The document summarizes the "TOIMI" project in Finland which aims to reform the country's social security and welfare system. The key points are:
1) The project was appointed by the Finnish government to raise activity levels, prevent inequality, and prepare reforms to address changes in work and technology.
2) It will provide alternative models and solutions to increase employment, encourage entrepreneurship, simplify the benefits system, and account for changes in work and families.
3) The project involves representatives from various groups and aims to create a shared knowledge base to inform the next government's policies. It uses experimental and cross-administrative approaches.
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The Government appointed the project TOIMI,in aim to:
• raise activity and prevent inequality.
• prepare the reform, addressing the challenges posed by the
transformation of work and technology
• support and inform political actors and parties on issues related to
social security
• the results of this project are to be utilised in negotiations after the
next parliamentary elections, while forming a new government
• Project period is 28.9.2017 – 28.2.2019
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Project aims
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• The project will provide system level alternative solutions and models for the
reform
• The results of this work should include suggestions that
• increase the level of employment
• encourage employment and entrepreneurship
• decrease inequality
• give solutions to the changes ongoing in working life
• give solutions to the changes ongoing in families and family structure
• result in a simpler and more see-through system of benefits and services
and
• takes digitalisation into account
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Project TOIMI, intended results
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• The limitations and conditions of
public economy must be taken
into account
• The results of basic income
experience and other ongoing
projects concerned with
inclusion and benefits must be
taken into account in project
TOIMI, as well as the new
possibilities of national income
register
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Reform: To be taken into account
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• The project TOIMI is a new experimental way to act
• Representatives of parliamentary groups, labor market
organizations, entrepreneurs, and key social and health
organizations involved
• Cross-administrative, phenomenal case handling
• The aim of shared knowledge base and utilizing it in the work
of the next government
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The administration is experimenting
and renewed
13. Project Toimi - network
GROUP OF
EXPERTS
PARLIAMENTARY
GROUP
PERMANENT
EXPERTS
Social
Insurance
Institution
KELA
International
Cooperation
(OECD, BU..)
Foresight
activities
• Political parties
• Labor market
organizations
• Entrepreneur
associations
• NGOs
Government
Ministries
INTER-
ADMINISTRATIVE
STEERING GROUP
Universities,
researchers,
Government’s
analysis,
assessment
and research
activities
Experimental
Finland (PMO)
Research institutes
VATT, THL, TTL,
Social
Insurance Institution
KELA
Open web pages – Civil dialogues – regional Centres of Excellence on Social Welfare
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Working process
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Experiment Evaluation: Each of the alternative models is prepared with a trial run
with a schedule and resource estimate
Spring17
What do
we want?
Map of
alternatives
Earlyatumn18
What is
possible?
Economic and
financial
boundaries
Fall18
How do we
get it?
Steps and plans
forward
Bureaucratic redemption package: short and long term needs and opportunities to reduce
bureaucracy
Digital Solutions: Co-operation with the Aurora Project (Artifical Intelligence)