In Finland, the vocational education and training system is
predominantly school-based. Education is organized mainly through
institutions but also as apprenticeship training that is a parallel
route to obtaining a vocational degree. A multifaceted example of the
long-standing system of company-driven vocational education can be found
in Finland. The interviews revealed that with regard to job security
and benefits, the distinction between general vocational education and
training and the KONE Industrial School training is remarkable. New
forms of cooperation among educational institutions, working life
organizations, and industry can yield answers to meet future educational
challenges by generating novel learning solutions developing and
distributing new kinds of competencies, innovations, and cutting-edge
expertise. Digitalization and other significant changes and developments
challenge professionals who face novel professional complexities and
entirely new skill requirements, as well as educational systems and
workplaces that generate the need to rethink and transform the ways in
which competencies are cultivated over lifetimes in the face of
accelerating change.