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Issues to be discovered via the survey: of the municipality. Kultti utilised early open
ff Are the new inhabitants of Rovaniemi familiar co-operation in its joint workshop days.

with the cultural offerings of the city? Proposals:
ff Do they use the cultural services as much as ff The network for work with immigrants in the

those who have lived in the area longer? cultural sector will continue its co-operation
ff Do they feel that they are equally with the network coordinators. The members
of the network will become familiar with the
included in the cultural life? methods and the service. They are also able
ff Do immigrants participate in the planning to use the service in their own activities.
ff New inhabitants of Rovaniemi participate in the
and assessment of cultural services? training in the method offered by VAY (“Varhainen
ff Are there immigrants involved in the AvoinYhteistyö”, early open co-operation).
ff The network offers the actors joint
associations in the cultural sector? continuing education events on subjects
ff Does the number of immigrants and members that they have difficulties with.

of language minorities in the jobs in the cultural
sector correspond to their number in the area?
ff How do the people becoming integrated
evaluate the effectiveness of cultural methods?

The actors evaluate the effectiveness
of their work openly

Actors committed to the cultural sector integration
programme evaluate the realisation of the programme
in their own annual and financial reports. It is
important that each part of the network sees the
evaluation as a method of improving the activities, not
as a tool for punishment or reward.

Proposals:
ff The importance of assessments by the target

groups or their representatives is highlighted. The
actor’s self-assessment is only a part of the whole.
ff The actors develop methods for collecting feedback
and share them with each other; the methods
take people with weak spoken Finnish language
skills and those who are illiterate into account.
ff The Leisure Board co-operates with the
University of Lapland or another higher
education institution in order to investigate
the effects of culture on well-being.

Methods for working on points causing
friction are available to the actors

Rovaniemi has used the operating model of early open
co-operation since 2001. The method is used in, for
example, resolving situations causing worry in the
social services sector or at schools. The methods are
also suitable for use in network activities and projects
that cross over sector divisions. The services of the
network coordinators are intended for supporting
dialogue among all the inhabitants and employees

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