Sustainable Development in education

Equality, accountability for the environment and the community, and cultural awareness.

Sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment at Perho Culi­nary, Tourism & Busi­ness Col­lege is part of the tu­ition in many ways at our dif­fer­ent cam­puses. Stud­ies in­clude sub­jects such as neigh­bor­hood cul­ture and the cul­tures and cus­toms of other coun­tries. Va­ri­ety of cul­tures & their prac­tices as well as in­ter­na­tional foods and drinks are stud­ied at Perho. Vis­its to the lo­cal cul­tural sites and events are or­ga­nized (Ho­tel and Restau­rant Mu­seum, art mu­se­ums and the­ater per­for­mances).

Tourism stu­dents prac­tice travel guid­ance, stu­dents of restau­rant field be­come fa­mil­iar with in­ter­na­tional food, and busi­ness stu­dents have pos­si­bil­ity to look at dif­fer­ent cul­tures from the cus­tomer ser­vice point of view. In ad­di­tion, some stu­dents are ei­ther study­ing or per­form­ing their on-the-job learn­ing abroad.

The stu­dents of the sus­tain­able gas­tron­omy study mod­ule have the op­por­tu­nity to visit food pro­duc­ers and farms; to see how an­i­mals are be­ing raised and what all it takes to grow food on a farm. Dur­ing the stud­ies of sales and cus­tomer ser­vice, stu­dents have pos­si­bil­ity to sell and pro­mote lo­cally pro­duced in­gre­di­ents.

Re­spon­si­bil­ity is an im­por­tant part of teach­ing and train­ing. In the class­room and learn­ing kitchens, at­ten­tion is paid to, for ex­am­ple, ma­te­rial pro­cure­ment and the use of en­ergy and wa­ter con­sump­tion, re­cy­cling and food life cy­cles. These same themes are also dealt with in busi­ness stud­ies. It is im­por­tant for a cus­tomer ser­vice provider to be able to ad­vise cus­tomers on se­lect­ing re­spon­si­ble prod­ucts such as eco-la­beled prod­ucts. In tourism train­ing, re­spon­si­ble plan­ning and the un­der­stand­ing of sus­tain­able ar­eas of de­vel­op­ment is part of vo­ca­tional ed­u­ca­tion.

The cam­puses also hold sus­tain­able de­vel­om­pent events such as the yearly en­vi­ron­men­tal day at Malmi cam­pus. Töölö and Malmi Cam­pus also or­ga­nize a Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Work­shop dur­ing Open Doors Days ev­ery Jan­u­ary.  The aim is to de­velop en­vi­ron­men­tally con­scious and sus­tain­able life­style pro­fes­sion­als who de­velop their qual­i­fi­ca­tions while car­ry­ing out their sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment skills, knowl­edge, skills and at­ti­tudes.