AKIPRESS.COM - Minister of Education and Science Luvsantseren Enkh-Amgalan met with non-resident Ambassador of Finland Ms. Leena-Kaisa Mikkola on March 28, Montsame reported.

The Minister of Education and Science congratulated the Ambasador with presentation of her Letter of Credence to the President of Mongolia and wished her success in her diplomatic mission.

In 2022, the Working Group of the Ministry of Education and Science set up with the purpose of revision of the law on education visited Finland twice to explore Finland's education system. During the visit, members of the Working Group visited some government organizations, universities and kindergartens.

The Ministry of Education and Science and Eduten company, a spin-off of University of Turku, Finland signed Memorandum of Understanding last year. As a result, Mongolian secondary school students have been able to use Eduten, digital math learning platform, in their mother language.

Minister of Education and Science expressed intends to cooperate in short and long term capacity building training for university teachers, matching funds for students and “President’s Scholar-2100” scholarship program of the President of Mongolia with Finland's universities. In response, Ambassador Ms. Leena-Kaisa Mikkola indicated her readiness to further expand the bilateral cooperation, especially in education sector.