North Municipal Education and Training Consortium

Future professionals in working life 17 000 800 students annually staff

We are one of the largest over 300 vocational 60 educationand different million training (VET) qualifications turnover provider in

WIDE RANGE OF EDUCATION

// Vocational upper secondary education // Further vocational and specialist vocational qualifications // Liberal adult and summer university education // Finnish language, culture and vocational ecudation for immigrants MANY TRAINING CENTRES Our area of operation covers the entire region of formed by the 13 municipalities, the owners of Riveria. NORTH KARELIA We have training centres in (the capital FINLAND of North Karelia), Kitee, , , Outokumpu and .

AWARDED BY THE FINNISH MINISTR Y OF EDUCATION

The Finnish Ministry of Education has awarded our organization with Finland’s vocational training quality award in years 2002, 2008, 2012 and 2016. INTERNATIONAL RIVERIA

The main function of our international operations is to grow Riveria’s international profile through increasing the number of exchanges of students and educa- tion professionals. Riveria students can participate in international projects, host foreign students and travel to other countries to com- plete a part of their professional training in foreign companies.

Foreign students are welcome to take part in the full qualification pro- grammes, complete certain modules in our CONTACT training centres or have professional training in local companies under the guidance and INFORMATION supervision of our teachers. Riveria teachers and other staff members take part in ex- Esa Karvinen change programmes and other partnership Principal projects. // tel +358 50 327 8191 // [email protected] We organize training in a wide range of professions in multidiscipli- nary ways. We always tailor our cooperation Ara Hayrabedian according to clients’ needs. We can organise International Developer tailor-made diverse study visits, including // tel +358 50 311 5787 special training programmes and seminars, // [email protected] in collaboration with other local education providers.

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