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Finnish simulated city scheme aims to expand across Europe
For most 12-year-olds, job interviews, paying taxes and drawing up household budgets are a distant prospect.
But a prizewinning project that will be celebrated at an international education summit next week brings those concerns to life for children in Finland: thousands have already visited one of Me and MyCity's purpose-built miniature towns to experience a day in the adult world.
The initiative is one of six winners of the annual World Innovation Summit for Education (Wise) Awards. Each of the projects receives $20,000 (£12,400) and they will be honoured at the Wise Summit in Qatar on 4-6 November, where the winner of this year's $500,000 Wise Prize for Education will also be announced.
The executive director of Me and MyCity, Tomi Alakoski, is also hoping to pitch the idea to the leaders of several European countries...