Continuing funding for North Calotte training
The approval of the agreement between Finland, Norway and Sweden on the North Calotte Education Foundation
Finland will approve the co-operation agreement with Sweden and Norway concerning the North Calotte Education Foundation for the years 2020–2023. The agreement guarantees Finnish students training places in vocational labour market training organised by the foundation.
- Status
- Passed
- Submitted
- 28 Nov 2019
- Latest event
- 12 Dec 2019
- Votes
- 0
- Speeches
- 4
- Statute
- 6/2020
- Source
- eduskunta.fi ↗
What is proposed
The agreement between Finland, Norway and Sweden on the operations and funding of the North Calotte Education Foundation will be renewed for the four-year period 2020–2023. In Finland, responsibility for the steering and funding of the training will transfer to the Ministry of Education and Culture.
What it means
Finland will fund 80 labour market training places from the foundation and student accommodation with approximately 1.7 million euros annually. Training is organised in the construction, building services, and restaurant and catering sectors, and it promotes labour mobility in the North Calotte. The agreement will enter into force at the beginning of 2020.
How Parliament voted
The bill passed without a vote – no MP proposed rejecting or amending it in plenary.
Debate in the chamber
What was argued and where each group stood, followed by MPs' speeches verbatim from the parliamentary record. Speeches are shown in their original language.
4 speeches · 3 speakers · 2 debates
Key points of the debate
The debate addressed the continuation of the co-operation agreement between Finland, Norway and Sweden concerning the North Calotte Education Foundation for the years 2020–2023. The proposal met with complete unanimity, and MPs emphasised the importance of Nordic educational co-operation and labour mobility.
- Left AllianceIn favour
The training provided by the foundation is of high quality and offers good conditions for labour mobility and high employability in the North Calotte region.
”Tämän arvioinnin mukaan säätiön tarjoama koulutus on laadukasta ja tuottaa lisäarvoa sekä osallistujille, henkilökunnalle että työmarkkinoille.”
— Li Andersson - National Coalition PartyIn favour
Nordic educational co-operation is highly commendable, and it supports economic growth, investment and labour mobility in the region.
”Kun tässä nyt taas jälleen kerran jatketaan sitä hyvää yhteistyötä, niin kannatan tätä lämpimästi.”
— Paula Risikko
This digest was generated by AI from 4 speeches 13 Sep 2026. Group positions are read from the speeches, not from votes; quotations were checked verbatim against the record.
Keskustelu päättyi. Asia lähetettiin sivistysvaliokuntaan.
Keskustelu päättyi. Eduskunta hyväksyi hallituksen esityksessä HE 94/2019 vp tarkoitetun sopimuksen. Asian käsittely päättyi.
Stages of consideration
The bill's path from the preliminary debate to the decision, as recorded by Parliament.
- 28 Nov 2019Eduskuntakäsittelyn vireilletulo · Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö
- 3 Dec 2019Lähetekeskustelu · Täysistunto
- 5 Dec 2019Valiokunnan mietintö tai lausunto · sivistysvaliokunta
- 10 Dec 2019Ainoa käsittely · Täysistunto
- 11 Dec 2019Eduskunnan vastaus ja kirjelmä
Decisions by law proposal1
- Suomen, Norjan ja Ruotsin välinen Pohjoiskalotin koulutussäätiötä koskeva sopimusHyväksytty · 6/2020
Proposed law text
The law proposals in the bill as the Government presented them. The final act may differ after committee consideration.
The law text is shown in Finnish or Swedish from Parliament's official documents; it is not translated into English.
Main content of the bill (official)
The summary and title were produced with AI on 13 Sep 2026. They are not official documents – check the details in the original bill. The title and summaries are machine translations of the Finnish AI summaries. Speeches and quotations are always shown in their original language.