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11.3.2025 | Sandra Bergqvist, Minister of Youth, Sport and Physical Activity will be travelling with the Finnish Paralympic Committee to Italy and visit the Special Olympics World Winter Games for athletes with disabilities between 12 and 14 March 2025.

12.11.2025 | The Sports Ministers of 33 countries and the European Commission have expressed their grave concern about the decision of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) in September to discontinue the partial suspensions of the National Paralympic Committees of Belarus and Russia from the Paralympic Games.

29.11.2019 | China-Finland Year of Winter Sports Closing Ceremony will take place at Lappi Areena in Rovaniemi on 3 December 2019. First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Tuula Haatainen, Minister of Science and Culture Hanna Kosonen and Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China Sun Chunlan will be attending the celebrations.

3.12.2019 | China-Finland Year of Winter Sports Closing Ceremony took place at Lappi Areena in Rovaniemi on 3 December 2019. Minister of Science and Culture Hanna Kosonen and Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan took part in the celebrations.

10.1.2019 | The year 2019 was designated as the China Finland Year of Winter Sports at the meeting of the Finnish and Chinese presidents in spring 2017. Finland is the first country with which China has agreed on this type of winter sports partnership. The thematic year and the preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing are expected to boost Chinese interest in Finnish winter sports expertise.

5.6.2023 | The responsibility for awarding government grants for sport science research will transfer from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture to the Academy of Finland. The amendment to Act on the Promotion of Sports and Physical Activity, which entered into force in February 2023, will simplify the application and review process by making it entirely the responsibility of a single organisation. To this end, the Academy of Finland will launch a new Academy Programme for sport science.

11.2.2021 | The Government has issued a decree amending the Decree on Audiovisual Services. The list of events of major importance for society that have to be broadcast on television will be updated to include those women's sports events that are equivalent to the men's events already on the list.

11.2.2021 | The Government has issued a decree amending the Decree on Audiovisual Services. The list of events of major importance for society that have to be broadcast on television will be updated to include those women's sports events that are equivalent to the men's events already on the list.

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13.6.2025 | The recipients of the 2025 State Award for Public Information have two things in common: they give a voice to those often left unheard and they challenge the status quo. Their work invites us to look at the world with curiosity, empathy and a critical eye.

4.1.2024 | The price of exchange electricity – the spot price of electricity sold on the power exchange – will rise to record levels on Friday 5 January 2024. Even at its lowest, the hourly changing price of electricity, including the Finnish value added tax, will be more than a euro per kilowatt-hour (kWh) between 6.00 and 21.00 and more than two euros between 15.00 and 20.00.

14.6.2022 | The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) met on 6-10 June 2022. At the remote meeting, guidelines were adopted to specify the short-term emissions reduction measure negotiated already in June 2021. The measure aims at improving the energy efficiency of existing ships and at limiting their carbon intensity.

14.6.2022 | The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) met on 6-10 June 2022. At the remote meeting, guidelines were adopted to specify the short-term emissions reduction measure negotiated already in June 2021. The measure aims at improving the energy efficiency of existing ships and at limiting their carbon intensity.

24.8.2020 | Speech by Permanent State Secretary Matti Anttonen at the annual meeting of Heads of Mission 2020 Ministry for Foreign Affairs Publication date 24.8.2020 9.28 Type: Speech Distinguished Ministers, Heads of Mission, Colleagues Welcome to the first ...

10.1.2019 | Finland och Kina utsåg 2019 till gemensamt temaår för vintersport när ländernas presidenter möttes våren 2017. Finland är det första land som Kina avtalat om ett vintersportsamarbete med i form av ett gemensamt temaår. Temaåret samt förberedelserna för vinter-OS i Peking 2022 antas öka intresset för Finlands kunnande inom vintersport.

10.1.2019 | Vuosi 2019 nimettiin Suomen ja Kiinan väliseksi talviurheilun teemavuodeksi maiden presidenttien tapaamisessa keväällä 2017. Suomi on ensimmäinen maa, jonka kanssa Kiina on sopinut teemavuoden kaltaisesta talviurheiluyhteistyöstä. Teemavuoden ja Pekingin vuoden 2022 talviolympialaisiin valmistautumisen uskotaan lisäävän Kiinan kiinnostusta suomalaiseen talviurheiluosaamiseen.

3.12.2019 | Avslutningsfesten för Finlands och Kinas gemensamma temaår för vintersport ordnades i Rovaniemi den 3 december 2019. Forsknings- och kulturminister Hanna Kosonen och Kinas vice premiärminister Sun Chunlan deltog i avslutningen.

3.12.2019 | Suomi-Kiina talviurheilun teemavuoden päättäjäisiä vietettiin Rovaniemellä 3. joulukuuta 2019. Tiede-ja kulttuuriministeri Hanna Kosonen ja Kiinan varapääministeri Sun Chunlan osallistuivat päättäjäisiin.