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1. Especially welcome groups
in education
Outreach action (pilot)
@MilmaArola
7.11.2022

2. Background:
Challenges in the Finnish System
for Continuous Learning
• Finland lacks a comprehensive strategy
for continuous learning
• Gaps in supply of education and training
• Limited upskilling opportunities for adults with
vocational qualifications
• Limited availability of short-term courses relevant
to the labour market
• The current system encourages
participation in formal education, such as
Bachelor’s Degree (free of charge,
openness, benefits)
• Sometimes expedient
• Not always the most efficient way
• May hamper young people's access to education
and training
• The existing supply of education and
training is not fully aligned with the
needs of the labour market, partly due to
deficient methods for benefiting of
anticipation information
• The biggest differences in participation
in learning between adults with low
basic skills and those with higher level
skills amongst OECD economies.
Targeted support is limited.
• Lack of outreach activities
• Lack of advice and guidance in studies
• Lack of specific and targeted study programmes
OECD publication, 19 February 2020: Continuous Learning in Working Life in Finland

3. The Service Centre for Continuous
Learning and Employment
Promotes the competence development of working-age people and the availability of
skilled labour.
1. Analyses the competence and labour market needs of working life
2. Finances short-term courses relevant for the labour market (target groups: working-
age people, people in and outside of the work force)
3. Develops information, advisory and guidance service
4. Supports regional and other cooperation

4. Especially
welcome groups in
education
(underrepresented groups)
People who, according to
reports, participate the least in
education, but who would
presumably benefit the most
from it.

5. In working life Outside of the workforce
People relying on
basic education
Weak basic skills
People working in small businesses
Over 55 y.o.
People working in fields
undergoing structural change
People with learning difficulties
Immigrants
People who work in manual labour
Especially
welcome groups
in education
• A heterogenous group of
people of different ages in
different life situations,
positions in the labour market
and with varied skills and
educational backgrounds
• Developing of skills must be
attractive and possible for
everyone.

6. Studies started as an
adult raise earnings
and employment, but
the effects depend
considerably on
educational
background: the
effects are the greater
the lower the initial
level of education.
(ETLA Economic
Reserch)

7. OECD’s
recommendation:
reach out to adults
with low basic
skills.

8. To find out what works:
Two randomized test pilots
1. Outreach action pilot
• training advice and group guidance
in small companies
• group guidance is based on the
company’s competence needs
• each group guidance is attended at
least one person relying on basic
education / person with no more
than a general education"
• in total, at least 1200 group guidance
is held in different parts of Finland
1/2023-6/2024
• the results in 2025
2. Educational information by letter
• People relying on basic education are
sent home a letter informing them of
educational opportunities
Both pilots compares whether
target group participates more than
control group
Impacts are followed up by registers
The reserach carried out by ETLA
Economic Research, The Labour
Institute for Economic Research
LABORE and Finnish Institute of
Occupational Health