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Funders

InfoFinland is funded by Partner municipalities and the state. In 2025–2028, state funding is received from the KEHA Centre, the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, the Ministry of the Environment, Kela, the Finnish Tax Administration and the Finnish Immigration Service.

InfoFinland is developed in cooperation with its funders. People who are planning to move to Finland can easily find information – in several languages – on living, housing, working and studying in Finland through InfoFinland.

State

KEHA Centre

The KEHA Centre (Development and Administrative Services Centre) is responsible for providing nationwide support for professionals in integration and refugee reception.

Link redirects to another websiteKEHA Centre

Website

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment

The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment is responsible for preparing issues related to integration in Finland. The Centre of Expertise in Immigrant Integration supports work promoting the integration of immigrants locally, regionally and nationally.

Link redirects to another websiteMinistry of Economic Affaris and Employment

Integration of immigrants

Ministry of Education and Culture

The Ministry of Education and Culture is responsible for the development and international cooperation related to education, research, culture, sports, and child and youth policy.

Link redirects to another websiteMinistry of Education and Culture

Website

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is in charge of the planning, steering and implementation of social and health policy. Several independent institutions and agencies operate in the Ministry’s administrative sector, such as THL, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, and Kela, the Social Insurance Institution of Finland.

Link redirects to another websiteThe Ministry of Social Affairs and Health

Website

Ministry of the Environment

The Ministry of the Environment is in charge of the preparation of matters connected to communities, man-made environment, housing, natural diversity, sustainable use of natural resources and environmental protection.

Link redirects to another websiteMinistry of the Environment

Website

Kela (the Social Insurance Institution of Finland)

Kela takes care of the basic security of people living in Finland in various life situations. Kela’s customers include all people who are covered by Finnish social security and living in Finland or abroad.

Finnish Immigration Service

The Finnish Immigration Service makes decisions on matters relating to immigration, asylum, refugees and citizenship and maintains Finland’s reception system. It also provides information services for international needs and for domestic decision-makers and authorities.
 

Link redirects to another websiteFinnish Immigration Service

Website

Finnish Tax Administration

Link redirects to another websiteFinnish Tax Administration

Website

Municipalities

City of Helsinki

Publishes and manages InfoFinland.

Municipalities involved in the cooperation agreement

City of Espoo, City of Vantaa, City of Kauniainen

The City of Vaasa will be involved until 31 December 2025.

Cooperation agreement of InfoFinland

The funders of InfoFinland have concluded a cooperation agreement on the principles for the implementation and funding of the InfoFinland web service for the period 2025–2028.

The parties will continue to maintain and develop InfoFinland in accordance with the InfoFinland 2024 vision.

  • InfoFinland is a reliable source of information: We provide reliable and up-to-date information on moving to and living in Finland. The information can be easily found in one place.
  • InfoFinland is clearly multi-language: We support integration by providing information about moving to and living in Finland in a clear and multi-lingual way. As a rule, we produce national pages and pages for municipalities in the Helsinki region in all the languages of the service.
  • InfoFinland is life situation-oriented: we provide practical information tailored to the user’s life situation.

Further information related to joining is provided by InfoFinland’s Chief Editor Eija Kyllönen-Saarnio, eija.kyllonen-saarnio@hel.fi (Link opens default mail program).