course
– Joosua Kuusela, Arkki Student for 9 Years

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 1. LONG-TERM MODULE-BASED COURSE
MODULE 1A

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 1. LONG-TERM MODULE-BASED COURSE
MODULE 1B

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 1. LONG-TERM MODULE-BASED COURSE
MODULE 2A

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PROGRAM TARGET DURATION
01 session/week, 90 min/session
1. Long-term Module-based Course Children: 4 – 19 y.o. 30 module, 15 – 20 session/module,
including 01 fieldtrip + 01 exhibition

2. Theme Course/ Summer Camp Children: 8 – 19 y.o. 5 days, 8 hours/ day

Children: 4 – 19 y.o. 3 hours, 8 hours, and customizable

3. Workshop & Mega-Workshop
Family 3 hours, 8 hours, and customizable
4. Innovation/ Recreation/ Team
Corporate 3 hours, 8 hours, and customizable
Building Training & Workshop

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 2. THEME COURSE/ SUMMER CAMP
Architecture & Design Environmental art

3D computer modeling Product design

Urban design Art

Modeling Sculpture

Design Hut building

Fashion design Hut building / family

Animation Snow architecture

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 2. THEME COURSE/ SUMMER CAMP
CHILDREN INNOVATE: SMART & CHILD-FRIENDLY CITY WITH UNICEF

HCMC DEPARTMENT OF
PLANNING &
ARCHITECTURE

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 2. THEME COURSE/ SUMMER CAMP
CHILDREN INNOVATE: PLANET-FRIENDLY PRODUCT DESIGN WITH UNICEF

Private Sector Engagement:

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 2. THEME COURSE/ SUMMER CAMP
PRODUCT DESIGN CAMP IN THAILAND
Private Sector Engagement:

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 2. THEME COURSE/ SUMMER CAMP
FASHION DESIGN WORKSHOP IN THAILAND
Private Sector Engagement:

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 2. THEME COURSE/ SUMMER CAMP
HUT BUILDING SUMMER CAMP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY IN FINLAND

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 ARKKI PROGRAMS
PROGRAM TARGET DURATION
01 session/week, 90 min/session
1. Long-term Module-based Course Children: 4 – 19 y.o. 30 module, 15 – 20 session/module,
including 01 fieldtrip + 01 exhibition

2. Theme Course/ Summer Camp Children: 8 – 19 y.o. 5 days, 8 hours/ day

Children: 4 – 19 y.o. 3 hours, 8 hours, and customizable

3. Workshop & Mega-Workshop
Family 3 hours, 8 hours, and customizable
4. Innovation/ Recreation/ Team
Corporate 3 hours, 8 hours, and customizable
Building Training & Workshop

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 3. CHILDREN/FAMILY WORKSHOP & MEGA-WORKSHOP

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 3. CHILDREN/FAMILY WORKSHOP & MEGA-WORKSHOP
BIRTHDAY PARTY: SWEET CITY & SWEET ARCHITECTURE

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 ARKKI PROGRAMS
PROGRAM TARGET DURATION
01 session/week, 90 min/session
1. Long-term Module-based Course Children: 4 – 19 y.o. 30 module, 15 – 20 session/module,
including 01 fieldtrip + 01 exhibition

2. Theme Course/ Summer Camp Children: 8 – 19 y.o. 5 days, 8 hours/ day

Children: 4 – 19 y.o. 3 hours, 8 hours, and customizable

3. Workshop & Mega-Workshop
Family 3 hours, 8 hours, and customizable
4. Innovation/ Recreation/ Team
Corporate 3 hours, 8 hours, and customizable
Building Training & Workshop

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 4. CORPORATE WORKSHOP
FOR CORPORATE EXECUTIVES AND EMPLOYEES
3D PROTOTYPING TECHNIQUES
@ ASEAN CORPORATE INNOVATION
SUMMIT (CIS) 2019
» Partner: RISE Accelerator Thailand
» Participants: C-level Executives, Founders,
Product Managers, Corporate Employees
» No. of Participants: 45
@ Bangkok - Thailand, 2019
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LIFE-LONG LEARNING & INNOVATION THROUGH DESIGN THINKING
INNOVATION TOOLS
» Partner: InnoLab Asia
» Partner: Unilever Vietnam
» Participants: C-level Executives, Founders,
» Participants: Executives, Department Leads Product Managers, Corporate Employees
and Employees
» No. of Participants: 70
» No. of Participants: 130
@ Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam, 2019
@ Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam, 2019
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 4. CORPORATE WORKSHOP
FOR GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY
CREATIVE CURRICULUM DESIGN
APPLYING DESIGN THINKING
» Partner: HCMC Department of Science and
Technology
» Participants: Management Team and
Teachers from 70 elementary-, secondary-
and high- schools in Ho Chi Minh City.
» No. of Participants: 300
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POLICY DESIGN
» Partner: People Committee of Dong Thap
» Participants: Policy Makers, Governmental
Officers, Deans of Public Universities and
other Educators.
» No. of Participants: 50
@ Dong Thap - Vietnam, 2019
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LOCAL OFFERING DESIGN
FROM LOCAL RESOURCES
» Partner: People Committee of Ben Tre
» Participants: Governmental Officers, SMEs &
Startups, and Students.
» No. of Participants: 80
@ Ben Tre - Vietnam, 2019
 5. ARKKI SOCIAL PROGRAMS
Children-Participatory in Urban Planning & Design Int. Summer Camp/ Books & Keynote
Exhibition/Workshop Toolkits Speakers

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 5. ARKKI SOCIAL PROGRAMS
ANNUAL SOCIAL INNOVATION TRAINING & INCUBATION PROGRAM
WITH UNICEF AND HCMC DOST IN VIETNAM

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 5. ARKKI SOCIAL PROGRAMS
STEAM & 21ST CENTURY SKILLS DESIGN THINKING & PEDAGOGY
TRAINING FOR 1400 STUDENTS TRAINING FOR 300 TEACHERS

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 5. ARKKI SOCIAL PROGRAMS
OTHER SOCIAL & COMMUNITY EVENTS

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 ARKKI FRANCHISE NETWORK
IN ASEAN

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 COLLABORATION OPPORTUNITY

MASTER FRANCHISE PARTNER IN ASEAN

DESIRED PARTNER PROFILE

» prior experience in education preferred,
» understands the critical needs of innovation skills for
the new generation,
» strong financial background in order to develop Arkki
as the leading school of innovation skills for children
and youth,
» strong management team to launch & sustain the
business.

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 REVENUE STREAMS
1. Sub-franchising or regional sub-franchising in territory
2. Operating own centers
3. Partnering with existing schools, skill centers, institutions to offer content
4. Running summer camps, short terms workshops (half a day, one day, 2 days) for both families and kids
5. Running private and public events for schools, institutions, organizations for kids (up to 3000 kids per
event)
6. Offering play-based innovation workshops for corporates
7. Offering innovation-driven team building activities for corporates
8. Incorporating content into running startup incubation programs, bootcamps for schools and universities
9. Introducing STEAM via Arkki programs to official education system for government and public schools

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 REVENUE STREAMS
INTRODUCING STEAM VIA ARKKI PROGRAMS
TO OFFICIAL EDUCATION SYSTEM FOR GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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 SUPPORT FROM FRANCHISOR
TEACHER KNOW-HOW OPERATION GLOBAL
TRAINING TRANSFER SUPPORT CONNECTEDNESS

» Teacher Training & » Manuals and » Setting-up Project » Global Teacher

Certification Guidelines Team Network
» Online Training & » Materials, » Marketing& » Regional & Global
Refresh Training Curriculum & Tools Branding Support Activities:
» Continuous Career » Materials & Tools » Operation/ Quality Competition,
Development Adaptation Audit & Advisory Summer Camp,
Exchange, etc.
» Education Trend
Updates & Training

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 DEVELOPING THE REGIONAL TEACHER COMMUNITY

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 E-ARKKI: GUIDELINES & MANUALS
E-Arkki is the online platform that provides trainings/ manuals/
guidelines /ready-to-use templates for all Arkki activities:
» Master-Franchise Partner Guidelines,
» Curriculum & Pedagogy,
» Teacher Management & Development,
» Working with Children, Working with Parents,
» Student Self-Assessment & Documentation,
» Educational Content & Teaching Materials,
» Brand and Marketing,
» Operation & Administration.

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 E-ARKKI: STUDENT SELF-ASSESSMENT

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 E-ARKKI: EDUCATIONAL CONTENTS

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 RECRUITMENT PROCESS

RECEIVE BRAND
RECEIVE AND SIGN
WE INFORMATION AND
NON-DISCLOSURE
FIRST CONTACT ARE COMPLETE MASTER 1ST INTERVIEW
HERE AGREEMENT
FRANCHISEE
(NDA).
REGISTRATION FORM.

RECEIVE, SIGN AND

RECEIVE , SIGN NATIONAL MARKET SETTING UP
SUBMIT INITIAL
LETTER OF INTENTION STRATEGY AND PROJECT TEAM
MASTER-FRANCHISING
(LOI) AND DEPOSIT OPERATION PLANNING AND LAUNCH.
FEE

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