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The actors meet regularly
in joint planning days
Kultti arranged two joint workshop days for the actors
in the cultural sector working with immigrants. The
goal of the meetings was to create common goals
and generate ideas for co-operation, and to start the
network. In the future, the meetings between the
actors can be shorter, but they should nevertheless
be held at least twice a year. Meeting face to face and of the municipality, and how large a sum of money it
generating ideas support the creation of goal-oriented
partnerships.
Proposals:
ff The members of the network take turns to
convene the meeting. At each meeting, an
agreement is made on which party or parties
are responsible for organising the next meeting.
The convener applies to the Leisure Board for
funding for the costs of the workshop day.
ff In the meetings, it will also be possible to use the
early open co-operation network coordinators
of the City of Rovaniemi. At the Kultti meetings,
the coordinator has been responsible for the
methods of working on things together and
running the day together with the conveners.
Good ideas turn into practice quickly
All parties have a lot of good ideas for developing
cultural work that promotes integration. The
partnerships bring different kinds of competence
together, opening channels of implementation for
ideas. Among the network, it is also good to share the
know-how that each actor has collected, or to ask for
help with problems.
Proposals:
ff The cultural producers and the Regional Office
of Lapland of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland
will collect information on the Rovaniemi.fi/
kulttuuri website about who can help, for example,
with acquiring project funding or facilities.
ff The Leisure Board awards small
targeted grants year-round.
ff The financiers do not hesitate to support new
kinds of experiments and new actors. The actors
have the courage to try new kinds of partnerships
or divisions of work over the sector divisions.
The service orders are negotiated
in a spirit of openness
The survey by Kultti shows that the largest actors
in the cultural sector in Rovaniemi are interested in
working with immigrants, and they have experience
with it as well as ideas for developing their activities.
On the other hand, the Leisure Board knows what
kinds of services it wants to secure for the inhabitants
can use. The experiential knowledge of both parties
can be used best when they listen to each other and
respect each other in the agreement negotiations.
Proposals:
ff Before the agreement negotiations, the
service providers describe how they would
organise the special services, and what kind
of resources each service would need.
ff The Leisure Board and the Cultural Director
describe their qualitative goals for different
age groups and special groups. For example, if
the goal is that the cultural services integrate
immigrants, it is important that the immigrants
use cultural services together with the majority
population and not just as separately organised
groups. In this case, the numerical goal cannot be
the number of events arranged for immigrants
or the number of immigrant participants,
because it is not possible to record statistics like
this in a way that helps to realise the goal.
ff In negotiations, these points of view are adjusted
together so that the implementation method
meets the qualitative goals and can be achieved
with the resources defined in the agreement.
ff The parties determine the assessment
and monitoring methods together; the
methods are equal for the different actors
and reveal the qualitative realisation of the
goals. The higher education institutions have
expertise in studying the effects of culture
on well-being. This is worth utilising.
ff The parties see the assessment as a tool
for development, not as a way to give
punishments or rewards. This increases the
accuracy and usability of the assessments.
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