Hello, I am Mr. Jukka O. Mattila, your Finnish co-partner of the Study Visit 171! As a young physicist I started my work career in Finnish import and export companies (isotopes, nuclear analysis devices, radiation monitors etc). On later decades I served first as math & science teacher, then as Principal of a small upper secondary school.

In the late 1990’s I invited the Principals and teachers of other Finnish small upper secondary schools to a joint seminar. That was the beginning of the small upper secondary school movement in Finland. Since that, I have been running FASSS = Finnish Association of Small Secondary Schools. Currently FASSS has 144 member schools, each one with less than 120 pupils (pupil age 16-18 years).
Along with the small school movement I became interested in Quality Assurance and developed quality tools for secondary school use. Very few had done that before in Finland. Nowadays I travel around and provide Quality inservice training for teacher staffs. Within the Finnish Quality Association (Excellence Finland) I have for more than 10 years run two branches, since 2006 the Educational Branch of about 800 individual members.
My interest in Quality matters is based both on a long personal experience and in the business world practices.
Why I applied for Study Group 171: I am interested to find out, on which level and in which way different European countries handle the topic of Quality in education. I also look forward to receiving new contacts for FASSS and for myself via the other participants.
Hobbies: I love Physics teaching.