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of the Storehouse of Ideas is to find different partners in the private sector who have creative ideas and to further develop these ideas in cooperation with the university members. Novapinus OÜ, Game- Club, creativeeducation.ee, Ruutu10, and the Estonian Association of Supervision and Coaching joined the Storehouse of Ideas in 2014. Partners exhibit their educational products in the rooms of the Store- house of Ideas, and organise training sessions, seminars and product introduction days.
In 2014, the CIE initiated the tradition of the school leaders´ Round Table, where the world practices of school management and the best Estonian experiences are introduced and shared. The morn- ing coffee event of school leaders took place within the framework of the Round Table with 25 participants. The Round Table for school leaders provided an overview of the survey of their management style and also experiences on changes in school organisation arising from the changing approach to learning and learning were shared.
In 2014, the CIE made a successful start of the continuing educa- tion programme, Education4Future aimed at school leaders. A total of 13 Estonian school leaders, teachers and educational leaders grad- uated the first year. Education4Future is a 10-month international (Estonia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Liechtenstein) academic con- tinuing education programme which aims to develop the knowledge and attitudes of the school leaders in the light of the 21st century educational challenges, shape competent school leaders, and devel- op the school leaders’ leadership competencies in both international and local education sphere. As there is high interest by school leaders in cooperation, an experience exchange programme as a continua- tion of Education4Future studies was offered, where school leaders share their experience in the form of job shadowing, supervision, etc.
In order to offer continuing education for teachers for imple- menting the contemporary approach to learning and teaching and in- volving education pursuant to the teacher´s competences described in the professional standard and priorities agreed upon at state level, the CIE conducted (with organisational support from TU Centre for Continuing Education) seven training sessions for teachers in which the best practitioners from the university, general schools and the private sector were involved. A total 167 teachers participated in these trainings.
In the second half of 2014, the CIE created the Teachers Acad- emy dealing with professional development of teachers and school leaders. The Academy is a complete professional development sup- port system for a teacher - a teacher at school or university, a school leader and more broadly, an educational leader.
4.2 KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER ACTIVITY
The university concluded a total of 36 agreements with Estonian entrepreneurs in 2014. Altogether a profit of €2.1 million was received from applied projects and knowledge service; of this amount, €251,000 was derived from assignments ordered by private companies. The pri- ority of the knowledge transfer initiative was to increase the number of agreements concluded with entrepreneurs. The year 2014 saw an increase of 47% compared to 2013.
The most entrepreneurial units cooperating with entrepreneurs were the Institute of Ecology, the Institute of Informatics, the Bal- tic Film and Media School, the Institute of Communication, the In- stitute of Health Sciences and Sports, Haapsalu College (including TERE Competence Centre), Estonian Institute for Futures Studies and the Institute of Educational Sciences. Companies such as Game- founders Ltd, Samsung Electronics Baltics Sia, Transiidikeskuse AS, Estonian Logistics and Freight Forwarding Association, Helsingin Sanomain Säätiö and many others ordered consultation and devel- opment work from TU.
For the tenth occasion, TU awarded the titles of Entrepreneurial Research Fellow and Entrepreneurial Unit. Based on the data of 2014, Valdo Liblik, a senior specialist of the Institute of Ecology, achieved the best results in organising applied studies in cooperation with en- terprises and business establishments. The Institute of Ecology and the Institute of History shared the title of the Entrepreneurial Unit.
The Bachelor´s thesis “Environmental influence accompanying the pumping of groundwater in oil shale mining and measures for their reduction” by Mariliis Eensalu was acknowledged as the best work in the contest of applied projects in cooperation with the Tal- linn City Enterprise Board. “Pictorial dictionary of sign language for bakery students” by Sandra Praats, which is successfully used in the
Astangu Vocational Rehabilitation Centre, received the second prize. Also, the third prize was awarded to a MA thesis from the field of ecology: “Structure and biomass of plant cover on a milled peat field
undergoing reforestation” by Anna-Helena Purre.
4.3 ACADEMIC LIBRARY
During 2014, the TU Academic Library organised several interesting special events. The Centre for Early Printed Book compiled an old books exhibition “Tallinn city and gymnasium printing house 1634
– 1828” and continued with the lecture series “A researcher in the Baltica reading hall” and “Introduction of the Baltica collections”, in- cluding six events. In September, the Expatriate Estonian Literature Centre organised a 2-day international research conference “70 years
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