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 8773216
tapio.erma@espoo.fi
Youth Service Manager
Merja Nordling
tel. +358 43 8247060
merja.nordling@espoo.fi
Education Planning Chief
Jaakko Turpeinen
tel. +358 46 8773903
jaakko.turpeinen@espoo.fi
Education Planner (on work leave)
Maija Metsola
tel. +358 40 6365086
maija.metsola@espoo.fi
Education Planner
Maria Valkonen
maria.valkonen@espoo.fi
Planner
Susan Tuulosniemi
tel. +358 40 5547381
susan.tuulosniemi@espoo.fi
System coordinator
Alice Ristell
tel. +358 50 3536089
alice.ristell@espoo.fi
Communication Specialist
Maija Ruoho
tel. +358 40 5527782
maija2.ruoho@espoo.fi
Communication Specialist
Katja Mäkelä
tel. +358 43 8252319
katja.makela@espoo.fi
Secretary
Pirjo Rantala
tel. +358 43 8272853
pirjo.c.rantala@espoo.fi
Project Coordinator
Shan Zhu
+358 40 6366287
zhu.shan@espoo.fi
I advise general upper secondary school students, their families, and school staff in Chinese, Finnish, French and English.
Cultural Instructors
Donya Hajali
+358 40 6366297
donya.hajali@espoo.fi
I advise general upper secondary school students, their families, and school staff in Arabic and Finnish.
Cultural Instructors
Elena Junnila
+358 40 6366462
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
+358 40 6366298
hamse.mohamedmuktar@espoo.fi
I advise general upper secondary school students, their families, and school staff in Somali, Finnish 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.