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Audiovisual culture in Finland Audiovisual culture comprises films, television and radio programs, digital games, music videos and video art. The promotion of audiovisual culture in Finland includes the production, distribution and presentation of...

Ministry of Education and Culture Minister of Youth, Sport and Physical Activity Mika Poutala Christian Democrats in Finland Minister of Youth, Sport and Physical Activity Poutala is responsible for matters covered by the Department of Youth and S...

16.2.2026 | Minister of Youth, Sport and Physical Activity Mika Poutala will visit the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics between 17 and 22 February.

12.11.2025 | The Sports Ministers of 33 countries and the European Commission have expressed their grave concern about the decision of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) in September to discontinue the partial suspensions of the National Paralympic Committees of Belarus and Russia from the Paralympic Games.

The subgroups for copyright infrastructure meet in different configurations including workshops to discuss topical issues related to practices on identifiers in the creative field, metadata, technology and infrastructure development, and legal issues linked to data and IP. A draft roadmap has been developed during year 2021. In 2022 focus on NFT's, data protection and EDICs (European Digital Infrastructure Consortium).

10.6.2025 | The growth of the creative industries and the creative economy is based on companies in the sector, their growth and internationalisation. Compared to its reference countries, such as Sweden, Finland has so far not really known how to make use of immaterial value creation. The creative industries still have a considerable amount of untapped potential for economic growth in Finland.

11.3.2025 | Sandra Bergqvist, Minister of Youth, Sport and Physical Activity will be travelling with the Finnish Paralympic Committee to Italy and visit the Special Olympics World Winter Games for athletes with disabilities between 12 and 14 March 2025.

15.12.2022 | More than 164,000 primary and lower secondary schoolchildren from 1,500 schools took part in the Ministry of Education and Culture’s national student survey. They were asked what extra-curricular activities they would like to try out and what their main reasons for engaging in leisure activities were. More children and young people (85%) now have a meaningful leisure activity than was the case in the 2020 survey.

26.8.2024 | Sandra Bergqvist, Minister of Youth, Sport and Physical Activity, will attend the Paralympics in Paris from 28 to 30 August, and Sari Multala, Minister of Science and Culture, will be there from 5 to 6 September. The ministers will follow various sports that Finnish Paralympic athletes will be competing in, such as para archery, wheelchair sprint events and para equestrian.

6.3.2024 | Ministry of Education and Culture | Media Literacy and Education in Finland | 3/2024 Media Literacy and Education in Finland Media shapes our perception of the world. Newspapers, private and state-funded TV channels as well as different websites, ...

17.12.2020 | A record number of 197,040 children and young people took part in the pupil and student survey conducted by the Ministry of Education and Culture. This is a significant achievement for an online survey both by national and international standards. More than one third of pupils and students in primary and lower secondary education participated in the survey (35 per cent of all pupils and student...

14.5.2024 | The Finnish Heritage Agency and its partners have produced a 3D model of Petäjävesi Old Church to help preserve valuable information of this cultural heritage site for future generations. Accurate measurement data will also help those planning the restoration and repairs of the church.

1.11.2022 | President of the International Olympic Committee Dear Mr Bach, We, the like-minded ministers of the Member States of the European Union responsible for the sports agenda, are concerned by the deteriorating situation in Ukraine caused by the ongoin...

Central government funding for youth work The Ministry of Education and Culture funds youth work from the proceeds of gaming activities and budget funding. Appropriations and budget items in the youth sector in Youth work has been allocated EUR 71...

20.7.2021 | Minister of Science and Culture Antti Kurvinen will visit the Tokyo Summer Olympics on 23–27 July 2021. During his visit, Minister Kurvinen will attend the opening of the Olympic Games and show his support for Finland’s athletes. He will also meet with Japanese partners to discuss issues related to education, research and innovation.

27.1.2021 | The EU Ministers responsible for Sports submitted a letter to Commissioner Mariya Gabriel in order to secure human rights in sport and major sporting events, both within and outside of the European Union. The ministers wished to reiterate the message of the statement made by the EU sport ministers in 2013 where all states that participate in organising major sporting events, such as the Olympic Gam...

3.12.2019 | China-Finland Year of Winter Sports Closing Ceremony took place at Lappi Areena in Rovaniemi on 3 December 2019. Minister of Science and Culture Hanna Kosonen and Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan took part in the celebrations.

26.2.2021 | A study on the effects of diminished proceeds from gambling activities has been completed. The study examines four options for developing the Finnish gambling system. The working group sets as its primary option a comprehensive overhaul that would place gambling proceeds within the scope of universal coverage in central government revenue and existing beneficiaries would be under the spending limits procedure. The report was published on 26 February.

11.11.2019 | Minister of Education Li Andersson will attend the General Conference of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on 13–14 November 2019 in Paris. Minister of Science and Culture Hanna Kosonen will attend a forum of culture ministers held in conjunction with the General Conference on 19 November.

4.6.2018 | According to Minister for Sport Sampo Terho, Finland should be developed into a leading country in e-sports. Minister Terho hosted a round table discussion on e-sports today, and he wishes that the discussion would not only contribute to the development of e-sports but also give e-sports more visibility.

26.11.2019 | The data economy is one of the strategic focus areas during the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU. The High-Level Conference on Data Economy, which saw more than 300 participants come together at Finlandia Hall, just finished today with the introduction of data principles for the growth of the European data economy. The creative sectors were also invited to discuss the topic “New reve...

26.1.2017 | Memorandum of Understanding between The Ministry of Culture, the People's Republic of China and The Ministry of Education and Culture, the Republic of Finland on Cultural Exchange and Cooperation in 2015 In order to further strengthen the friendly...

12.8.2016 | Finland House in Rio offers an opportunity to get familiar with the success story of Finnish education

10.1.2019 | The year 2019 was designated as the China Finland Year of Winter Sports at the meeting of the Finnish and Chinese presidents in spring 2017. Finland is the first country with which China has agreed on this type of winter sports partnership. The thematic year and the preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing are expected to boost Chinese interest in Finnish winter sports expertise.

10.2.2017 | Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland | Promotion of audiovisual culture | 12/2016 Promotion of audiovisual culture The audiovisual culture consists of films in various genres, television and radio programmes, music videos, video art, and dig...

23.11.2017 | The Ministry of Education and Culture has decided to enter 52 elements in the National Inventory of Living Heritage. The National Inventory will be supplemented at regular intervals, and it will be opened for new proposals in 2019 at the earliest. It is later possible for the elements listed in the National Inventory of Living Heritage to be nominated for inscription on UNESCO’s international lists of intangible cultural heritage.

3.2.2016 | Finna.fi, a service combining material from Finnish archives, libraries and museums, publishes its open application programming interface at api.finna.fi. Finna.fi combines material from a number of different organisations and includes photographs, works of art, books, magazines, articles, maps, objects, sound recordings, sheet music, video and more. Through the API, anyone can access the metadata for almost 9 million entries in the Finna.fi service.

4.10.2016 | Ambassador for Education Export Marianne Huusko faces a challenging task: how to turn Finland’s strongest international brand into a thriving business.

20.11.2013 | Krista Kiuru?s, Minister of Education and Science, first stops in the Team Finland tour of East Asia to promote the export of Finnish education expertise were in Tokyo and Beijing.

18.9.2012 | Opportunities for apps developers, designers and other digital innovators will be boosted as the digital portal Europeana opens up its dataset of over 20 million cultural objects for free re-use.

16.5.2013 | UNESCO?s Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage will enter into force in Finland on 21 May 2013. The Convention has been ratified by 152 nations to date. Finland was the last of the Nordic countries to join.

18.11.2008 | The Ministry of Education launched talks last august in order to promote electronic commerce in creative contents and to reduce illicit file sharing over the internet. The parties to these branch talks represented the film, music and games industries, internet service providers, content business companies, and authorities.

28.1.2025 | More than 112,000 primary and lower secondary schoolchildren from 1,300 schools took part in the Ministry of Education and Culture’s national student survey. According to the survey, 85% of schoolchildren have a hobby they enjoy. 19% of lower secondary school students lack a hobby, even though lower secondary school students showed a great deal of interest in different leisure activities. They indicated an interest in trying out 11 leisure activities.

Tekijänoikeusinfran pienryhmät kokoontuvat eri kokoonpanoissa ml. työpajoissa keskustelemaan luovien alojen teos- ja tekijätietokäytäntöihin, metadataan, teknologiaan ja infrastruktuurien kehittämiseen liittyen sekä IP-oikeuksien ja datan kysymyksistä. Tiekartta 2021; NFT't ja tietosuoja; 2022: EDIC (European Digital Infrastructure Consortium) 2023

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15.12.2017 | MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE - FINLAND 12 October 2017 NATIONAL YOUTH WORK AND YOUTH POLICY PROGRAMME 2017–2019 Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................

9.4.2025 | Seuratoiminnan kehittämistuki 2025 myönnöt HUOM! Tämä on myöntölista, josta ilmenee avustusta saaneet hakijat. Avustus maksetaan seuran tilille lähiviikkoina. Huomioitavaksi myös, että kaikki hakijat (joita oli 518) saavat päätöksen lähiviikkoina....

3.5.2024 | On 3 May, the Ministry of Education and Culture published the 2024 Bildung Review, which compiles statistical and other information on the administrative branch of the Ministry, its development and situation in international comparison. The themes for 2024 are regionality, life cycle and the fields of education and culture. The objective of the annually published review is to create an overall picture of the extensive administrative branch as a whole.

11.11.2019 | Undervisningsminister Li Andersson deltar i FN: s organisation för utbildning, vetenskap och kultur Unescos generalförsamling i Paris den 13 –14 november 2019. Forsknings - och kulturminister Hanna Kosonen deltar i kulturministrarnas forum i anslutning till generalförsamlingen den 19 november.

20.6.2018 | TEKIJÄNOIKEUSNEUVOSTO LAUSUNTO 2018:4 Asia Kaunokirjallisen teoksen lainaaminen laulun sanoituksessa Hakija G Annettu 22.5.2018 Tiivistelmä Romaanista oli laulun sanoitukseen lainattu ote tekstistä. Sitee- rattu osuus muodosti liian laajan osuuden...