Impact

We assess the impact and outcomes of learning services that have been financed by us. This helps us in developing our operations and in increasing their transparency. Advancing continuous learning in Finland in general is at the core of our impact assessment.

We assess our impact from four mutually related perspectives:

1. SECLE's objectives and role as an organisation with a strong working life orientation, advancing the skills development of working-age people and the availability of skilled labour
2. The clarity and functionality of funding processes, as well as the support offered throughout the entire life cycle of projects
3. The cost-effectiveness of funded competence services
4. The impact of SECLE's trainings on participants' future decisions on training, professional transitions, labour market outcomes and incomes.

Since 2022, over 150 education providers have organised training funded by SECLE. Over 35 000 students have already participated in these trainings. 

The main objective of our operations is to impact society in a way that enables competent labour to enter the labour market, as well as working-age people to develop their skills on the side of work and life in general.

To reach this main objective, we have defined more detailed ones:

• We recognise acute skills needs and gaps based on foresight data.
• We fund training that corresponds to skills needs and can be completed by adults on the side of work.
• Our operations are working life oriented.
• As a financier of competence services, our operations are convincing, and the related processes functional.
• Our financing processes are clear in communication, and their objectives can be easily understood.
• Competence services financed by us are carried out according to plan and students consider the trainings to be useful and of good quality.
• We fund cost-effective and impactful training of good quality, as well as student recruitment, which can be put to good use in society at large.

We regularly assess the impact and cost-effectiveness of our operations through keeping up with the plan for assessment of impact, published in March 2023.

We assess the success of our outcomes in many different ways:

• Monitoring systems: Through our own monitoring systems, we assess feedback from students, as well as the impact and cost-effectiveness of training and student recruitment funded by us. Impact and cost-effectiveness can be measured by comparing completed training and the number of participants with the amount of funding granted.
• In addition, we monitor for example to which degree students in training funded by us have continued their studies, or whether or not participation in training has had an impact on persons' professional transitions or incomes. Monitoring is carried out through data available from different registers and other data systems.
• Feedback: We regularly ask for feedback from our central partners and interest groups, as well as from providers of competence services funded by us. We collect feedback on the success of our operations, as well as concerning the quality and functionality of funding processes.

We measure regularly the impact and cost-effectiveness of our procurements and discretionary government grants.

Central data sources in our impact assessment are:

• data collected about students
• data on completed study units
• education provider-specific curricula
• data on funding.

Additionally, we use feedback from students, working life organisations, and other central interest groups as tools in assessing the quality of operations. We monitor the direct results of our operations by using the Incomes Register maintained by The Finnish Tax Administration.

For more information, please refer to the Finnish or Swedish version of this page. 

This page has been updated on the 23rd of September 2026.