We want to see Finland as a leader in education, skills and modern learning in the long term. The Ministry of Education and Culture’s Road Map for Higher Education and Research 2025 has identified education exports as one of the key development areas whose potential is to be exploited as an enabler of the added value of national competence development and education. The net sales of educational exports in Finland in 2014 were EUR 260 million. The objective of the Government Programme has been to increase net sales to EUR 350 million by the end of 2018. The Director General of the Finnish National Board of Education has even more than tripled this goal in public statements. In Joensuu and North Karelia, a new type of active cluster model, Global Education Park Finland (or more briefly EduPark), has been created, involving all the key actors in the region, from early childhood education to university and companies in the region. The network of public and private operators has already been formed in an earlier project and is unique in international terms, as no similar consortia have been found. The opportunities offered jointly by EduPark’s actors in the construction of training packages have attracted international interest. In the future, cooperation between education and research institutes and enterprises will be used more to the mutual benefit of the region and all the actors involved, by developing an existing network into an innovation ecosystem that enables clear commercialisation of know-how and increased sales of training. The shared vision of education and learning environments will create new business, businesses and jobs. The measures of the project include:1. Building, developing and making visible the operating model of EduPark innovation economists2. Strengthening the competence and business know-how of the education business in the enterprises and training centres in the region, and3. Building and increasing international education business and salesStaying the full potential of international contacts, finding a market fit for the skills profiles of operators in the region and getting to a well-established business requires time and joint work, and that is exactly what the project is looking for. In addition, the region lacks information on the international funding channels for educational exports and sales and the associated opportunities that will be addressed during the project. In addition, the project responds to the need to connect to the Knowledge Finland network, which is emerging in Finland, and to the Educational Tourism section of the Visit Finland network. The project also responds to the need for national networking in situations where global tenders or training needs are so large that an individual company, educational institution or locality is unable to respond to it. Joensuu and North Karelia are not yet very visible in the national or international debate on education, skills or education business. Raising awareness is essential in order to increase the business opportunities of the various actors. The project also responds to this need.