Contact information for the Upper Secondary Education and Youth Service unit
Contact information
Director of Upper Secondary Education and Youth Service
Tapio Erma
tel. +358 46 877 3216
tapio.erma@espoo.fi
Youth Service Manager
Merja Nordling
tel. +358 43 824 7060
merja.nordling@espoo.fi
Education Planning Chief
Jaakko Turpeinen
tel. +358 46 877 3903
jaakko.turpeinen@espoo.fi
Education Planner
Maija Metsola
tel. +358 40 636 5086
maija.metsola@espoo.fi
Planner
Susan Tuulosniemi
tel. +358 40 554 7381
susan.tuulosniemi@espoo.fi
System coordinator
Alice Ristell
tel. +358 50 353 6089
alice.ristell@espoo.fi
Communication Specialist
Maija Ruoho
tel. +358 40 552 7782
maija2.ruoho@espoo.fi
Communication Specialist
Katja Mäkelä
tel. +358 43 825 2319
katja.makela@espoo.fi
Secretary
Pirjo Rantala
tel. +358 43 827 2853
pirjo.c.rantala@espoo.fi
Project Coordinator
Kerttuli Punkari
040 6364 876
kerttuli.punkari@espoo.fi
Cultural Instructors
Donya Hajali
040 6366 297
donya.hajali@espoo.fi
I advise general upper secondary school students, their families, and school staff in Arabic and Finnish.
Cultural Instructors
Elena Junnila
040 6366 462
elena.junnila@espoo.fi
I advise general upper secondary school students, their families, and school staff in Russian and Finnish.
Cultural Instructors
Hamse Mohamed Muktar
040 6366 298
hamse.mohamedmuktar@espoo.fi
I advise general upper secondary school students, their families, and school staff in Somali, Finnish and English.
Cultural Instructors
Shan Zhu
040 6366 287
zhu.shan@espoo.fi
I advise general upper secondary school students, their families, and school staff in Chinese, Finnish, French and English.
At the beginning of the school year 2022–2023, the first cultural instructors started working in Espoo’s Finnish-speaking general upper secondary schools. One of the goals of the ‘Ohjauksella onnistumisiin’ project is to develop an operating model for cultural instruction and related practices for general upper secondary education in Espoo. Read more on the projects website.