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12.5.2026 | Satakunta Museum is digitising its prehistoric collections into three-dimensional format as part of the European Twin it! campaign. The project, funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture, aims to improve access to cultural heritage by presenting historical objects to a wider audience, and by supporting education and research through digital solutions.https://okm.fi/en/-/satakunta-museum-showcases-3d-models-of-prehistoric-artefacts-for-educational-use
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14.1.2026 | The Ministry of Education and Culture carried out a two-year pre-primary education trial in a total of 148 municipalities between 2021 and 2024. Altogether 37,357 children took part. They were placed in the trial group and control group by drawing lots. Parents, carers and teachers were satisfied with the trial and the two-year pre-primary education trial slightly increased the participation rate of five-year-olds.https://okm.fi/en/-/results-of-two-year-pre-primary-education-trial-published
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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.https://okm.fi/en/-/student-survey-students-want-versatile-exercise-and-art-try-outs-these-will-soon-be-possible-in-lower-secondary-schools
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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, ...https://okm.fi/documents/1410845/204781055/Media+Literacy+in+Finland.pdf/a6b4760b-d36e-e218-bf95-6b8b8c40eea3?t=1709717603636
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10.6.2026 | The Eurostudent 9 student survey 2025 examines the social conditions of Finnish higher education students, including their sources of income, progress in studies, employment, international mobility and plans for the future.https://okm.fi/en/-/eurostudent-survey-provides-insight-into-the-everyday-life-and-future-expectations-of-higher-education-students
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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...https://okm.fi/en/-/1410877/key-aim-of-the-integration-act-reform-is-to-speed-up-integration-and-employment-of-immigrants-
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8.6.2026 | Minister of Science and Culture Mari-Leena Talvitie has presented seven State Awards for Public Information in acknowledgment of the dissemination of significant public information. The award ceremony will be celebrated on 8 June in Oulu, which is a European Capital of Culture this year.https://okm.fi/en/-/state-award-for-public-information-conferred-to-seven-contributors-to-community-relevant-information
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Strengthening the basic skills and language of instruction of pupils with a migrant background The aim is to ensure that pupils who have recently moved to Finland have the capabilities to pursue further studies. The action plan will look for solut...https://okm.fi/en/strengthening-the-basic-skills-and-language-of-instruction-of-pupils-with-a-migrant-background
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Partnerships between Finnish and Latin American higher education institutions (HEIs) have been growing significantly in recent years. Latin America has been the most popular partner region for Finnish HEIs in both Erasmus+ programme and the Finnish National Agency for Education's Team Finland Knowledge programme.https://okm.fi/tapahtumat/2026-03-12/focus-on-latin-america-finnish-higher-education-institutions-partnerships-with-the-lac-region
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8.11.2021 | Ministry of Education and Culture/1 November 2021 Ministry of Education and Culture Privacy Notice to Data Subjects Personal data to be processed in the follow-up and assessment of the two-year pre-primary education trial 1 General information Thi...https://okm.fi/documents/1410845/60112921/1.11.+EN+OKM_Tietosuojailmoitus_2v+esiopetus_seuranta+ja+arviointi.pdf/c07d2f9d-7d9c-1c1c-81e8-a05771900aba?t=1636364369956
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Museum policy programme The Ministry of Education and Culture is responsible for culture policy and, as part of this, the implementation of museum and cultural heritage policy. The Ministry's goal is to promote the development of requirements for ...https://okm.fi/en/museum-policy
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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).https://okm.fi/en/project?tunnus=OKM020:00/2020
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United States and Canada – Los Angeles The Team Finland Knowledge specialist in Los Angeles covers the western United States and Canada. California, where the specialist is based, has a strong focus on innovation. Work in the region must encompass...https://okm.fi/en/los-angeles-en
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United States – Washington, D.C. The Team Finland Knowledge specialist in Washington, D.C. follows US science and higher education policy, builds connections that serve the Finnish research community and acts as a link between research administrat...https://okm.fi/en/washington-dc
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Culture for children Arts and cultural education fosters creativity, open-mindedness and optimism, which are essential for social progress. It also strengthens children's and young people's ability to see the world from the perspective of others. ...https://okm.fi/en/culture-for-children
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In accordance with Prime Minister Orpo’s Government Programme (2023), the Government will reform the legislation on basic education in the arts. The aim is to make access to teaching smoother, taking into account different fields of art.https://okm.fi/en/project?tunnus=OKM017:00/2024
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China – Beijing Team Finland Knowledge's key aim in Beijing is to provide higher education institutions and the wider education sector with considered and up-to-date information on developments in China's education and science policy. Cooperation ...https://okm.fi/en/beijing
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Pupil and student welfare Pupils in pre-primary, primary and lower secondary school as well as students in upper secondary school have the right to pupil and student welfare services (also known as student welfare). It consists of student welfare ...https://okm.fi/en/pupil-and-student-welfare
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The Copyright infrastructure on national, EU and global level promotes proper functioning of the copyright system in the form an open rights data framework (ORDF) for new technologies. This webpage is dedicated for the national level AI- subgroups and on EU-level the Copyright Infrastructure Task Force (CITF). See also: https://okm.fi/en/citf-enhttps://okm.fi/en/project?tunnus=OKM024:00/2024
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Financing of libraries Municipalities are responsible for organising the public library services. Public library services are financed by the municipalities and the state together. The state finances library services by allocating central governme...https://okm.fi/en/financing-libraries