Migrants in Finland FACTS AND FIGURES

POPULATION OF FINLAND: 5.3M NATIONALITYNATIVE LANGUAGESTATE OF BIRTH Finnish Foreigners BIGGEST GROUPS Russia Estonia Sweden Somalia China Thailand Germany Turkey Britannia Iraq Finnish Swedish Saame1 777 Foreign BIGGEST GROUPS Russian Estonian English Somali Arabic Kurd Albanian China Finland Other BIGGEST GROUPS Former USSR Sweden Estonia Russia Somalia Form. Yugoslavia Germany China Iraq Thailand Working age population: 66 % of Finnish population (between years) 79 % of foreign population (~ )

Foreigners in Finland Source: Population register

Source: Population register MUNICIPALITY TOTAL POPULATION OF WHICH FOREIGNERS MENWOMENIN TOTAL % OF THE POPULATION % OF THE FOREIGNERS IN FINLAND TOTAL ,5 %100,0 % 15 municipalities with most foreigners: Helsinki ,4 %27,3 % Espoo ,4 %9,6 % Vantaa ,0 %7,3 % Turku ,4 %5,9 % Tampere ,2 %5,0 % Lahti ,9 %2,2 % Oulu ,0 %1,9 % Vaasa ,2 %1,8 % Jyväskylä ,8 %1,8 % Kotka ,3 %1,4 % Lappeenranta ,9 %1,3 % Salo ,4 %1,1 % Porvoo ,6 %1,0 % Kuopio ,4 %0,9 % Joensuu ,0 %0,9 %

Source: Ministry of the Interior publications 2/2009 YEARPOPULATION WORKING AGE POPULATION LABOUR FORCE UNEMPLOYED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE % , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,6 Foreigners in Finland 1994 – TH SEPT UNEMPLOYMENT RATE OF FOREIGNERS WAS 17,7 %

Source: Ministry of Employment and the Economy, Analytics 9/2008 Prognosis of Attrition of Employees and New Openings Per Year OCCUPATIONAL GROUP EMPLOYED 2004 ATTRITION CHANGE IN EMPLOYMENT OPENINGSATTRITION CHANGE IN EMPLOYMENT OPENINGS Services Welfare and health Industry Office work Construction Administration and specialist Education Transport and logistics Agriculture and forestry Culture and information Security Unknown TOTAL

Courses for Migrants with Higher Education Preparatory Education for Studies in University of Applied Sciences60 Teacher68 Nurse49 Medical doctor68 Russian trade10 TOTAL255

Finnish Education System

Degree Programmes Conducted in Foreign Language in Finland Source: S tudy in Finland database Total Year

Source: Statistics Finland Foreign Degree Students in Finnish HEIs

Source: Statistics Finland Foreign Degree Students in Finnish HEIs

Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Metropolia Some 14,000 students (1,000 in English degree programmes) and about 1,100 staff members Four fields of study: –Culture –Health care and social services –Business and administration –Technology and transport 49 Bachelor’s programmes (8 in English) 15 Master’s programmes (2 in English) Located in capital region cities: Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa

VOIMAA project “Resources from Immigrants”

VOIMAA in a Nutshell VOIMAA enhances the career development of immigrats to the tasks of expertice. To achieve this we build paths to higher education and develop new models for in-service training together with employers.

Goals of VOIMAA Solutions for immigrants applying to HEIs Tools and models for career development for immigrant employees Research study on employers views of immigrants career development Social media as a tool of development work as well as project planning and coordination

Working Methods in HEIs Development of multiple models of preparatory education Development work (½ year) in Metropolia and HAMK Field specific teams of teachers developing preparatory education Course of multicultural competences to UAS teacher students Pilots of few preparatory education implementations

Methods in Working Life Co-operation with 4-6 different working communities 2008 – 2011 (in cycles) –Using training for career development –Staff members participate in training pilot groups –Projects developed according to organisations' needs CURRENT PARTNERS: Itella - large organisation, operating in homeland + Europe, logistics HOK Elanto - large, homeland based company, retail services Muxlim Inc. – small, global business, social media

Background - HEIs Reform of legislation effective > Preparatory courses for higher education > No student fees 46 % of immigrants live in area of operation of Metropolia and HAMK Need for educated labour force

Social Media METHODS IN VOIMAA

Social Media Media designed to be –disseminated through social interaction –created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques Supports –human need for social interaction, using Internet- and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many) –democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers. Source: Wikipedia

Social Media Reach Technologies enable anyone to reach a global audience Accessibility Tools are available to anyone at little or no cost Usability Anyone can operate the means of production with little or no training Recency Only the participants determine any delay in response Permanence Can be altered almost instantaneously by comments or editing (former versions can be saved though) Source: Wikipedia

Social Media in VOIMAA Wiki - Development work and project coordination Blogs – Experiences of using social media Twitter, Facebook – Information and networking people relating to VOIMAA RSS feeds – Current news on VOIMAA Newsletter – Collected news once a month

Pros and Cons Explicitness No outdated documents Enables participation Enables networking Easy to correct mistakes Documentation and visibility of process Change in personal working methods takes time ICT experience Enduring incompleteness Challenges in structuring information

VOIMAA organisations VOIMAA is coordinated by Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences and carried out in co-operation with HAMK University of Applied Sciences and Fakiirimedia Ltd VOIMAA is funded by State Provincial Office of Southern Finland and European Social Fund Project lasts for three years (August 2008 to July 2011)

VOIMAA contact information Matti Rantala, Project Manager Milla Laasonen, Communication Officer Päivi Keränen, Project Coordinator WIKI: