HELEA training hosted on 18-22 March 2019 in Oulu, Finland. Participating teachers: Helena Botelho, Helena Duarte, Fernanda Pereira and Irene Ramos.

Main objectives of the course:

- Comparing, in practice, through the Internet, the virtual handicraft with the real handicraft made by their own hands;
- Improve teacher skills to implement traditional Finnish handicrafts (also known in other countries), learn more about the process and the product and also use it to develop identity and encourage integration;
- Gain good practice experience in crafts, materials, ideas, and safety in the classroom by learning how to tailor the current craft to different levels in the school;
- Acquire knowledge of the Finnish curriculum and crafts as a whole process, weekly / annual hours used, objectives, examples and promotion of gender equality;
- Know more about Finland and Finnish culture and nature as a source of creativity;
- Knowing how students in Finland have a living connection with crafts through education and understanding how to create materials themselves is part of Finnish culture;
- Encourage increased English language skills;
- Streamline diverse forms for a more sustainable culture, increasing the ability to understand more about the environment and reuse;
- Experience the effects of craftsmanship: positive self-esteem, the feeling of doing some work, relaxation, the possibility of opening one's mind to new ideas, learning about ourselves and the world, learning techniques, striking a balance between mind and self. body, material and color experience, and significant work feeling;
- Develop the European dimension and globalization by cooperating on-going with teachers from different European countries and at different school levels. Have cooperative activities learning how to use eTwinning to contact and start new international projects after the course.