Joonas Niemi, Programme coordinator of the Finnish Schools on the Move programme, will provide a free webinar on Wednesday, 17 June, from 12:00 to 13:30 UTC time.
The Finnish Schools on the Move is a national action programme aiming to establish a physically active culture in Finnish comprehensive schools.
In this webinar, participants will learn more about this internationally recognized physical activity promotion programme. Topics will be "What is Schools on the Move program and how it became a national success story, covering 90% of Finnish comprehensive schools?", "Why is it important to increase physical activity during the school day", "What are the different types of components to increase physical activity in schools", "Program research and results of positive changes in children’s physical activity", "How the teachers are trained to use physically active learning methods during teaching?" and "Temporary Finnish school abroad: How it is done and why?".
Interested persons can register for the webinar here.
More information about "Finnish Schools on the Move" in our "Good Practice" area or on schoolsonthemove.fi

The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has released lots of material on how to tackle COVID-19. On the OECD web site, various pandemic related articles, papers and reports are available. Besides topics such as business, labour market, healthcare, environment, international cooperations, social challenges, digitalization, fiscal & monetary policies, and more, one collection deals with "education and skills".
In addition to various articles and papers in this collection, the report "A Framework to guide an Education Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020" has been released, which aims at supporting education decision making to develop and implement effective education responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The report offers a framework to guide the development of context-specific education strategies. It includes a checklist of 25 points to support the development of an education strategy during the pandemic. This can be used by national, state or local education authorities or by leaders of education networks. The most critical needs that should be addressed are: ensuring academic learning for students, supporting students who lack skills for independent study, ensuring the wellbeing of students, providing professional support for teachers and ensuring wellbeing of teachers and medical attention to teachers.
You can read the report here.

The World Health Organization (WHO), supported by the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (UN-OICT), UNAIDS, the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF, challenge you to use your bright minds and entrepreneurial skills to address one of the of urgent health challenges for the next decade: Keeping young people safe.
The range of possible health innovation solutions that may be submitted include: apps or games; wearables, digital technologies, tools or platforms, products; the creation or improvement of products, services, processes; new approaches to collaboration or communication, or new ways of engaging young people and/or other stakeholders; policy reform proposals - with a view to keeping young people safe across the world.
Health innovations are defined here as the creation or improvement of virtual, physical or digital products, services, processes, or systems to improve public health.
Individuals and groups of up to four (4) individuals are invited to respond to the challenge by submitting a proposed solution to the challenge. There are no age restrictions. Only one (1) submission is allowed per individual or group of individuals. Submissions must be made in your own personal capacity, and not as representative of an organization.
Submissions will be accepted globally, but priority will be given to submissions that demonstrate respect for gender diversity and involvement of young people exposed to, affected by or living with the issue/risk/disease/condition in the development of the respective solution.
All submissions will be featured on the challenge webpage on the Unite Ideas platform. The winners and their proposals will be mentioned on the WHO public website and invited to attend an award ceremony at WHO’s Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland in June 2020 (date and other details TBC). Flights and accommodation will be covered by WHO, in accordance with its rules and procedures, for up to three winners (one individual representative of each winning proposal).
Submit your solution by 15 April 2020. More details about the challenge can be found here.