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Finnish data entry: Your digital data can become “MyData”

Finland is the perfect place for the development of the MyData movement, which aims to give people control over their digital data.

Life & society Slideshows

Autumn brings a festival of colour to Finnish Lapland’s fells

The autumn colours come early in Lapland, in the far north of Finland.

Business & innovation Sustainability

Finland pioneers circular economy to ensure prosperity in the future

The goal of the circular economy is simple: to halt over-consumption so that we can still afford to be prosperous in the future.

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Number of lakes in Finland

Facts, stats and info Finnishness

What do people in Finland do in their free time?

What sports do they watch in Finland? What classes do they attend? How much do they travel? How much volunteer work do they do? These stats give you the answers.

Business & innovation Entrepreneurs

Finnish Valtavalo sells lighting as a service

Valtavalo, a manufacturer of LED tubes, sells lighting as a service, rather than purveying lamps as products. This is an excellent example of the circular economy concept, based on buying a service rather than a physical product.

Arts & culture Music

Music brings together people from all over, at Finland’s Flow Fest

We talk to some of the numerous visitors from abroad at Helsinki’s Flow Festival. What brought them to Flow, and what are their impressions? Also, see our slideshow for a glimpse of festival ambiance.

Arts & culture Webpick

Finnish theatre tells the story of humankind

In a breathtaking feat of dramatic construction, a group of Helsinki-based theatre-makers condenses hundreds of thousands of years of human history into just 1 hour and 40 minutes.

Life & society Climate

Finnish schools emphasise climate change education

Teaching about the environment and climate change forms an important part of the curriculum in Finnish schools. We look at one school that is also taking action by utilising renewable energy.

in the world to grant women the right to vote (#1 in Europe)

Source: Inter-Parliamentary Union

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