Evaluation study about the Finnish basic income experiment is ongoing. Preliminary results to be published on Friday, 8 February 2019.

In a world full of complex challenges, solutions born on the designer’s table alone will not work. That is why we increasingly need to take swift action – developing by experimenting. To make the most out of the experiments we need also supporters of experiments. For them we have published a guide called "How to support experiments - a guide for the mentors".

The target set by Prime Minister Sipilä’s Government is to make Finland the world leader in innovation and experiments by 2025. This target is also being achieved in the key project ‘A culture of experimentation will be introduced’, more commonly known as Experimental Finland. The culture of experimentation in this Government Programme has been unique on the world scene and has received a great deal of international attention.

The Experimental Finland project of the Prime Minister’s Office, together with Motiva Ltd, requested applications for pilot projects to strengthen the digital skills of personnel in the social welfare and healthcare sector from 13 September to 17 October 2018. Strengthening digital skills frees up more time for the essential – encountering patients. The call for applications, implemented using the ‘Place to Experiment’ platform, received 37 submissions, of which 17 were selected, some conditionally.

The Government of Finland has launched an “Experimentation Accelerator”, a network-based self-organising platform for innovative public servants to develop cross-sectoral solutions through co-creation, mutual learning and sparring from inspiring innovation champions. This year there are 17 teams involved in the process consisting of 4 co-working sessions, with experiments ranging from Lean Start-up, deepened service thinking in and across the participating organisations to AI and strategic HR.