Reports from Ministries on Promoting Sport and Physical Activity in Finland REPORTS FROM MINISTRIES ON PROMOTING SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN FINLAND
MEASURES TO PROMOTE SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Objectives Measures Key performance indicators
• Promoting intersectoral cooperation • Sport and physical activity as part of • Studies and research projects relating intersectoral cooperation (including the to sport and physical activity as • Supporting the Government’s INTEREST IN PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY promotion of sustainable development part of the Government’s analysis, decision-making Promoting intersectoral cooperation in central and healthy public sports facilities) assessment and research activities government. • Promoting sport and physical activity as part of the Government’s analysis, assessment and research activities BASIC INFORMATION (VN TEAS) Responsibilities (1) Services to the Government
(2) State ownership steering
(3) Intersectoral cooperation
(4) Finland’s EU policy RESOURCES KEY LEGISLATION DEVELOPMENT NEEDS (DETERMINED BY THE NATIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL) Finances Estimated direct contributions: • Government Act €0.22 billion / 0.4% of the Government budget (2018). • Promoting an intersectoral approach to sport • Financing from the Government’s • Government Rules of Procedure and physical activity analysis, assessment and research Personnel activities (VN TEAS) for reports and • Accounting for the perspectives of sport 645 person-years (2019). research on sport and physical activity, and physical activity with a cross-cutting approx. €0.15 million (2018) approach in projects of the Government’s Key agencies and institutions of the administrative analysis, assessment and research activities Estimated indirect contributions: branch Finnish Council of Regulatory Impact Analysis, Research • Promoting sport and physical activity as part of promoting an intersectoral and Innovation Council and Economic Council. approach (cannot be quantified) REPORTS FROM MINISTRIES ON PROMOTING SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN FINLAND
MEASURES TO PROMOTE SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Objectives Measures Key performance indicators
• Strengthening Finland’s international • Fostering international cooperation • No identifiable indicators status through sport INTEREST IN PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY • Securing Finland’s independence and • Promoting development cooperation Promoting Finland’s international status, sustainable territorial integrity through sport development, equality, democracy and human rights. • Improving the security and wellbeing of people living in Finland
BASIC INFORMATION • Promoting sustainable development, Responsibilities international stability, peace, Key areas of responsibility include foreign policy and democracy, human rights, rule of law and equality security policy, development policy and development cooperation, external economic relations and international human rights policy.
Budget RESOURCES KEY LEGISLATION DEVELOPMENT NEEDS (DETERMINED BY THE €1.12 billion / 2% of the Government budget (2018). NATIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL) Estimated direct contributions: • No key legislation in terms of promoting sport or physical activity • Making better use of sustainable physical Personnel • Subsidies for development cooperation activity and sport as means of promoting projects aiming to promote sport, The Ministry has around 880 employees and the Foreign development cooperation and issues €0.15 million (2018) Service around 2,330 (2018). important for Finland in the international Estimated indirect contributions: context, including ambitious climate policy, human rights, equality and non- Key agencies and institutions of the administrative • Contribution to promoting discrimination as well as democracy and civil branch international cooperation through society Finland’s network of foreign missions, or embassies and sport (cannot be quantified) • Enhancing a methodical and strategic consulates, delegations to international organisations approach to using sustainable sport and (EU, Council of Europe, OECD, UN organisations, NATO, physical activity in international cooperation WTO) and other branches. REPORTS FROM MINISTRIES ON PROMOTING SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN FINLAND
MEASURES TO PROMOTE SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Objectives Measures Key performance indicators
• Equal rights to • Coordination and development of • NGOs’ and municipalities’ joint bodies relevant to physical participation and civil society and voluntary activities activity possibilities for (Conditions for NGO and voluntary INTEREST IN PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY • Initiatives and statements related to sport and physical exerting influence activities in sport and physical activity) Promoting social inclusion, democracy, equality and equity activity • Modern and • Influencing drafting; promoting as well as reducing discrimination in society. • Use of channels for participation and exertion of influence incentivising legal consultations and the right to put in the development of municipal sport services order forward initiatives (inclusion in decision-making on sport and physical • Promotion of equality and non-discrimination in municipalities’ • High-quality BASIC INFORMATION activity) strategies for promoting sport and physical activity legislative Responsibilities drafting • Promotion of fundamental rights, • Number of non-discrimination and equality plans in NGOs (1) Legal order and legal protection (2) structures of equality and non-discrimination as well promoting sport and physical activity • A high standard democracy, and (3) citizens’ fundamental rights. as monitoring of discrimination (equity of legal protection • Number of complaints related to sport and physical activity in sport, equality and discrimination) (equality and non-discrimination) and discrimination in • Fair criminal Budget • Prisoners’ opportunities for physical activity services liability €0.927 billion / 1.7% of the Government budget (2018). participating in physical activity • Grade for linguistic services at sports facilities
Personnel RESOURCES KEY LEGISLATION Approximately 260 person-years at the Ministry, 9,250 DEVELOPMENT NEEDS (DETERMINED BY THE NATIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL) person-years in the administrative branch in total (2019). Estimated direct contributions: • Constitution of Finland • Gender equality and addressing gender diversity in • No estimated direct • Associations Act sport and physical activity Key agencies and institutions of the administrative investment in promoting sport • Administrative Procedure Act • Promotion of equal opportunities for participation in branch and physical activity sport and physical activity • Non-Discrimination Act Courts, prosecutor’s offices, enforcement offices, Office Estimated indirect contributions: • Different types of harassment and discrimination in of the Ombudsman for Children, Office of the Equality • UN Convention on the Rights of • Indirect promotion of sport sport and physical activity Ombudsman, Office of the Non-Discrimination Ombudsman, Persons with Disabilities and physical activity, for • Developing the monitoring of equity, equality and Non-Discrimination and Equality Board, Office of the Data example through the operating • Act on Equality between Women discrimination in sport and physical activity, especially Protection Ombudsman and Data Protection Board, Sámi expenses of the Ministry of and Men at the level of practical activities Justice and the authorities Parliament and Consumer Disputes Board. • Imprisonment Act • Improving citizens’ participation in decision-making working in conjunction with it on physical activity (cannot be quantified) • Enhancing good governance and developing operating models consistent with good governance in sports administration and organisations • Active participation of NGOs promoting physical activity and sport in developing the civil society REPORTS FROM MINISTRIES ON PROMOTING SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN FINLAND
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• Analysing the security environment • Safety and security as an enabler of • Safety and security experienced by and anticipating changes physical activity and sports (including the population INTEREST IN PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY safety and security at events, safety and • Prevention of insecurity caused by • Safety and security of sports A capable body of public servants who ensure safety and security of sports shooting and hunting) social exclusion and physical activity events (no security. • Gambling and fundraising as well as information source as yet) • Efficient and effective security legislation and supervision that enable the structures and processes • Capabilities of the police, rescue financing of sport and physical activity service and border guard personnel BASIC INFORMATION • Maintaining and improving the • Role of physical activity in maintaining and resilience of the individual and society Responsibilities promoting the functional capacity of police, Internal security and immigration: (1) police, (2) rescue rescue and border guard personnel and as services, (3) migration, (4) border management. part of training in these sectors
Budget €1.48 billion / 2.7% of the Government budget (2018). RESOURCES KEY LEGISLATION DEVELOPMENT NEEDS (DETERMINED BY THE Personnel NATIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL) Estimated direct contributions: • Lotteries Act The Ministry has around 240 employees, while the • Safeguarding the preconditions for Sports • Contributions to personnel’s physical • Money Collection Act administrative branch has around 15,200 in total (2019). shooting and hunting activity and conditions for being active • Firearms Act in the police, rescue and border guard Key agencies and institutions of the administrative • Stadium safety and security as well as sectors (cannot be quantified) • Public Order Act monitoring of and statistics on safety and branch security at sports and physical activity events • Police Act National Police Board, Finnish Immigration Service, Estimated indirect contributions: Finnish Border Guard, Emergency Response Centre • Promotion of sport and physical activity • Rescue Act also through other appropriations, Administration, Emergency Services College, Crisis • Border Guard Act Management Centre and Finnish Security Intelligence including appropriations for police education and training (cannot be • Assembly Act Service. quantified) REPORTS FROM MINISTRIES ON PROMOTING SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN FINLAND
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Preventive military defence • Conscripts’ physical education, physical • Conscripts’ fitness tests training and free-time physical activity capability • Proportion of physical activity in INTEREST IN PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY • Defence policy that serves • Sports School: non-commissioned officers as training Maintaining and improving the population’s (and especially well as national and international competitions Finland’s interests • Number of conscripts’ sports clubs conscripts’) physical and mental functional capacity to and coaching activities and the number of participants/ meet the needs of emergency conditions and times of • Enhancing international security • Physical activity of Defence Forces personnel recorded performances peace as part of maintaining military capability. • A safe and secure society • Promoting sport and physical activity among • Number of dropouts from military the rest of the population (the Defence Forces’ service on grounds of physical fitness efforts to promote work ability and physical BASIC INFORMATION • Personnel’s fitness tests activity in national defence organisations) Responsibilities • Field fitness tests • Projects, research and continuing education (1) defence policy, (2) military defence, (3) coordination related to sport and physical activity • Fitness tests for reservists of comprehensive national defence, and (4) military crisis management and peace-keeping tasks. RESOURCES KEY LEGISLATION DEVELOPMENT NEEDS (DETERMINED BY Budget THE NATIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL) Estimated direct contributions: • Act on the Defence Forces €2.92 billion / 5.2% of the Government budget (2018). • Monitoring reservists’ fitness levels • Approx. 60 full or part time employees in the • Government Decree on the and knowledge base physical activity sector and approx. 35 employees Personnel Defence Forces at the Sports School, around €5 million/year • Talking about lifestyles and improving The Ministry of Defence has around 130 employees, while • Conscription Act the offer of potential support • International competitions and coaching activities the administrative branch has around 12,800 in total (2019). measures at call-ups as well as organisation of competitions, • Act on Voluntary Military €0.7 million/year Service for Women • Improving the fitness level of Key agencies and institutions of the administrative incoming conscripts in broad-based branch • Sports School’s coaching activities, €0.36 million/ • Act on Voluntary National cooperation year Defence Finnish Defence Forces, Construction Establishment of • Increasing participation rates in Defence Administration • Military Finnish Championships, €0.07 million/year • Ministry of Defence decree on voluntary physical activity during the eligibility requirements and Estimated indirect contributions: military service (e.g. high-quality low terms of employment of military threshold opportunities for physical • Garrisons’ sports facilities and their operating crisis management personnel activity) costs (cannot be quantified) • Maintaining a good level of physical • Brigades’ procurement and coaching activities fitness after military service in reserve (cannot be quantified) (e.g. talking about physical activity and physical activity advice as part of • Support for the personnel’s wellbeing at work (role refresher courses) of physical activity, cannot be quantified) REPORTS FROM MINISTRIES ON PROMOTING SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN FINLAND
MEASURES TO PROMOTE SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Objectives Measures Key performance indicators
• Growth in employment and • Taxation that supports sport and • Operating expenses of sport and productivity physical activity outdoor activity per resident incurred INTEREST IN PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY by municipalities • Customer-centred and productive • Promoting sport and physical activity as Safeguarding sustainable public finances. public services part of municipalities’ basic services • Financing for the promotion of sport and physical activity in the • Sustainability of public finances • Sustainable economic policy that Government budget BASIC INFORMATION enables the promotion of sport and • International participation and a physical activity Responsibilities successful Europe (1) Economic policy, (2) Taxation, (3) Financial markets, (4) Governance policy, (5) Local government affairs, (6) Public sector ICT, and (7) Government as employer.
Budget €17.3 billion / 31% of the Government budget (2018).
RESOURCES KEY LEGISLATION DEVELOPMENT NEEDS (DETERMINED BY THE Personnel NATIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL) The Ministry has around 360 employees, while the Estimated direct contributions: • Local Government Act • Tax policy that promotes an active lifestyle, administrative branch has around 12,100 in total (2019). • No direct contribution to promoting • Act on Central Government Transfers sport and physical activity, including sport and physical activity to Local Government for Basic Public harmonisation and development of VAT rates Key agencies and institutions of the administrative Estimated indirect contributions: Services (in addition to health and wellbeing services branch subject to VAT at zero per cent, a single VAT • Promotion of sport and physical • Income Tax Act Regional State Administrative Agencies, Local Register rate to cover all physical activity services activity through central government Offices, Government Institute for Economic Research, • Value Added Tax Act would be introduced, the level of which transfers to local governments and would encourage physical activity) State Treasury, Statistics Finland, Population Register appropriations, including transfers for Centre as well as Government Shared Services Centre for basic public services, or EUR 8.5 billion • Safeguarding appropriations for physical Finance and HR, Senate Properties, HAUS Finnish Institute (2018, cannot be quantified) activity in the Government budget and of Public Management, Hansel Ltd, State Pension Fund improving cross-administrative financing for promotion of physical activity and Municipal Guarantee Board. REPORTS FROM MINISTRIES ON PROMOTING SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN FINLAND
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Objectives Measures Key performance indicators • Better • General leadership, coordination and • Proportions of those who accumulate the recommended knowledge, development of sport policy as well as creation amount of physical activity as well as physical functional INTEREST IN PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY skills and of general preconditions in central government capacity in different population and age groups (municipalities, civil participation, building of competence • Operating costs and investments of municipalities’ sports Intrinsic value of physical activity and its sports facilities, sports training centres, research for all services, physical activity in municipalities’ strategies instrumental value in supporting education, and communities of the sector, high-performance • Creative, learning and inclusion; sport and physical activity sports, active lifestyles, equality and non- • Number of those involved in civic participation related to inquiry-based discrimination as well as international activities) physical activity/population as part of a meaningful life. and responsible action that • Promotion of physical activity, physical activity • Measures that increase physical activity in early renews society in early childhood education and care, general childhood education and care, basic education and education, vocational education and training, higher secondary level education BASIC INFORMATION • Equal education and research; students’ physical activity opportunities • Physical activity in higher education institutions’ strategies Responsibilities • Promotion of physical activity as part of youth work for a • Number of those with a degree in sports and exercise (1) Early childhood education and care, (2) education and meaningful life • Promotion of creative and expressive sports, fields, the volume and quality of research training, (3) financial aid for students, (4) science, (5) art including circus, dance and parkour • Non-discrimination and equality plans in organisations and culture, (6) copyrights, (7) sport and physical activity, • Dissemination of information about sport and promoting physical activity and discrimination in sport (8) youth work, (9) libraries, and (10) religious affairs. physical activity at libraries and physical activity
Budget RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT NEEDS (DETERMINED BY THE NATIONAL €6.69 billion / 12% of the Government budget (2018). KEY LEGISLATION SPORTS COUNCIL) Estimated direct contributions: • Constitution of Finland • Population´s physical inactivity and polarisation in Personnel • Central government appropriations for • Act and Decree on the Promotion sports and physical activity Approximately 260 employees at the Ministry and 2,500 sport and physical activity €173.4 million of Sports and Physical Activity • Status of physical activity as a basic public service employees in the administrative branch in total. (2018) • UN Convention on the Rights of provided by municipalities Estimated indirect contributions: Persons with Disabilities, Non- • Promoting an operating culture with a positive Key agencies and institutions of the Discrimination Act, Act on Equality • Promotion of sport and physical attitude towards physical activity at all stages between Women and Men administrative branch activity is integrated in numerous other from early childhood education and care to higher National Archives, National Audiovisual Institute, Institute appropriations and grants of the Ministry • Early Childhood Education and education institutions of Education and Culture, including central Care Act, Basic Education Act, for the Languages of Finland, National Board of Antiquities, • Accessibility of physical activity environments, government transfers to local government General Upper Secondary Schools Celia – the national centre for accessible literature repair backlog and lack of exercise facilities in the and discretionary government transfers Act, Vocational Education and busiest areas and publishing in Finland, Finnish National Agency for for early childhood education and care, Training Act, Polytechnics Act, Education, Matriculation Examination Board, central primary and lower secondary education, Universities Act and Act on Liberal • Equality, non-discrimination and ethics in sport, government’s educational institutions, Student Financial morning and afternoon activities, schools’ Adult Education exercise and physical activity club activities, vocational education Aid Appeal Board, Academy of Finland, Arts Promotion and training, liberal adult education and • Youth Act • Cross-administrative promotion, coordination and Centre, Central Arts Council and national arts councils as municipalities’ youth work as well as • Local Government Act, Municipal impact assessment of sport and physical activity well as the Regional State Administrative Agencies and central government transfers for higher Cultural Activities Act and • Fragmentation of information relevant to sport and Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the education institutions’ activities (cannot Associations Act physical activity, insufficient knowledge base and be quantified). Environment in tasks related to education services. • Land Use and Building Act utilisation of information in policy-making REPORTS FROM MINISTRIES ON PROMOTING SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN FINLAND
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Objectives Measures Key performance indicators
• Responsible and renewing food • Promoting the recreational use of • Visitor numbers to hiking areas system nature, active nature hobbies and • Number of participants in free-time fishing, nature tourism as well as research INTEREST IN PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY • Renewing and sustainable hunting, and berry and mushroom picking Promoting the viability of rural areas, human wellbeing natural resources economy • Projects promoting physical activity in • Numbers of hunting and fishing permits the Rural Development Programme for (especially in rural areas) and sustainable use of natural • Wide range of business activities Mainland Finland and 4H activities • Number of Rural Development Fund resources. and successful rural areas, projects aiming to promote sport and multilocality and networks • Promotion of the equine industry and physical activity and their value in euros equestrian sports • Reliable geospatial, real estate BASIC INFORMATION • Number of participants in equestrian sports and housing company data with • Development of natural resources, real Responsibilities a broad range of uses estate and geospatial data (including • Number of equine industry companies, jobs (1) Agriculture and horticulture, (2) rural development, maps and map services for sport and created and turnover (3) forestry, (4) fisheries, game management and reindeer physical activity) husbandry, (5) food, (6) safety and quality of production goods for agriculture; animal health and welfare and plant health, (7) land survey, and (8) water supply. RESOURCES KEY LEGISLATION DEVELOPMENT NEEDS (DETERMINED BY THE NATIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL) Estimated direct contributions: • Act on Support for Rural Budget Development • Fragmented administration and lack of • Rural Development Fund support for coordination in outdoor exercise and recreational €2.7 billion / 4.8% of the Government budget (2018). projects aiming to promote physical activity, • Government decree on use of nature approx. €10–12 million/year (total of public support for rural project Personnel financing) activities • Participation in hunting and fishing (number of The Ministry has around 250 employees, while the participants and times participated), as well as • Allocation to Metsähallitus for promoting • Act on Metsähallitus administrative branch has around 4,200 in total (2019). the ageing and gender division of participants the recreational use of nature and nature • Fishing Act tourism, € 5.8 million (2019) • Promoting regional equality in physical activity Key agencies and institutions of the administrative • Hunting Act services and possibilities branch • Budget item financing for Wildlife Service Finland EUR 0.55 million/year • Sporadic offer of nature tourism services, Finnish Food Authority, Natural Resources Institute Finland, customer-oriented marketing, and inconsistency Estimated indirect contributions: National Land Survey of Finland, Finnish Wildlife Agency, and inadequacy of the knowledge base Metsähallitus, Finnish Forestry Centre, Finnish Environment • Government support for 4H activities • Safeguarding the operating conditions for diverse €3.9 million (2019) Institute and the Centres for Economic Development, equine industry and equestrian sports as well as Transport and the Environment. • For promoting the equine industry possibilities for participation €40.2 million (2019) • Development of information production, • For land survey and data warehouses (incl. compilation and sharing as well as different maintenance and development of geospatial services related to outdoor activities, recreational data and maps etc.), €55.6 million (2019) use of nature and active nature hobbies REPORTS FROM MINISTRIES ON PROMOTING SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN FINLAND
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• Legislation that enables the • Promoting and improving the • Modal split and traffic volumes of walking, INTEREST IN PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY development of new services conditions for walking and cycling cycling and public transport Sustainable mobility and wellbeing of people. (maintenance and building of • Maintaining wellbeing; creating • Lengths of cycle paths, winter maintenance pedestrian ways and cycle paths, sustainable growth and national of pedestrian ways and cycle paths mobility management etc.) competitive advantage through BASIC INFORMATION • Citizens’ satisfaction with conditions for innovative services • Developing public transport (also Responsibilities walking and cycling increases the use of active modes • Enabling the utilisation of data in (1) Mobility, communication and transport services, of travel) • Number of programmes, strategies and the development of new services (2) information security and data protection, utilisation similar for promoting cycling in municipalities and business • Televising sports events of societal of data, traffic safety and automation, and (3) transport significance • Cycling routes to key commercial services • Transport and communications and communications networks as well as energy and leisure activities networks that enable society’s and environmental issues related to transport and development and renewal • Fatalities and serious injuries sustained by communications. pedestrians and cyclists in road traffic
Budget
€3.5 billion / 6.2% of the Government budget (2018). RESOURCES KEY LEGISLATION DEVELOPMENT NEEDS (DETERMINED BY THE NATIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL) Estimated direct contributions: • Road Traffic Act Personnel • Developing the conditions and possibilities for sustainable and • Central government subsidies • Act on Transport Services The Ministry has around 140 employees, while the active modes of travel, compact cities and co-location of services for mobility management, administrative branch has around 2,200 in total (2018). • Act on the Traffic System €0.9 million (2018) • Accessibility of sports facilities and conditions for physical and Highways activity by means of sustainable modes of travel, developing Key agencies and institutions of the administrative • Investment aid for walking • Act on the Maintenance, mobility and physical activity with an integrated approach and cycling, €3.5 million branch Cleaning and Clearing of (2018) • Developing economic policy instruments that encourage Public Areas Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom, walking and cycling, for instance when commuting Estimated indirect contributions: Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency, Finnish • Land Use and Building Act • Developing resource allocations to walking and cycling and the Meteorological Institute, Traffic Management Finland • For maintenance and building • Information Society Code impact assessment of measures of pedestrian ways and cycle Group and Finnish Broadcasting Company, which is under and Government decree paths, approximately €38–43 • Accessibility level of public transport and sufficiency of the direct control of Parliament. on television and radio billion per year transport services, for example for leisure activities of persons operations with disabilities • Central government subsidies for promoting road • Promotion of digitalisation, automation and new mobility services traffic safety work EUR 9.1 • Including women’s most important high-level tournaments and million (2019) Paralympics in the list of televised sports events of societal significance REPORTS FROM MINISTRIES ON PROMOTING SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN FINLAND
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• A competitive Finland • Business and innovations in the physical • Turnover and job creation in the physical activity activity and wellbeing sector, sports and business • A renewing INTEREST IN PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY wellbeing tourism innovation system • Business support and financing received by physical Promoting growth and employment as well as the • Role of physical activity in the development of activity businesses (Finnvera and Centres for Economic working age population’s and immigrants’ functional • Positive development working life (wellbeing at work), integration of Development, Transport and the Environment) in employment, capacity and wellbeing. immigrants and non-military service unemployment and • Number of Structural Funds projects aiming to economic growth • Physical activity as part of regional promote sport and physical activity and their value development and projects aiming to promote in euros BASIC INFORMATION • Growing public physical activity financed from the European investments in • Adult population’s self-reported work ability in Responsibilities Union’s Structural Funds (European Regional energy technology relation to the physical requirements of work (1) Operating environment for entrepreneurship and Development Fund and European Social development innovation, (2) a well-functioning labour market Fund) • Supporting personnel’s physical activity and workers’ ability to find employment, (3) regional development, (4) energy policy, and (5) integration of RESOURCES KEY LEGISLATION DEVELOPMENT NEEDS (DETERMINED BY THE immigrants. NATIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL) Estimated direct contributions: • Occupational Safety and • Developing the knowledge base, • Support for sport and physical activity businesses, Health Act Budget statistics and anticipation of sport and €2.7 million (2018) • Act on the Promotion of €3.01 billion / 5.4% of the Government budget (2018). physical activity sector businesses • Support for innovation in sport and physical activity, approx. Immigrant Integration • Harmonising VAT rates in the sport and €3 million (estimate) Personnel • Act on Regional physical activity sector and developing Approximately 390 employees at the Ministry and 7,400 • Support for international operations of businesses in the field of Development and the them to support physical activity sport and physical activity, projects related to winter sports in National Management • Better identification of and support in the administrative branch in total. China and a pavilion at Tokyo Olympics 2020, €0.32 million (2019) of Structural Funds for business opportunities in the Key agencies and institutions of the administrative • As part of Tourism 4.0 action programme, €0.6 million Projects sport and physical activity sector, allocated to promoting sports tourism (2018–2019) strategic development of the sector branch • Non-Military Service Act • EU Structural Funds support for projects promoting sport and and investments in supporting Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the physical activity, approx. €14 million (2018) internationalisation Environment, TE Offices, Energy Authority, Geological • Special discretionary government transfer for supporting • Improving the status of physical activity Survey of Finland, National Emergency Supply Agency, immigrant integration in sports organisations, €0.15 million as part of developing wellbeing at work Business Finland, Finnish Competition and Consumer (2018) • Equal and non-discriminatory Agency, Finnish Patent and Registration Office, Finnish • Physical education and measures promoting physical activity accessibility of private sport and physical activity services for different Safety and Chemicals Agency, Finnvera, Tesi, VTT at the Centre for Non-Military Service, €0.1 million (estimate) population groups Technical Research Centre of Finland and Finnish Estimated indirect contributions: • Broad-based attention to physical Minerals Group. • Promotion of sport and physical activity through the Ministry’s activity and sport as part of regional other budget appropriations, such as financing sport and development and the EU’s Structural physical activity businesses (Finnvera), €23 million Funds programmes REPORTS FROM MINISTRIES ON PROMOTING SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN FINLAND
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• Active inclusion of • Intersectoral promotion of physical activity that • Proportions of those who accumulate the people promotes health and wellbeing (TEHYLI) recommended amount of physical activity in INTEREST IN PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY • Sport and physical activity as part of promoting different population and age groups • Integrated services Promoting people’s health and wellbeing. functional capacity and work ability (Funding Centre and benefits • Self-reported functional capacity restrictions for Social Welfare and Health Organisations STEA’s of children and young people as well as the grants for NGOs in the social and health care sector, • A safe and healthy adult population Finnish Institute of Occupational Health’s measures, BASIC INFORMATION living and working improvement of older persons’ functional capacity) environment • Adult population’s fitness in terms of Responsibilities • Sport and physical activity as part of lifestyle endurance and muscular strength; sedentary (1) Supporting health and welfare, (2) social and • Sustainable financing interventions, prevention and treatment of illnesses and behaviours and physical activity health services, (3) social insurance (pension, • Wellbeing in the face rehabilitation (physical activity counselling and service • Adult population’s self-reported work ability chains, education in sports and exercise medicine, health and unemployment insurance), (4) private of the transformation and coping at work until retirement research in the population’s physical activity levels etc.) of work insurance, (5) occupational health and safety and • Supporting personnel’s physical activity • Promotion of sport and physical activity as part of wellbeing at work, and (6) gender equality. social services (physical activity as part of housing and • Cross-administrative working groups on transport services, personal assistance etc.) promoting physical activity (in municipalities) Budget • Supporting incomes in the context of physical activity • Status of physical activity counselling in €14.83 billion / 27% of the Government budget (2018). and sport (incl. professional athletes’ social security) municipalities
Personnel
The ministry has around 440 employees, while the RESOURCES KEY LEGISLATION DEVELOPMENT NEEDS (DETERMINED BY THE NATIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL) total scope of the administrative branch is around Estimated direct contributions: • Constitution of Finland, Non- 3,500 person-years (2019, does not include the Discrimination Act and Act on • Making better use of physical activity as a • Annual support for the UKK Institute, €0.9 million tool in social welfare and health care Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare). Equality Between Women and Men • Support through an appropriation for health • Health Care Act and Social Welfare Act • Promoting sport and physical activity promotion for projects that include physical Key agencies and institutions of the as part of maintaining the working-age activity, €0.4 million/year (estimate) • Act on Supporting the Functional population’s functional capacity administrative branch Capacity of the Older Population and • Support for the Funding Centre for Social Welfare • Developing service chains for physical on Social and Health Services for Finnish Medicines Agency, National Supervisory and Health Organisations STEA, including physical activity counselling in cooperation with Older Persons Authority for Welfare and Health, Radiation activity, €14 million physical activity, social and health care • Act on Services and Assistance for actors in municipalities, occupational and Nuclear Safety Authority, Finnish Institute Estimated indirect contributions: health care services, NGOs and individual for Health and Welfare, Finnish Institute of the Disabled • Promotion of sport and physical activity is part of actors’ physical activity services Occupational Health, Social Security Appeal Board, • Act on Special Care for Persons with many other appropriations and grants of the Ministry • Promotion of sport and physical activity Alko Inc., Finnish Centre for Pensions, Social Intellectual Disabilities of Social Affairs and Health, including appropriations as part of social services, including Insurance Institution of Finland, Finnish Work for the activities of the Finnish Institute for • Occupational Health Care Act and sufficiency of transport and personal Health and Welfare and the Finnish Institute of Environment Fund and Employment Fund. Occupational Safety and Health Act assistant services for persons with Occupational Health as well as appropriations for disabilities as well as assistive devices for social services (cannot be quantified) participating in physical activity REPORTS FROM MINISTRIES ON PROMOTING SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN FINLAND
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Objectives Measures Key performance indicators
• Sustainable urban • Promotion of outdoor activities, recreational use of • Participation in outdoor activities by activity group nature, nature-based tourism, everyman´s right as development • Modal split and traffic volumes of walking and cycling INTEREST IN PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY well as research • Average length of commutes and cycling routes to A high level of human welfare in a healthy • A good environment • Steering of land use planning and participating in key services environment. and diverse nature the development of transport systems and mobility • Number of recreation and hiking areas, their surface • Directing the planning of construction (incl. • A carbon-neutral areas and accessibility circular economy construction of accessible facilities for physical activity) • Number of visits to nature conservation areas, BASIC INFORMATION society distance covered using active modes of travel, and • Direction of housing (incl. living environments that Responsibilities the mode of transport support older persons’ mobility) (1) Communities and land use, (2) the built • Number of accessible nature trails • Nature conservation (indirectly creates possibilities environment, (3) housing, (4) nature conservation, for outdoor activities, recreational use of nature • Accessibility of the living environment and sports biodiversity and sustainable use of natural and active nature hobbies) facilities resources, and (5) environmental protection. • Environmental protection (physical activity as a • Energy consumption of swimming pools and ice way of mitigating climate change; emissions from hockey rinks Budget physical activity) • Sustainable use of nature attractions €0.18 billion / 0.3% of the Government budget (2018).
Personnel RESOURCES KEY LEGISLATION DEVELOPMENT NEEDS (DETERMINED BY THE NATIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL) The Ministry has around 240 employees, while Estimated direct contributions: • Outdoor Recreation Act the administrative branch has around 800 in total • Developing the administration, coordination, cooperation, • Allocation for the recreational and • Act on Metsähallitus communication, resource allocations and strategic approach (2019). tourism use of nature (Metsähallitus), related to outdoor activities and the recreational use of nature €14.1 million/year • Land Use and Building Act • Paying more attention to sufficient, accessible and high- Key agencies and institutions of the • Research and development projects • Land Use and Building quality recreation areas and nature attractions in land use and administrative branch on the recreational use of nature etc., Decree zoning, and using sustainable modes of transport to access approx. €80,000/year services and sports facilities Finnish Environment Institute, Housing Finance • Nature Conservation Act • Discretionary grants to municipalities for • Taking into account the needs of active modes of travel, and Development Centre of Finland. Through • Environmental Protection purchases of recreation areas €100,000/ developing the conditions for them, and developing mobility its work, the ministry also guides the Centres year Act and physical activity as a whole for Economic Development, Transport and the Estimated indirect contributions: • Water Act • Improving the accessibility of living environments and Environment, the Regional State Administrative • Indirect promotion of the recreational preconditions for physical activity as well as building up Agencies and Parks & Wildlife Finland. knowledge and understanding use of nature and physical activity, for example through the operating expenses • Providing more sports facilities in areas of high demand and of the Ministry of the Environment and developing diversity and flexibility many authorities working in conjunction • Building up the knowledge base and understanding of the with it (cannot be quantified) environmental impacts of physical activity Reports from Ministries on Promoting Sport and Physical Activity Activity in Finland
Only a small number of Finnish people engage in The National Sports Council has prepared the Reports sufficient physical activity to keep them healthy. from Ministries on Promoting Sport and Physical Activity Physical inactivity not only affects individuals’ in cooperation with the different ministries. The reports wellbeing and quality of life but also has large-scale describe each ministry’s interest, objectives, measures, impacts on different sectors of society (including resources, indicators, key legislation and essential social and health care expenditure, work ability and development areas related to promoting sport and military performance). physical activity. An attempt has been made to use concepts compatible with each administrative branch’s Physical inactivity is a multidimensional societal specific terminology in the reports. Responsibility for the phenomenon which does not respect the boundaries information and views presented in the reports rests with of administrative branches. The central government the National Sports Council. The reports were published consists of 12 ministries, including the agencies in June 2019. and institutes subordinate to them. In practice, the decisions and actions of all ministries influence The reports seek to build understanding and knowledge the population’s engagement in sport and physical of different administrative branches’ actions and activity. Should we really wish to intervene in the interests in promoting sport and physical activity. population’s physical inactivity, social, health care, Additionally, they create preconditions for the National education, environmental and transport policy Sports Council’s increasingly extensive tasks of instruments alike will be needed. evaluating government´s measures related to sport and physical activity.
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