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  • Welcome to Design for Government!

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    In this section you will find some general information about the course, including ZOOM LINK to all our online contact teaching sessions. We hope this information can help you to plan your work throughout the course and to support you for a better learning experience. 

    Course arrangements & key dates

    - This course happens over two periods: Period IV and V, over a total of 12 weeks.
    - Contact teaching will happen every Monday from 1st March until 24th May, except on 5th April (Easter Monday) and 12th April (Period break).
    - Contact teaching will happen online, using Zoom.
    – Independent group work activities (assignments) are scheduled during contact teaching and outside contact teaching hours, that students will have to arrange with their own teams. Where possible, and following the Covid-19 safety regulations at the time, we encourage you to conduct group work on-site with your team mates. Likewise, independent project work (assignments) could be arranged to happen on-site. 

    Contact teaching on Mondays will follow this structure:
    09.15 - 12.00 Lecture (online) 
    12.00 - 13.15 Lunch break / Mobilise for on-site team meeting (if possible, as described above)
    13.15 - 15.30 Independent group assignment (offline / on-site, with your team) 
    15.30 - 17.00 Group Tutorial (30 min. slot) (online)

    Workload overview:

    The course is 10 ECTS. This equals 270 total hours of work, or 19.2 hours per week, which is roughly 3 full working days per week. 

    Activities have been distributed week-by-week to consider a balance in the workload. Please check the overview of the week by week activities below to help you plan your time ahead.      Note that there are certain weeks that are more demanding than others. Specially on Period IV the group work is more intense on Weeks 2-4,  due to arranging and conducting fieldwork. In contrast, in Period V the intensity on group work will decrease. 


    Period V week-by-week activities:
    Period V

    Period IV week-by-week activities:
    Period IV Overview


    Teaching team: 

    Núria Solsona Caba nuria.solsona@aalto.fi
    Tessa Dean tessa.dean@aalto.fi 
    Taneli Heinonen mail@taneliheinonen.com
    Anni Leppänen anni.leppanen@hel.fi 


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      Zoom link for DfG open lectures URL

      Link to the open lectures for DfG 2021.
      Upon joining, please give yourself a name that includes your First and Last name in that order.

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      Meeting ID: 671 5407 6820
      Passcode: DfG2021

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      Zoom link for DfG Contact teaching URL
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      Zoom link for Anni's tutorials (Group 1A, 1B, 1C) URL

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      Meeting ID: 625 8494 4237
      Passcode: DfGAnni


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      Zoom link for Taneli's tutorials (Group 2A, 2B, 2C) URL

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      Passcode: DfG_Taneli

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      Zoom link for Nuria's tutorials (Group 3A, 3B, 3C) URL

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