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ff The actors in Rovaniemi assess their practices ff The actors in the cultural sector offer their
in relation to other cities. They look for ideas
on both the national and international levels.
ff The actors in the cultural sector will join the
MaKo (Immigration and integration) network for
Lapland, which is maintained by the ELY Centre
for Lapland. Through the network, they will receive
information about work with immigrants and
integration in other sectors and on the state level.
2.3. The activities are
planned together
It is easy to commit to common goals when the
goals and methods have been formed together. The
expertise of different actors can be used best during
the planning phase. Parties performing cultural work
that promotes integration act openly, discussing issues
and becoming excited by different points of view.
The planning always includes
an expert by experience
Whenever the cultural sector plans activities for a
special group, a member of the target group should
be included in the planning at an as early stage
as possible. The larger the organisation or project
involved, the more important this is. The actors must
already be familiar with the representatives of the
different target groups, or they must know how to
contact them.
Proposals:
ff The associations in the cultural sector will actively
try to recruit immigrants and representatives of
linguistic and cultural minorities as their members.
ff The financiers, such as the City of Rovaniemi,
the ELY Centre and the Citizens’Forum require
expertise by experience in the working plans
for activities targeted at special groups, and
they take the possible additional costs caused
by this into account in their funding decisions.
ff The purchasers of applied cultural services require
in their tender procedures and co-operation
agreements that the representatives of the
target groups participate in the planning
and implementation of the activities.
ff The actors employ immigrants in expert
tasks and as trainers, as well as for training
members of the majority population.
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experts by experience continuing education and
courses that help with understanding the cultural
production in Finnish society, funding models,
project planning and duties, among other things.
ff The cultural actors invite new inhabitants
of Rovaniemi to tell about their experiences
and to evaluate cultural services, for example
via the Arctic Immigrants association,
MoniNet or the Immigration Office.
ff The actors take into account that the immigrants
are individuals. No individual can represent all
people, even if he or she can bring his or her
own expertise into the discussion. Therefore,
views of several different parties are needed.
The work of customer panels continues
The customer panels are a compact method of
receiving diverse experiential knowledge about the
success of services and development needs. Kultti
started the work of a customer panel consisting of
immigrants. The discussions by the panel generated
views that are very important to the development
of integration. During Kultti, some problems with
panel work were also found. In the future, the cultural
organisations themselves will be responsible for the
work of the panel.
Proposals:
ff The Kultti employees will write up a final
assessment of the panel work. It will be
published on the project website.
ff The network of actors will investigate in
what kind of issues it needs experiential
knowledge and agree on the division of duties
of the panel work among its members.
ff The panel’s organisers will announce the panels
publicly. They will create partnerships with
immigrant and cultural minority associations
and organisations assisting with integration.
ff The actors in the cultural sector will introduce
the experiential knowledge received from the
panels into the planning of their activities and
inform the panel about the effects of its work.
ff The municipal decision-makers and political
actors will occasionally participate in the panels.