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24.2.2026 | Valtioneuvoston periaatepäätös valtion kotouttamisohjelmasta Statsrådets principbeslut om statens program för integrationsfrämjande Hallituksen painopisteet vuosille 2012–2015 Regeringens prioriteringar för 2012–2015 Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriön j...

24.2.2026 | Valtion kotouttamisohjelma Hallituksen painopisteet vuosille 2012–2015 Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriön julkaisuja Konserni 27/2012 Valtion kotouttamisohjelma Hallituksen painopisteet vuosille 2012–2015 Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriön julkaisuja Konserni...

24.10.2024 | The new Integration Act, which will enter into force at the beginning of 2025, will be supplemented by decrees. The Government’s integration policy is based on language learning, work, familiarisation with Finnish society and compliance with its rules.

Energy labelling The aim of energy labelling is to provide consumers with information that enables them to choose energy efficient products. An energy label is attached to products for which product-group specific energy labelling regulations have...

Aim of the Act on the Promotion of Immigrant Integration is to ensure equality The purpose of the Integration Act is to support and promote integration and make it easier for immigrants to play an active role in Finnish society. Another purpose of...

International students can create innovations and bring growth to Finland The number of international higher education students in Finland has grown in recent years. They support the internationalisation of Finnish education and research. Students...

22.1.2026 | Effective and proactive action is needed to address the exploitation of foreign workers. The Government is continuing its efforts to combat labour exploitation with a legislative project that will examine and prepare the necessary amendments to residence permit procedures.

31.12.2025 | Analysis of external factors for the Strategy of the Regional State Administrative Agencies and ELY Centres 2024–2027 Premise of this strategy The strategy draws on the external factors, i.e. the operating environment, giving rise to the key pheno...

13.11.2025 | International higher education students could play an even bigger role in driving Finland’s growth. Minister of Employment Matias Marttinen and Minister of Science and Culture Mari-Leena Talvitie invited businesses, cities, higher education institutions and students to find solutions to improve international students’ employment prospects in Finland.

13.10.2021 | The 2021 Democracy Recognition was granted to the task force on multilingual and multichannel COVID-19 communications, which the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) started in March 2020. The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment (MEAE) has been working in the task force to develop COVID-19 communications so that correct information reach everyone who lives in Finland as extensively and effectively as possible. 

24.2.2026 | Government Resolution on the Government Integration Programme The Government’s focus areas for 2012–2015 Publications of the Ministry of Employment and the Economy Concern 34/2012 Government Resolution on the Government Integration Programme The G...

18.12.2024 | The comprehensive reform of the Integration Act (KOTO24) aims to speed up the integration and employment of immigrants and to strengthen their knowledge of Finnish society. The reform is related to the T24 reform where employment and economic development services are transferred from the central government to municipalities.

29.9.2023 | The inclusive Startup Refugees entrepreneurship programme supports asylum seekers, refugees and other immigrants in the path towards work, entrepreneurship and skills development. The Finnish programme will compete in the finals of the Awards, which will be announced in November 2023.

15.11.2023 | Finland’s Startup Refugees has won the Responsible and Inclusive Entrepreneurship category in the European Enterprise Promotion Awards. The results of the competition were announced in Bilbao on 14 November. The inclusive activities of Startup Refugees support asylum seekers, refugees and other immigrants in finding employment, starting a business and developing skills.

21.6.2023 | The winners of the Finnish competition for the European Enterprise Promotion Award are the Business Lande project, which promotes entrepreneurship among young people in rural areas, and the Startup Refugees entrepreneurship programme, which supports asylum seekers, refugees and other immigrants in the path towards work, entrepreneurship and skills development.

1.9.2025 | No. 189 REPORT Article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation Report for the period 1 June 2018 to 31 May 2025 made by the Government of Finland on the DOMESTIC WORKERS CONVENTION, 2011 (No. 189) (ratification registered o...

1.7.2024 | The new Integration Act, which will enter into force at the beginning of 2025, will be supplemented by five decrees on integration services. The aim is to increase the immigrants’ own responsibility and strengthen the general government finances in accordance with the Government Programme.

25.1.2024 | As of 2025, municipalities will be required to offer multilingual civic orientation to integration clients. A report commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment in May 2023 includes recommendations on how to implement the orientation in a high-quality and uniform manner across Finland.

13.4.2023 | The comprehensive reform of the Integration Act, which will enter into force in 2025, will improve integration and strengthen the inclusion of immigrants in society. The reform will facilitate the path of immigrants towards employment and improve the access of immigrant women and others outside the labour force to services.

6.10.2022 | The Government’s proposal to comprehensively reform the Act on the Promotion of Immigrant Integration (hereinafter, the Integration Act) aims to strengthen the inclusion of immigrants in society and to make the promotion of integration more efficient. Another goal is to increase equality and wellbeing and advance good relations between population groups. The reform seeks to facilitate the path of immigra...