Outdoor studies

During our trip, we are obviously going to study at the university but we're also going to investigate about Finland, we chose to study:

• Finnish movies and/or literature

Writers like Arto Paasilinna or Kari Hotakainen are worldy famous and we hope to discover them and many others. Besides movies can show a lot of the history of a country. So we expect to find interesting Finnish movies and analyze them to understand more things of Finland.

• Activities of Finnish youth

Young Scandinavian people are known  to be very good at languages and we would like to know how they are raised, what makes them having a different mind and a different education, that's why we would like to know what activities in general they're doing, what sports, what activities at home...

• Enterprises and the way they consider the environment

Varkaus is surrounded by forests, hence it is skilled in forestry and paper milling, energy production and high technology. Besides, Varkaus has got an experimental biodiesel plant and a lithium battery factory that started production in 2011. We will try to compare their organisation with the french one and we will try to understand their point of view about the environment.

• Finnish way of life

Living in a foreign country is always complicated and we will have to understand how Finnish people live, how they think...

Of course this is just the beginning of our researchs and these will  probably slightly change.
Anyway, we are very excited to discover Finland and Finnish people.