Finland
Strategies for youth employment
- Strategies for youth employment
- Yes
Youth employment strategy planned in the next 2 years
- Discussions within the government
- No
- Consultations with national-level stakeholders (e.g. employers’ and workers’ associations, youth councils, etc.)
- No
- A draft strategy already exists
- No
- Other (please specify)
- No
Countries with national action plans for youth employment
- Monitoring framework (timeline and activity/outcome indicators, e.g. youth labour market indicators)
- Yes
- Funding (indicative budget to implement the plan)
- Yes
- Institutional responsibilities (e.g. ministries/agencies in charge of specific planned activities )
- Yes
- Other, specify
- No
Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
The National Youth Work and Policy Program (VANUPO) collects main actions taken by each government. The programme is prepared for each government. The funding is mainly based on government budget or separate project funding. The aim of the programme is to improve the conditions young people live and grow in. One of the programme's main goals is to establish the youth policy perspective as part of public sector decision-making. VANUPO will help the effective use of resources from various sectors aimed at improving the conditions in which young people grow and live.Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
Youth is included as a target group in the guidelines for the youth employment policy from the Government programme "Inclusive and competent Finland - a socially, economically and ecologically sustainable society" as follows: "Supporting employment of young people. All young people aged under 25 years of age and all graduates under 30 years of age will be guaranteed a job or work trial, traineeship, workshop, apprenticeship or rehabilitation placement no later than three months into the period of unemployment. The Government will promote the Youth Guarantee based on expert work. Ohjaamo (One-Stop-Shop) services and youth workshop activities will be consolidated."Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
National goals and objectives to promote youth employment are stated at the Government Programme "Inclusive and competent Finland - a socially, economically and ecologically sustainable society": -Each young under 25 and graduate under 30 will be offered employment, training, apprenticeship or rehabilitation within 3months from registering as an unemployed. - Outreach youth work: The target is that the service is available throughout the country and that service responds to the needs of youth (information collected with a specific tool). - Increasing the proportion of young unemployed jobseekers who have received a quality offer within 3 months of registering unemployed.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
To increase the general employment rate at 75% by 2023 (including youth).Policy areas in national youth employment strategies
- Macroeconomic and Sectoral policies
- Yes
- Enterprise Development
- Yes
- Education, Training and skills development
- Yes
- Labour Demand
- Yes
- Labour Law and Legislation
- Yes
- Labour Market Policies
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Social partners' inclusion in the youth employment strategy
- Workers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Fully involved
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- No
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Consulted
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Fully involved
- Employers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Fully involved
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Consulted
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Consulted
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Fully involved
Youth-led organizatios' inclusion in the national strategy
- Fully involved
- Yes
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- No
- Consulted
- No
- Informed
- No
- Not involved
- No
Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
The main mechanism in the implementation of the Youth guarantee is the One-Stop-Shop network (Ohjaamo). The idea is to gather different service providers under one roof from public, private and third sector. The concept is based on networking and building partnerships. There is a national steering group for Ohjaamo network and at the local level Ohjaamos' build partnerships with local actors. There is also a national Youth Guarantee working group that comments, shares ideas and follows the implementation.Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- Yes
- NEETs
- Yes
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Low skilled workers
- Yes
- Rural workers
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Yes
Additional information:
European Commission through European Social Fund (ESF). The ESF funding has been allocated to different youth employment projects that implement the Youth guarantee program. Finland is actively participating in the European Youth Guarantee programme. OECD: studies e.g Investing in Youth.