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Information for those who are involved in an organisation or voluntary work

Organisation operators and volunteers support immigrants’ participation in society. Low-threshold activities promote immigrant integration together with authorities. Providing support in the person’s own language is a significant perk of the organisations.
 

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Partnership programme The integration partnership programme supports the effectiveness of the work promoting integration and social inclusion by bringing together operators and increasing multi-professional and diverse cooperation.
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Services by organisations Organisations play a significant role in promoting integration from the early-stage housing tasks to language clubs and different hobbies.
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Voluntary work Become a volunteer through organisations. A large organisation can often support their volunteers by organising training and counselling for performing voluntary work.
Services promoting integration Integration and refugee reception are supported by means of different services. The responsibility for organising the services falls especially on municipalities and wellbeing services counties
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Kotoutumisentukena.fi You can announce or apply for low-threshold activities promoting integration on the Kotoutumisentukena.fi site.
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Principles of integration work The promotion of integration is steered by legislation. It is connected to, among other things, government and municipal programmes for the promotion of integration, to the promotion of integration as an interdisciplinary practice, and to partnerships between different actors.

News for those working for organisations or volunteering

A new website to serve those involved in integration
1.9.2021 | News item
The online service maintained by the Centre of Expertise in Immigrant Integration of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment has been updated. The old kotouttaminen.fi website was disabled and the actual version of the kotoutuminen.fi website was released on Wednesday 1 September 2021. As a result, only kotoutuminen.fi website will be available to users.