Search

New Literacies Programme The New Literacies Programme aims to strengthen children’s and young people’s media literacy, competence in information and communications technology (ICT), and programming skills in early childhood education and care, pre...

Statistics on higher education and research The Ministry of Education and Culture compiles and uses versatile statistics from numerous sources to further develop higher education. Online statistical data on higher education is available on the web...

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).

Futures work in comprehensive schools The vision work assesses the type of needs that exist for further developing comprehensive schools and the capabilities that education should offer for the future. The work focuses on changes that demand a soc...

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 ...

Ministry of Education and Culture Minister of Science and Culture Mari-Leena Talvitie The National Coalition Party Minister of Science and Culture Talvitie is responsible for matters covered by the Department for Higher Education and Science Polic...

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-en

Science and research Science policy improves the ability of organisations to conduct and support research. Research generates knowledge and skills that benefit many parties in society, among them companies, communities, public organisations and po...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its effects in the administrative branch of the Ministry of Education and Culture On this page, we will update information on the impacts of the situation in the administrative branch of the Ministry of Education a...

Ministry of Education and Culture Minister of Education Anders Adlercreutz The Swedish People's party of Finland Minister of Education Anders Adlercreutz heads the Ministry of Education and Culture. In accordance with the division of responsibilit...

The European Capital of Culture 2026 Based on a recommendation given by a European panel of experts, the Ministry of Education and Culture designated the City of Oulu as a 2026 European Capital of Culture. The other Capital of Culture in 2026 will...

24.3.2026 | Norway’s digital Higher Education Landscape – a Sikt perspective Seminar on Transformation of Higher Education, Digitalization and Organizing Collaboration for HEIs Helsinki 20.03.2026 Maria Kumle, Director of Educational Services Dato Sikt – Norw...

25.3.2026 | Universities Estonia - example of the collaboration of universities (initiated by rectors) Hanna Kanep, Secretary General, Universities Estonia From consortium to centralization and decentralization - short term cost saving in decision making and ...

13.3.2026 | FOCUS ON LATIN AMERICA: Finnish Higher Education Institutions’ Partnerships with the LAC Region Johanna Kivimäki, Counsellor of Higher Education and Science, TFK Network Consulate of Finland in Sao Paulo, Brazil 12 March 2026 Welcome to our event ...

25.3.2026 | AI Competence Framework for Citizens: Materials Language version: English National AI Competence Framework for Citizens • The Ministry of Education and Culture convened a “AI Competence – Researchers’ and Experts’ Roundtable” series to develop a c...

3.3.2026 | AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE AND KARELIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES FOR 2025–2028 1. Common objectives of higher education institutions The Ministry of Education and Culture and the Karelia University of Applied Scie...

The recommendations for artificial intelligence, AI, support competence related to AI in education, teaching and training. Strengthening competence promotes increasing understanding of AI, its safe use and equal opportunities for education and training actors to utilise emerging technologies in learning.

7.1.2026 | 1 Procedural recommendations for developing Finland’s national language reserve 2 Foreword We need an accurate picture of the national language reserve Fewer languages are being studied in school Developing school practices Early childhood educati...

Based on the financial obligation for media service providers enabled by Directive (EU) 2018/1808 on audiovisual media services, a government proposal is being prepared to implement the obligation in Finland.

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).