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BioLöBö, Kalaheijastimet and ThriftySwipe are the Spring 2025 winners
The winners of the Spring Idea Competition of 2025 are creating a more sustainable future with ideas involving domestic biogas, environmentally friendly reflectors, and second-hand fashion.
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The President of Finland: “Through books, we may become acquainted with different cultures”
For the third time, the Children and Youth Foundation’s Read Hour Literacy Campaign challenges everyone in Finland to read for an hour on 8 September, the UN International Literacy Day. This year, the campaign will also take place in Sweden, Estonia and the United Kingdom. Through books, new worlds are opened up to us. We…
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The President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö: “At a time like this, the experiences delivered by reading and books are important”
The Children and Youth Foundation’s Reading Hour literacy campaign, which is being organised for the second time, challenges us to spend an hour with books on 8 September, UN International Literacy Day. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, we are living in exceptional times and our daily lives have changed in many ways. Especially at a…
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Only one in four young people consider reading cool – Read Hour challenges Finns to read for an hour on UN Literacy Day
“Literacy is celebrated in Finland at the turn of August-September. We are still one of the nations where people read a lot, but the latest PISA survey again raised concerns. As many as one in eight young people graduate from primary school without adequate reading skills and over 60 per cent of boys said they…
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