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15.4.2026 | Riikka Pellinen, PhD., has been appointed as an expert in higher education and science policy at the Embassy of Finland in Seoul. Her three-year term begins on 1 August 2026. With this appointment, the Team Finland Knowledge network’s geographical scope is extended to South Korea.

International Agreements and Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) Finland has cooperation agreements, programmes and Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with over 50 countries. The agreements are bilateral treaties covering all the Ministry's fields ...

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.

21.2.2023 | In their statement published on 20 February, the ministers of sport from 34 countries state that the International Olympic Committee should not change its decision of 28 February 2022 concerning the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in international sports. According to the ministers, the situation in Ukraine has deteriorated over the past year.

4.5.2023 | Ministers of sport from 36 countries have issued a fourth collective statement on the exclusion of Russia and Belarus from international sports.

13.8.2019 | Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Finland and the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea on Cooperation in the Field of Primary and Secondary Education The Ministry of Education an...

7.2.2017 | Finnish students again among top- performers in the OECD Finland is the second best OECD country in PISA reading literacy assessment. however, Finnish students’ mean score in reading literacy has decreased slightly from the PISA 2000 assessment. A...

21.1.2022 | 14.12.2021 Updated National Roadmap for Research, Development and Innovation INTRODUCTION RDI roadmap and its objectives The National Roadmap for Research, Development and Innovation, adopted by the Government in spring 2020, consists of a set of ...

21.11.2017 | Differences between schools and impact of family background were the smallest in collaborative problem-solving in Finland. 1. S in g a p o r e 2. J a pa n 3. H o n g K o n g ( c h in a ) 4 . K o r e a 5 . c a n a d a 6 . e st o n ia 7. f in la n d...

27.2.2019 | As the first ever Nordic country, Finland will host the International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) on 14 and 15 March 2019. ISTP brings together countries with the best performing or rapidly improving education systems as measured by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).

13.9.2005 | The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published its annual comparison report Education at a Glance 2005 on Tuesday. The report compares the education systems of 30 OECD countries and a few non-OECD countries. The report is for the most part based on the information from 2003.

18.9.2007 | The latest edition of Education at a Glance, an annual indicator report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), was published on Tuesday 18 September. The report shows that Finns in the age group 15–19 are actively taking part in education. About 90 per cent of the age group studies full-time or part-time.