Padlet for Focus on Finland by Jaromír Bartů https://padlet.com/babartba/3rln5q6t03l1 en-us 2017-04-05 17:44:14 UTC 2017-04-13 08:49:11 UTC hello@padlet.com Topic 1 - Finnish past babartba https://padlet.com/babartba/3rln5q6t03l1/wish/164962859 What else did you know about the Finnish past?
I knew only very little. The only major thing that I knew, was about the brave defense of Finnish army during the conflict with Russia. I also know, that level of Finish ice-hockey players improved significantly in past 30 years, but that is probably beside the point of this question. :-)

Was there something surprising to you?
I was surprised by the population of Finland as well as population density. I also did not know about Finnish love for coffee. But regarding history, I thought that Finland is independent much longer. Other than that, considering Finnish population, it is very wonderful that Fins could defend their country in all those conflicts and become independent in the end.

Do you know what the current demographics of the population looks like?
I heard, that the population is getting older, just like in many other European countries. That may be one of the reasons why the unemployment rate is rising in Finland too. I think that, since the Finnish education system is legendary, the population in country is highly educated. And ethnicity is dominated by white people.]]> 2017-04-05 17:53:53 UTC https://padlet.com/babartba/3rln5q6t03l1/wish/164962859 Who am I ... babartba https://padlet.com/babartba/3rln5q6t03l1/wish/164963767
What´s up!?
My name is Jaromír Bartů and I already celebrated first quarter century of my life in January this year. I am from Czech Republic, small country in middle of Europe and I study Economics and Management almost for 5 years - hopefully I will get my master degree next year.

And about studying abroad. I was never very enthusiastic about traveling or even studying somewhere far from my home. But any of my friends, who tried Erasmus, was so excited about it, that it did not took long before they convinced me to apply for it too - so here I am!

P.S.: Link to my blog]]> 2017-04-05 17:56:45 UTC https://padlet.com/babartba/3rln5q6t03l1/wish/164963767 Topic 2 - Future of Finnish ecnomy babartba https://padlet.com/babartba/3rln5q6t03l1/wish/164990655 Finnish economy will be in the future correlated with performance of European union, even though that they are more connected with their northern neighbors and Russia. There is expected continuous growth across whole Europe in next year. Problems may come with elections in important countries (France, Germany, etc.), which could cause economic disturbance. Other than that, Finland should be growing alongside with its trade partners.

There are also some inner problems, for example considerably high unemployment and problems with social system. In my opinion, government will be able to deal with this and other potential problems, just like it did in past.
]]> 2017-04-05 19:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/babartba/3rln5q6t03l1/wish/164990655 My points for topic 3: babartba https://padlet.com/babartba/3rln5q6t03l1/wish/165154442
  • Finnish company Nokia (its mobile division) was bought by Microsoft. At that time, their phones implemented windows as operation system, which was not very successful and so their phones little by little disappeared. Nowadays Nokia made its comeback with legendary 3310 model and many others.
  • Also, Finnish trade was influenced by EU sanctions against Russia. Since Russia is important trade partner for Finland, negative impacts were seen across industries all over Finland.
  • Even though Finland is part of European union with all its pros and cons (inside economies are influenced by each other), effects of this dependence are lowered by all northern alliances.
    • ]]>     2017-04-06 14:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/babartba/3rln5q6t03l1/wish/165154442     Topic 4 - Kotipizza babartba https://padlet.com/babartba/3rln5q6t03l1/wish/165154691 There are approximately 260 Kotipizza restaurants, which are all, except for one, operated by independent franchisees. All in all, there are nearly 300 franchisees in the Kotipizza chain. Kotipizza is Finland’s and Nordic’s largest pizza chain and one of the best-known restaurant brands in Finland.

    Their aim is to develop new fast casual restaurant concepts. A new chapter in Kotipizza Group’s story started in July 2015 when the company was listed in Nasdaq OMX Helsinki becoming the first franchising company in Finland to go public.

    They are also taking the value of CSR and trying to figure out new "fast restaurants".]]>     2017-04-06 14:31:47 UTC https://padlet.com/babartba/3rln5q6t03l1/wish/165154691     Topic 5 - My experience with Finnish education system babartba https://padlet.com/babartba/3rln5q6t03l1/wish/165177686 Since I did not have any opportunity to work in Finland, I will write about my experience on university. The education style is almost completely different from what I know from Czech Republic. We usually have two kinds of lessons per week – two hours of theoretical lecture and two hours of “wannabe practical” seminars. We do not separate semesters into periods, so every course takes a whole semester to complete. Somehow similar are the projects, but it is necessary to successfully complete project in Czech so you can later go and take the exam. Not like here in Kouvola, where is the course usually finished with it. We also undertake many tests during the semester and other tasks, but that is like the assignments on XAMK. Another difference is the number of students, in Kouvola every lesson is very personal since there is not more than 30 students, but in our seminars, there is sometimes even 50 students and on theoretical lectures event hundreds of students.

    ]]>     2017-04-06 15:34:35 UTC https://padlet.com/babartba/3rln5q6t03l1/wish/165177686     Topic 6 - ERM babartba https://padlet.com/babartba/3rln5q6t03l1/wish/165406765 What are the rights about?
    The rights are about decency and nice behavior in Finnish nature, specifically in national parks. It is good to know what everyone can and cannot do here in Finland, moreover if it is stated in this simple way on website and as so easy to reach. If someone is interested in more details, he or she can download booklet, where are all the rules explained in details. Other than that, the rules do not look that strict, so everyone probably suspects what is prohibited, which is basically everything that may damage the nature.

    Do you have the same in your country?
    Yes, there are even more strict rules in Czech. We are used to specific interpretation of law – anything that is not stated is allowed. Because of that, we have only restrictions stated in law and on websites of national parks. Our rules are stricter – example could be that it is forbidden to let dog running loose, go anywhere outside the marked paths or even ride horses there. There are of course more examples, but this is enough for demonstration. I think that our rules are more strict than Finnish ones, mainly because of the different nature and culture of local people. Fins are very honest and are used to very low crime rate, Czech people are unfortunately almost opposite, not completely of course, but we like to take advantage of imperfect laws and because of that, lawmakers must be strict.

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