Responsibility and sustainable development

Our goals are

• Strengthen the preventive work, paying particular attention to the needs of vulnerable people.
• Promote customer-oriented and effective services and operating models that support well-being in cooperation with various stakeholders.
• Support and promote active lifestyles and functional capacity.
• Take into account the special characteristics of the Lapland operating environment and nature-based approaches to promoting well-being (including sustainable, local food production).

• Promote well-being, employment, productivity, and competitive advantage in a socially sustainable economic network.
• Find ways to balance work, family life, and studies.

Our goals are

• Guarantee open, equal, and high-quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all.
• Provide access to education regardless of background, functional limitations, or place of residence.
• Promote the accessibility of education: developing student recruitment, curricular implementation, and diverse learning environments.
• Promote open and broad-based cooperation with diverse learners and educational actors nationally and internationally.

Our goals are

• Support the energy transition in Lapland and other challenging Arctic environments.
• Promote the transition from fossil fuels to renewable, affordable energy.
• Promote energy production/efficiency by utilizing, for example, side streams and waste heat recovery.
• Increase international cooperation in clean energy research and technological development.
• Promote investments in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology.
• Improve the availability of raw materials and find new uses for them, for example in forestry. Increase the share of renewable energy in the energy economy.
• Develop smart grid solutions and production methods to promote and manage decentralized energy production and consumption.

Our goals are

• Respond to labor needs so that everyone can find their place in working life based on their own skills and resources.
• Promote the retention of young people, students, and skilled labor in the region.
• Promote opportunities for all people to have a safe working environment and employment relationship.
• Develop diversity, leadership, skills, and working environments in working life.
• Promote sustainable competitiveness and economic growth in balance with the operating environment.
• Promote entrepreneurship and the integration of various types of business.
• Develop practices together with SMEs and micro-enterprises that diversify the economic structure, improve productivity and crisis preparedness, and support sustainable local production and services.

Our goals are

• Promote sustainable industry and green transition.
• Develop high-quality, reliable, sustainable, accessible, and energy-efficient information systems and services.
• Increase the adoption of clean and environmentally friendly technologies and production processes, improve business practices, the efficiency of material/raw material use and added value, and develop new production methods.
• Increase the use of smart new technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence, automation, and robotics).
• Develop business-oriented, regional R&D and production environments. Increase applied research that renews the technological capabilities of industrial sectors.
• Assist SMEs in accessing financial services through regional ecosystems.

Our goals are

•  Smart development of sustainable built environment, land use, and planning (including geographic information expertise).
• Support the ability of cities and communities to identify harmful environmental impacts. Promote climate work in municipalities and cities through effective circular economy practices (locally and internationally).
• Promote resource smartness by paying particular attention to life cycle thinking, reducing climate emissions, finding new solutions, improving air quality, greener material choices, reuse, and the circular economy.
• Promote sustainable community planning and efficient, economically driven construction. Develop transport arrangements, infrastructure, and smart transport solutions.
• Cherish the local culture, cultural history, and natural values of communities. Take into account the importance of the local natural environment for the comfort, well-being, and health of residents.
• Promote participatory, user-oriented design. Design high-quality, accessible indoor environments where digital and physical spaces are integrated.