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Annual track event at Olympic Stadium gathers Swedish-speaking kids from all over Finland

At the Relay Carnival, thousands of children wearing their school colours chant and cheer for their classmates to run faster. Brightly dressed cheerleaders with colourful pom-poms compete for attention, contributing to the festive atmosphere.

Life & society Media

Educated decisions: Finnish media literacy deters disinformation

Finland has a long history of promoting media literacy as a critical tool for a stable democracy and a healthy society.

Life & society Equality

Finland tops World Happiness Report for fifth time in a row, highlights trust, wellbeing and freedom – other Nordics in top 8

Finland leads the 2022 World Happiness Report, with the other Nordic countries keeping it company in the top eight. What are the values and systems that contribute to keeping Finland at the head of this list?

in the Human Capital Index

Source: World Economic Forum

Business & innovation Equality

Finnish organisation gets women into coding and opens career paths

The software industry is male-dominated, but Mimmit koodaa (Women code) has brought thousands of women into professional coding. It started with workshops and grew to include networking and career support.

Life & society Sports

Finnish American helps Finland lead in cheerleading

World champion cheerleader Kayleigh Karinen had already lived in the US, Chile and Spain when she decided to settle down in Finland, the country of her ancestors.

47%

of Finnish people earn a higher education degree

Source: OECD

Life & society Equality

Turkish organisation that combats violence against women receives international award in Finland

Finland has awarded the International Gender Equality Prize, the first high-profile prize of its kind in the world, to the We Will Stop Femicide Platform – an organisation doing groundbreaking work to combat violence against women in Turkey.

Business & innovation Education

Finnish company encourages fun science education for kids

Kide Science creates science education for children that is literally child’s play. The fun, hands-on pedagogical model is based on substantial research into how kids learn best.

Life & society Finnishness

In a year marked by Covid-19, World Happiness Report emphasises trust and points to Finland

In 2021, Finland tops the annual World Happiness Report for the fourth year in a row, with the other Nordic countries all in the top ten. We take a look at how the report works, and see what the Finnish word “onni” might have to do with Finland’s results.

100%

Literacy rate in Finland

Source: CIA World Factbook