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Helper

Sustainable employment paths for immigrants

In Helper, we want to be a catalyst for building a good life in South Savo. Our aim is to support the attraction and retention of our region by promoting positive attitudes and developments in relation to employment and recruitment of immigrants. We also want to develop inclusion in a way that strengthens participants’ employment, education and training and Finnish language skills.

The aim of the project is to improve immigrants inclusion, access to training and employment, and job search skills.

The project measures include

Creating a job-seeking volunteering model and developing leisure opportunities
Finnish job search and its digital opportunities and promotion of knowledge of working life
Strengthening the use of plain language
Building business partnerships to support labour supply
Developing international recruitment
Personalised guidance for job and education search
Workshops, training, group guidance

Usable materials

Project uses material to support the job search in several different, listed languages.

These materials have been produced during the OSUMA project previously implemented by Juvenia.

  • English
  • Finnish
  • Arabic
  • Dari
  • Farsi
  • Ukrainian
  • Russian

Helpers / contact details

Helper – would you like to become a volunteer job search counsellor or find out more about how your community can develop volunteering in the field of guidance and employment of immigrants?

 Contact helpers Heidi, Henna or Sanna-Mari!

Phone
+358505262582
Email
Johanna.Pirinen@xamk.fi
Department
Nuorisoalan tutkimus- ja kehittämisyksikkö Juvenia
Johanna Pirinen
Project Manager
+358505262582
Johanna.Pirinen@xamk.fi
Phone
+358504751837
Email
Heidi.Aska-Randelin@xamk.fi
Department
Nuorisoalan tutkimus- ja kehittämisyksikkö Juvenia
Heidi Aska-Randelin
RDI Specialist
+358504751837
Heidi.Aska-Randelin@xamk.fi
Phone
+358504415995
Email
Henna.Rama@xamk.fi
Department
Nuorisoalan tutkimus- ja kehittämisyksikkö Juvenia
Henna Rämä
RDI Specialist
+358504415995
Henna.Rama@xamk.fi
Phone
+358401927974
Email
Sanna-Mari.Poyry@xamk.fi
Social media
Department
Nuorisoalan tutkimus- ja kehittämisyksikkö Juvenia

A service designer and youth field expert with a love of learning.

Working to strengthen inclusion and equality.

Multiculturalism close to my heart.

Involved in Juvenia projects since 2018.

Sanna-Mari Pöyry
RDI Specialist
+358401927974
Sanna-Mari.Poyry@xamk.fi
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Facts

Project name:

Helper – Sustainable employment paths for immigrants

Project duration: 1.2.2024–31.7.2026

Info

Lead partner: South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences / Juvenia – youth research and development centre
Focus area: Sustainable wellbeing
Research centre: Juvenia

Budget

Financier and main source of funding: Co-Funded by european union
Total budget: € 431 147
Xamk part of the total budget: € 107 786

Project partners

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