Ecosystem for supporting work ability and participation in work - KEKO
Objectives
There are significant reforms currently underway in the service system related to work ability and finding employment. The aim of the structural changes is to develop services to be more customer oriented. This aim is pursued by developing multidisciplinary services across administrative boundaries based on the client’s needs and goals.
In the project, we aim to turn attention from development of individual functions and actors towards development of the system and overall processes. We will develop co-operation between wellbeing counties and the employment areas moving from system oriented development to ecosystem oriented development. We also examine work participation from the perspective of work potential, i.e. finding totally new kind of work.
Project objectives
- Create structures that support multidisciplinary collaboration related to people with employment challenges. This means coordinating leadership, different actors, workplaces and services — in other words a work ability support and work participation ecosystem.
- Develop and implement solutions and operating models that promote finding and maintaining employment by people with employment challenges .
- Co-develop models and proposals for solutions that are suitable for use throughout Finland to be piloted with partner networks.
- We develop and implement solutions and operating models that promote finding sustainable employment to people with employment challenges. The solutions prevent difficulties in finding employment. We co-develop solutions with other regions.
The project
- Gathers together and describes the ecosystem’s various parties and services.
Produces an overview of the working-age population of Central Uusimaa and Finland based on an extensive dataset. - In addition to demographic factors, we focus on factors related to work ability and the degree of work participation, especially when it comes to people with employment challenges.
- Creates recommendations for supporting national multisectoral collaboration. The recommendations promote a shift from system-centric to ecosystem-oriented development.
Streamline co-operation between the wellbeing counties and the employment regions. - Create shared base of knowledge regarding the overall situation of those with employment challenges, which is available to various actors and that can be used to set shared goals for the actors and monitor them.
- Build shared service chains across organisational boundaries to support people with employment challenges.
Data and methods
The project’s development work is based on the new type of examining work ability of the working-age population carried out in Finland’s Sustainable Growth Programme (2022-2024) and the Central Uusimaa work ability project (2020-2022), which brought together various actors in the field of work ability support and finding employment.
The extensive State of the Labour Force in Finland register dataset is used for grouping the working-age population.
Results and impact
- The project will result in proposals for solutions and operating models that can be used in wellbeing services counties and employment areas as well as more widely nationally for supporting people with employment challenges
- Wellbeing services counties and employment areas have local, well-functioning and productive ecosystems in which the actors are aware of their roles, each other and the special characteristics of the population in the area.
- In ecosystems, the entirety is managed smoothly, and the situation and service packages for those with employment challenges are improved. The measures create agile and coordinated services tailored to the client’s service needs.
Our experts
Mikko Henriksson
Project team
- Mikko Henriksson, Project Manager
- Matti Joensuu, Leading Researcher
- Vaula Siltala, Specialist
- Talvikki Susiluoma, Senior Specialist
Partners
The main implementer of the consortium project is the Central Uusimaa Wellbeing Services County.
The City of Järvenpää is also a project partner.
The experts from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health are responsible for creating and disseminating a regional and national overview based on the register data. We also participate in developing a basis of knowledge that describes the overall situation of those with employment challenges for all parties, in order to support their decision-making. We are also responsible for drawing up recommendations in collaboration with project operators and for the national dissemination of the knowledge base and recommendations.
Funding
European Social Fund and the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
The funding authority is Economic Development Centre of Southeast Finland.
