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Learn­ing skills at the fore Traditionally, teachers have primarily taught school subjects. Today, however, we are moving away from subjects and towards a future where teachers will increasingly teach comprehensive learning skills. This will make teaching more and more problem and phenomenon based. As a result, future learning will take place in multidisciplinary projects that centre on complex phenomena and develop learners’ problem‑solving and thinking skills. New technologies will also be integrated into teaching, and learning environments will be increasingly modified to promote learning. Our memory does not work like a scanner that accepts information as given. Instead, we draw conclusions and construct meanings for and on what we have learned. Our schools already rely on these and many other findings in neuropsychology and educational psychology. In practice, this means that schools have begun to offer multidisciplinary learning concepts and universities multidisciplinary degree programmes. Con­tin­ued suc­cess re­quires con­stant pro­gress The top five countries in natural sciences, reading and mathematics in the 2015 PISA survey were Singapore, Japan, Estonia, Taiwan and Finland. This makes sense: technologically advanced countries that apply the latest findings in international research tend to do well in educational rankings. The narrative of Finns rising from rags to riches speaks to many countries – many African countries, for example, are still combatting poverty. Finland’s education system enjoys tremendous appreciation in many countries, especially in Asia, where children spend almost twice as much time at school as Finnish children to beat Finland in rankings. In fact, in many countries, teaching is still largely based on learning things by heart. In contrast, Finnish schools seek to activate and engage children. Finnish education is in high demand internationally. But we should not export the school system we used to have, because we are among the leading countries in creating new innovations in education. Instead, we should – as we do – develop new export products in collaboration with universities, universities of applied sciences and companies. Retaining our place at the global top is possible only through continuous development, research and learning. If we want to continue to be the best, we cannot hold on to today or the past. Instead, we must invest even more in education and in the top research that drives it forward. Future Education