Future Finland

Future Finland is a nationally and internationally unique database intended to support and strengthen the health and welfare of the Finnish population over the next 100 years.

The goal is to compile a comprehensive and multidisciplinary database that will be accumulated over time on age groups born in Finland in certain years and their families. Information will be collected from various national registers as well as via data collection with surveys and measurements.

The families invited to participate in Future Finland data collection will have an exceptional opportunity to be involved in promoting future welfare.

Objectives and implementation

By enabling new types of connections between different data sources, Future Finland aims to enable novel, ambitious and cross-disciplinary research designs that produce influential information:

to support decision-making in the Finnish welfare society
to develop the Finnish RDI operating environment and cooperation, and
to promote the comprehensive welfare of the Finnish population.

The accumulating data may be used for studying more extensively and diversely the different factors and phenomena connected with welfare and their causal relationships.

Future Finland is funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation (SKR) and its preparatory phase is coordinated by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).

During the preparatory phase, an extensive network of partners and stakeholders representing different fields of science and society will be brought together to support the later implementation phase.