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Grant for employment-oriented workshop activities

The grant for employment-oriented workshop activities for workshops in Hämeenlinna for the year 2027 can be applied for between 6.10. and 30.10.2026. The application period ends on 30.10.2026 at 15:00.

Applications are submitted electronically using the e-form of the City of Hämeenlinna (in Finnish).

Description of the workshop activities

The aim of the workshop activities is to support jobseekers’ working life skills, life management and future planning. The activities must emphasise working life orientation, with the goal of ensuring that jobseeking clients receive employment coaching from the early stages of unemployment. The target group consists of jobseeking clients from Hämeenlinna. The service provider is free to deliver the service in a so-called outreach-based workshop or at a physical workshop. The grant for workshop activities supports the strategic goals of the City of Hämeenlinna.

After the workshop activities, participating clients will find employment with another employer, move into education or a work trial, complete their studies or find another solution to replace unemployment. When necessary, the activities also include assessments of work ability.

The activities consist of coaching, and the content meets both the need of employment-enhancing activities of the city and the individual needs of employment of the residents. This service combines the jobseeker’s goals with, for example, a work trial, competence development (including training agreements and apprenticeships), studying (completing studies), part-time work, entrepreneurship trials or coaching. The aim is to speed up employment and promote job retention in accordance with work ability. During a work trial, training agreement, apprenticeship or part-time work, the jobseeker receives group and individual coaching that helps them adapt to working life and develops their working life skills.

Workshops provide coaching to strengthen clients’ working life skills and job-seeking abilities, helping them enter the workforce. Through the coaching provided at the workshop, clients are supported in planning and implementing their own work and study paths, and tailored solutions are built to achieve each client’s personal goals. The duration of the workshop is a maximum of 6 months. The activities include support for learning the Finnish language as needed and promotes the development of a diverse working life in the region.

The workshop provides learning environments for the Hämeenlinna residents that are unemployed jobseekers or at risk of dropping out of their studies. The referring party (educational institution), together with the workshop activity provider, is responsible for planning the studies. The workshop environment also offers internships included in studies as well as work experience learning periods (TET), which are announced on the TyöHäme website (subject to criminal record checks, etc.).

Workshop activities include

  • A personal coaching plan, including duration and objectives of coaching. At the end of the coaching period, a clear follow-up plan is written down on the e-form.
  • Functional mapping of competence: strengths, working life skills, observation of learning ability, and the resulting work ability and change as part of the activity period: supporting the client’s self-efficacy regarding employment.
  • Introduction to, among other things, the rights and obligations of employees and employers, and the rules of the working life
  • Guidance for jobseeking and employment or entrepreneurship.
  • Career and study planning together with the career counsellors of TyöHäme; labour market knowledge, combining work trials and part-time employment/employment in labour-shortage sectors, and exploring income options during studies.
  • (The Finnish education system: getting familiar with work and education, applying and guidance)
  • Learning well-being skills and applying them in daily life
  • Working in either a workshop or employer operating environment. If the workshop provides transition support, guidance and advice in cooperation with another operator/employer, this is done as agreed with the employer. The TyöHäme Guarantee (TyöSuomi project cooperation) is promoted.
  • A certificate of participation at the end of the period, which the client can utilise in their future jobseeking.

Workshop coaching is developed in cooperation with Hämeenlinna Ohjaamo Stage and its network of operators, the employment services of the City of Hämeenlinna, and the employment services of TyöHäme Employment Area. The task of coaching is to ensure that job-seeking documents (a job application based on motivation and competence and a concise, clear and selling CV) are prepared with every participant.

The service verifies, among other things, the following:

  • Getting familiar with rules: Committing to agreed matters, taking responsibility for one’s own affairs, sticking to working hours, reporting absences, mobile phone use, occupational safety, initiative, manners, productivity and responsibility.
  • Social interaction skills and self-expression: Articulating one’s own competence, interview situations, answering the phone.
  • Wage awareness: Information on wage levels in different sectors and terms of employment. Work is a value in itself. Corporate social responsibility and social, economic and ecological responsibility, and a sustainable society.
  • A realistic picture of working life: Not all work is always fun – tolerating boredom and setbacks is an important skill.
  • Developing the ability to concentrate: Managing the use of smart devices and the ability to focus over the long term.
  • Young people with an immigrant background and increasing parents’ knowledge: They need special support in understanding the education and working life.
  • Cooperation with youth work and business associations.

Target group:

The clients of workshop activities are Hämeenlinna residents who are:

  • under 29 years of age, who do not have a vocational qualification, a job or a place of study (the service can begin immediately after registering as unemployed).
  • at risk of dropping out of their studies (still enrolled in an educational institution).
  • over 25 years of age (no upper age limit) who have been unemployed for more than 12 months. That is, those who have been unemployed for 201 days or more.

The grant is awarded based on overall consideration. This is a city grant for statutory workshop activities based on the criteria described in this notice. The amount of funds used for the grant is decided in connection with the budget. The size of the grant is affected by the number of clients participating in the workshop activities. The grant applicant must specify the size of the client quota in the application. The amount of grant applied for must be recorded on the application with justifications.

The action plan attached to the application must respond to the criteria for the grant for workshop activities precisely and concretely. If the applicant is unable to address the criteria in the action plan, the application may be rejected.

What should be included in the action plan:

  1. The action plan must describe the weekly programme.
  2. What kind of assignments are available for clients at the workshops, how the activities are tailored to the needs of clients and employers, and how employment is supported in practice.
  3. A concrete plan for cooperation with the educational institution, particularly regarding increasing the working life orientation of the students for whom school-based learning is challenging.
  4. Presence at employment events and participation in the role of a service provider.
  5. Active cooperation with employers, finding hidden jobs for clients.

Criteria for the grant for workshop activities

  • The workshop activities to be organised must be eligible for state grants.
  • The activity receiving the grant must support the strategy of the City of Hämeenlinna and the goals of the TyöHäme Employment Area.
  • A registered association, foundation or religious community based in Hämeenlinna may apply for the grant.
  • The applicant is required to provide a self-financing share or other active contribution to the implementation of the activity subject to the grant.
  • Grants are not awarded retrospectively for projects or costs that have already been realised.
  • The grant is year-specific. The grant must be used during the year for which it was awarded. Grants are awarded for the year 2027, with an option for 2028, which will be confirmed in September 2027.
  • The grant must be used for the purpose for which it was awarded.
  • A separate cooperation agreement will be made regarding the grant.
  • The grant will be paid after all attachments and the cooperation agreement have been delivered to the city.
  • The grant applicant commits to the city being entitled to audit the association’s accounts and operations.
  • The grant applicant commits to reporting on the content of the activities, the progress of the clients’ situations and the results to the city.
  • The grantor may recover the awarded grant if the recipient does not follow the instructions provided or if the planned activity is not implemented.
  • The activity being supported must comply with laws and regulations.
  • Grants are not awarded for activities that fall within the scope of public procurement legislation.
  • The activity must be goal-oriented, with a positive transition rate of at least 60%. Positive transitions include placement in the labour market, education, completing a partial qualification, becoming an entrepreneur or an apprentice, or other long-term solutions. To support employment, the TyöHäme employment subsidy, the Hämeenlinna Supplement, and Diverse Recruitment Support are offered. The starting point is that clients receive a solution that supports community spirit and is activity-based to replace unemployment.
  • The action plan must concretely describe the cooperation with educational institutions and companies, as well as the measures to resolve the process for those at risk of dropping out of their studies.
  • The work of clients participating in the workshop is also actively taken outside the workshop organiser to companies, where the workshop coaches act as job coaches in cooperation with the employer. The activity promotes the TyöHäme Guarantee.
  • The recipient of the support is responsible for ensuring that the activity is appropriate and that the activity complies with current laws (including the Employment Contracts Act, the Act on the Status and Rights of Social Care Clients), regulations and orders issued under them.
  • The grant recipient commits to cooperation with Hämeenlinna Ohjaamo Stage.
  • The grant recipient commits to developing activities (for example, park meals and summer street) in Hämeenlinna and/or the surrounding villages during the summers of 2027 and 2028 together with other operators.
  • The grant recipient commits to project cooperation with the City of Hämeenlinna in projects that promote activities in line with the goals of the city and the workshops.
  • If the grant recipient is interested in implementing entrepreneurship coaching for young people, the grant recipient commits to coordinating, developing, marketing, and utilising the Oma Firma Voucher as a part of supporting youth entrepreneurship and developing the entrepreneurship path of young people with the network.
  • The recipient of the support commits to reporting on their activities every 3 months. The report must cover quantitative, qualitative and activity perspectives. The reporting must show the result of the service, the number of people employed, the number of working days and follow-up measures.
  • The workshop activity has a steering group that meets regularly.
  • The recipient of the support collects client feedback from their clients as well as client stories for the communication purposes of the employment services. The recipient of the support commits to producing these client stories actively and independently for the city’s communications.
  • The placement of clients in education and working life after the workshop period is used as a part of the effectiveness evaluation of the workshop activities.
  • The grant recipient commits to actively marketing their own workshop activities to both clients and various cooperation partners. The grant recipient participates in client guidance in cooperation with the employment services of the City of Hämeenlinna,
  • the TyöHäme Employment Area and other operators in the region.
  • The recipient of the grant actively seeks suitable employers as cooperation partners for the activities and commits to the joint development of the sector with other workshop operators.

Read more

Explore the City Strategy of Hämeenlinna
Read more about the goals of the TyöHäme Employment Area

Contact information

Tea Roine

Procurement Specialist
Telephone
040 8093 177
Email
Tea.Roine@hameenlinna.fi
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Last updated 22.10.2026