Coordination for equal inclusion

The Coordination for equal inclusion supports the inclusion projects of the European Social Fund (ESF+ 4.3). We also support the implementation of the gender equality goals of The Innovation and Skills in Finland programme.

In the coordination's Innokylä section, you will find information on events aimed for projects as well as other current updates in Finnish. All our public events are listed in THL’s event calendar.

Goals

The Coordination for equal inclusion supports and coordinates the development projects of the special objective 4.3 of the European Social Fund (ESF+) in the themes of inclusion, non-discrimination and gender equality. The aim is to increase the impact of projects so that the results of the project development work can be applied in new operating environments and more extensively in society.

Coordination is part of the EU's Innovation and Skills in Finland 2021–2017 Structural Fund programme and its priority area 4 Competent and Inclusive Finland that Provides Work.

Support and coordination of inclusion, gender equality and equality in the work of European Social Fund 2021–2027 (Structuralfunds.fi)

Implementation

The Coordination for equal inclusion

• will support funded development projects and create conditions for interaction and peer learning between these
• will increase competence related to impact assessment and systematic description of operating approaches and models in the development projects
• collects and disseminates the results of the ESF+ 4.3 development work, as well as the experiential knowledge generated through the work in relation to inclusion, non-discrimination and gender equality
• strengthens projects' expertise in inclusion, non-discrimination and gender equality.

The coordination team is developing electronic evaluation indicators intended for the use of the ESF+ special objective 4.3 projects to measure experiences of inclusion and experiences of discrimination. The indicators will include the Inclusion Survey (including the Experiences of Social Inclusion Scale, ESIS) and the Discrimination survey. The preliminary timetable for the electronic evaluation indicators has changed and the indicators are expected to be available for use by projects in summer 2026. If you would like to use the questions from the Inclusion Survey or the Discrimination Survey in your own questionnaires, you can obtain the questions in the surveys from Evaluation Specialist Marko Nousiainen ([email protected]).

The target groups of coordination are the development projects, funding authorities, national substance authorities and other coordination projects referred to in European Social Fund (ESF+) special objective 4.3.

Funding

Co-funded by the European Union

Partners

Coordination works together with and has a joint steering group with the SOS Children's Village and the Youth Academy Coordinating the participation and inclusion of children, young people and families (ESF+).
Coordinating the participation and inclusion of children, young people and families

The work of the coordination team is based on the results of previous coordination projects, such as Sokra coordination’s tools and research.
Sokra coordination (in Finnish, Innokylä)

Updated: 20.5.2026