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Competence Center KEINO’s main objectives for 2018–2021 are: •Increase sustainable and innovative public procurement in Finland. •Promote recognition for and active use of public procurement as a strategic tool. •Help contracting entities to openly share information about their own experiences and learn from one another. KEINO is a network-based consortium.https://tem.fi/en/project?tunnus=TEM069:00/2018
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Improving and maintaining employees’ competence Study leave An employer may take study leave to participate in studies subject to public supervision in Finland or abroad. All employees are entitled to study leave when the full-time employment rela...https://tem.fi/en/improving-and-maintaining-employees-competence
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Network-based competence centre for sustainable and innovative public procurement (KEINO) KEINO was a network-based competence centre for sustainable and innovative public procurement that brought together and builded networks between public procu...https://tem.fi/en/keino-en
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Finland needs new growth and new prosperity. Cities are the growth engines of the national economy. At the same time, cities are also an integral part of regional development and they interact with the larger economic areas surrounding them.https://tem.fi/en/urban-development
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Regional development priorities The Government decides on the national regional development priorities for each government term (regional development decision). The regional development decision guides the development of the different administrati...https://tem.fi/en/regional-development-priorities
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Development of working life is a joint process Technological change and globalisation, various crises, demographic structure and climate change speed up the transformation of working life. A good, productive and ecologically sustainable working li...https://tem.fi/en/working-life-development
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Regional Development Guidelines 2040 Cover page of publication: Regional Development Guidelines 2040. Regional development affects the vitality of regions in the long term. Anticipation is needed to plan long-term work. The Regional Development Gu...https://tem.fi/en/regional-development-guidelines-2040
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National development projects for lifelong guidance (RRF 2022–2024) To boost sustainable growth, the employment rate and skills level must rise. For this purpose, several development projects were launched at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and E...https://tem.fi/en/national-development-projects-for-lifelong-guidance
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In the monitoring of regional development extensive use is made of both national and international statistics and research. Regional research and foresight information is also produced and extensively used in regional councils and ELY Centres.https://tem.fi/en/monitoring-and-forecasting-regional-development
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National Working Life Development Strategy – Towards the working life of 2035 The working life Development Strategy responds to the need to increase productivity and wellbeing at work. The quality of working life is an important factor in employme...https://tem.fi/en/working-life-development-strategy
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Identifying the skills of working-age people Identifying skills means that a person is able to recognise, verbalise and make visible the competence they have acquired in different ways, both for themselves and for the society around them. The abil...https://tem.fi/en/identifying-the-competence
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Nuclear Waste Management Fund ensures funding and sufficient competence for waste management The purpose of the National Nuclear Waste Management Fund is to ensure that the society has sufficient funds and competence to arrange nuclear waste manag...https://tem.fi/en/nuclear-waste-management-fund
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25.6.2026 | EU energy ministers will meet in Luxembourg on 26 June 2026. The main item on the agenda of the meeting of the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council is to reach a general approach on the development of trans-European networks for energy. The ministers will also discuss the planning of post-2030 energy policy, as well as coordination and response measures to the energy impacts of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.https://tem.fi/en/-/eu-energy-ministers-seek-agreement-on-the-european-grids-package
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Studies and pilots on identification of skills In its interim report, the working group on identifying skills proposed studies and pilots aiming to find new ways to promote practices and tools for identifying skills acquired outside degree program...https://tem.fi/en/studies-and-pilots-on-identification-of-competences
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Innovative cities and corporations as builders of ecosystems The aim is to create internationally attractive and growth-generating innovation environments in Finland by 2030. This includes concluding ecosystem agreements between the central govern...https://tem.fi/en/innovative-cities-and-corporations
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Public employment services for businesses and organisations Employment services offer help to employers and entrepreneurs on recruitment and competence development of staff, changing situations and the beginning of entrepreneurship. Tailored servi...https://tem.fi/en/public-employment-services-for-businesses-and-organisations
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Other funding targets under the Sustainable Growth Programme in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment and government agencies under its purview The Sustainable Growth Programme includes investments and reforms that support the European U...https://tem.fi/en/other-funding-targets-under-the-sustainable-growth-programme
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Continuous learning Continuous learning refers to learning that spans across people’s whole lives and covers different areas of life. The reform of continuous learning seeks to respond to the skills needs arising from changes in the world of work,...https://tem.fi/en/continuous-learning
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Finland's Strategy for the Arctic region Finland’s new Strategy for the Arctic Region, which was completed in 2021, sets out the objectives for Finland’s Arctic policy and activities until 2030. Competence in both business and research is one of t...https://tem.fi/en/finlands-strategy-for-the-arctic-region
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Labour Force Barometer The Labour Force Barometer aims to produce high-quality and comprehensive short-term information on labour and competence needs for different operators. Previously, information on labour needs has been published in the Occup...https://tem.fi/en/labour-force-barometer
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Ecosystem agreements The central government has concluded long-term agreements with university cities regarding the strategic allocation of public and private RDI funding to strengthen globally competitive ecosystems. The agreements will strengthe...https://tem.fi/en/ecosystem-agreements
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Integration of immigrants is a joint effort Integration of immigrants requires close cooperation between administrative branches and levels of administration at national, regional and local level. Both the public sector and civil society actors ar...https://tem.fi/en/administration-of-integration-and-the-actors-involved
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The European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) objective supports cross-border cooperation between EU Member States at trans-national and interregional level. A total of 10.1 billion euros has been allocated to the ETC objective from the European Regional Development Fund in the period 2014 - 2020.https://tem.fi/en/european-territorial-cooperation-objective
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Innovative public procurement as an innovation policy instrument The value of public procurement in Finland is approximately EUR 47 billion annually, with municipalities and joint municipal authorities accounting for two thirds, and the central go...https://tem.fi/en/innovative-public-procurement
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EU industrial policy Industrial policy is an umbrella concept that brings together measures from several policy areas. In a broader sense, industrial policy includes measures that create the conditions for business operations, such as a well-funct...https://tem.fi/en/eu-industrial-policy
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Current projects The ministry's websites for ongoing projects. All ongoing projects, working groups, advisory boards and committees in the Ministry Government's labour market reforms » The Government will develop the Finnish labour market to make ...https://tem.fi/en/other-development-projects
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The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) helps people who have lost or are at risk of losing their jobs because of sudden and major economic changes. Such changes can be caus...https://tem.fi/en/european-globalisation-adjustment-fund
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Innovation policy evaluation The impact and effectiveness of research, development and innovation (RDI) funding and other innovation policy measures on companies and society as a whole are assessed from different perspectives and through different...https://tem.fi/en/innovation-policy-evaluation
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The rapporteurs Jukka Ahtela and Joel Salminen should submit the report by 8th January 2021 to the sub-group on local collective bargaining working under the Ministerial Working Group on Promotion of Employment.The report will be made public on 1st March 2021 with other relevant materials.https://tem.fi/en/project?tunnus=TEM119:00/2020
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There are 15 Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment in Finland. Together with the six Regional State Administrative Agencies they function as the country’s regional state administrative authorities.https://tem.fi/en/ely-centres
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What is innovation-friendly regulation? Innovation-friendly regulation is flexible, technology neutral and goal-oriented predictable and conducive to clarity supportive of competition and market dynamics appropriate and proportionate harmonised an...https://tem.fi/en/what-is-innovation-friendly-regulation
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Cooperation in the EU and at other international forums The EU and international activities of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment aim to promote sustainable growth and strategic competitiveness by: promoting business and employment gr...https://tem.fi/en/cooperation-in-the-eu-and-at-other-international-forums
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Working life The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment will create conditions for sustainable growth. Sustainable growth is created by skilled miracles in high quality jobs and successful companies, productivity and growing labour responsibi...https://tem.fi/en/working-life
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Labour migration services Work in Finland, formed by Business Finland and the Development and Administrative Services Centre (KEHA Centre), provides a national structure and services to promote international recruitment by employers. The services ...https://tem.fi/en/labour-migration-services
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Innovation policy promotes growth and renews the operating environment Finland’s competitiveness and success in the global market are based on skills, new knowledge and innovations. Research, development and innovation activities (RDI) play an ess...https://tem.fi/en/innovation-policy
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Employment Employment has a central role in economic growth, people’s well-being and the sustainability of the public economy. Well-functioning labour markets and Finland’s good position in the international division of work and competition will s...https://tem.fi/en/employment
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Space offers new opportunities Finnish space expertise comprises cutting-edge space and atmospheric research, and competence in electronics and software used in space components. Finnish companies and research organisations have participated in th...https://tem.fi/en/space
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Social entrepreneurship The social economy is part of the national economy and industrial and business activity. It refers to operators that provide goods or services to their members or society. What is common to these operators is their emphasis...https://tem.fi/en/social-entrepreneurship
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2.6.2026 | The National Working Life Development Strategy to 2035 has been completed. The strategy aims to accelerate Finland’s economic growth by modernising the world of work so that Finnish workplaces become more innovative, more productive and better places to work. The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, and the Ministry of Education and Culture published the strategy and an accompanying implementation roadmap on 2 June 2026.https://tem.fi/en/-/growth-from-people-s-ideas-courage-to-renew-and-cooperation-nearly-eur-4-million-funding-call-launched-to-develop-work-in-finland
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Questions and answers about joint services for young people Note! The project has ended and the content of this page will no longer be updated. Is the employment authority obliged to organise joint services for young people? Should the employment ...https://tem.fi/en/questions-and-answers-about-joint-services-for-young-people