Digital services for continuous learning programme

Goals and results

The objectives of the Digital services for continuous learning programme are:
• enabling and accelerating the reform of the education system and employment services by building an interoperable and integrated digital operating environment and new services which make up bundles/service chains striving to meet the customer's needs optimally,
• developing education search services that provide broad, flexible and timely access to education and training at national level,
• providing information on education and the labour market for individuals and supporting their decision-making,
• developing comprehensive national services for digital competence identification as well as guidance and career planning services for persons who need to improve their competence, educational organisations and providers of career guidance services,
• developing solutions which make it easy for the learner to put together a bundle that meets their needs from the educational offerings at different levels of education and in which data concerning the learner can be used.

The Digital services for continuous learning programme has two components:
1. Digital service bundle for continuous learning (2021–2025) is a joint project of the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. The core objective of the project is to build digital services to support individuals in making educational and career choices and maintaining and developing their competence throughout their careers and lives, as well as to promote a better match between work, competence, and demand and supply of education.
2. Digivision 2030 is a joint project involving all Finnish higher education institutions. Its aim is to create a future for learning that benefits HEIs, learners and Finnish society. The objective of the project is to enable flexible learning and accumulation of competence for learners, to strengthen the teacher's role as a producer of high-quality content, to guarantee better quality in higher education, and to promote the employment of Finnish people.

Summary

The Digital services for continuous learning programme (2021–2025) consists of:
1. a digital service bundle for continuous learning that covers the entire education system and crosses administrative boundaries, and
2. a digitalisation and flexible learning package for higher education that covers all higher education institutions (Digivision 2030).

Starting points

Digitalisation will be a key driver of change in the future and a resource for finding solutions. It will affect the skills and competence requirements in working life and ways of updating competence in step with changes in the operating environment. What is needed is an extensive digitalisation programme, within the framework of which operating models, digital services and data resources that support continuous learning can be built.

The Digital services for continuous learning programme has been prepared as part of Finland's Recovery and Resilience Plan, which is included in the Sustainable Growth Programme for Finland. The Digital services programme is financed under the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).

The programme is underpinned by the Parliamentary reform of continuous learning prepared in the previous parliamentary term, the implementation of which will continue during Prime Minister Orpo's government term (2023–2027). The objectives of the Digital services programme support structural change of the economy and labour market transformation in keeping with Prime Minister Orpo's Government Programme, especially with regard to labour force and skills mismatch problems, technological and digitalisation capabilities of the public sector, and national reform projects.

The Digital services for continuous learning programme is a cooperation project of the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment (incl. the Finnish National Agency for Education and the Development and Administration Centre of the Centres for Economic Development) and higher education institutions. The measures will be promoted relying on strong stakeholder cooperation.

Additional information

• Jatkuvan oppimisen digitaalinen palvelukokonaisuus
• Digivisio 2030