Description
Country
Focus area
The purpose of the OEF is to promote dialogue between the education sector and working life. The OEF produces foresights/skills anticipation and educational needs. These skills anticipations are the starting point for the dialogue between education and working life partners. The OEF has 9 foresight groups that specializes in different sectors, and these groups consist of experts in the area and they make the skills anticipation analyses.
Link
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Implementation level
At what level is the initiative implemented?
National
Legal base
Legal base (E.g. Law, regulation, implementing provision, other)
The OEF has been established by a decision in the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland.
Starting period
TIMESPAN: In what year did the initiative commence?
The OEF is temporary and its term of office is 1/1-21 to 31/12-24 (4 years)
Perspective
PERSPECTIVE: is the initiative based on evidence derived from skill forecasts or foresight activities?
No, the OEF supplies these skills foresights to enable an informed dialogue between ministries and other actors that concern themselves with education and working life.
Policy area
To which POLICY AREAS(s) does the initiative apply?
Funding
How it is funded?
Funded by national government
Skill mismatch
Skill mismatch target
What type(s) of skills MISMATCH does the initiative aim to addresses?
Other
The OEF addresses skills mismatch in general by informing the dialogue between work life and education. This means that the type of skills mismatch depends on, which tasks the OEF is addressing. The OEF's task is to come up with recommendations, initiatives and proposals based on foresight analyses that national authorities can use when administrating and developing policies related to education and work life.
Skills matching focus
How does the initiative address skills mismatches?
The OEF has 9 foresight groups that each inform education and work life policies and dialogues in different sectors. How they do so depend on the sector, the groups' tasks from the Ministry of Education and Culture etc.
Methods
Methods
What methods of undertaking skills assessments and / or skills anticipation does the policy instrument utilise?
Skills forecasting
The OEF's tasks in this matter are to anticipate skills and training needs, analyse the changing and emerging skills needs in the Finnish work life. To do so, they use both qualitative and quantitative data.
Skills foresight
The OEF's tasks in this matter are to anticipate skills and training needs, analyse the changing and emerging skills needs in the Finnish work life. To do so, they use both qualitative and quantitative data.
Use of skills intelligence
How is labour market information / skills intelligence used within the initiative?
The knowledge obtained in the skills foresights of the OEF are used to inform national authorities' decisions regarding policies concerned with education, work life and the coherence between the two.
Stakeholders
Main responsible body
Main body or organisation with overall responsibility for the initiative.
National ministry
Ministry of Education and Culture
Other involved organisations
Which other organisations have a role in the initiative?
National agency
National Board of Education. Its role is to organize the activities of the foresight groups and making the foresight plan for the OEF.
Beneficiaries
Who are the intended beneficiaries?
Other
There are no direct beneficiaries because the OEF produces knowledge as input to the policy process etc. Who the beneficiaries are depends on which sort of policy is discussed based on the OEF's analyses.
Sustainability
Success factors
SUCCESS FACTORS in the implementation
The foresight groups in the OEF have identified areas for development on the basis of skills anticipation and they have made recommendations etc.
Monitoring and evaluation
MONITORING and EVALUATION: Is progress measured regularly? What are the indicators used to measure progress of the policy instrument? Have any evaluations been conducted?
There is no available information about monitoring and indicators. An evaluation of the previous OEF has been carried out, and that is based on whether or not the OEF follows the plan set out by the National Board of Education.
Updates
UPDATES: whether there have been any major updates of the initiative since it has been implemented?
No
The current OEF has only been operating since 1/1-21, so it is too new to have been updated.
Effectiveness
EVIDENCE ON EFFECTIVENESS: How effective is the policy instrument?
There is no evidence of the effectiveness of the current OEF.
Sustainability
SUSTAINABILITY: How sustainable is the policy instrument? Do you expect the instrument to continue over the next few years and why?
The OEF has a term of 4 years, and it has a predecessor that ran from 2017-2020. Therefore, it is expected that the initiative will continue.
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