National youth work and youth policy programme 2024–2027

The National Youth Work and Youth Policy Programme is a horizontal programme, which the Government adopts every four years with the aim of promoting a good environment for young people to grow up and live. In the Programme, the Government defines its youth policy objectives and the measures to achieve them. The Programme also outlines youth work policy decisions, including the priorities determining the selection of national centres of excellence in the youth sector for this programme period, and sets Finland’s national objectives for European and international activities in the youth sector.

The Programme has been adopted as a government resolution. The Youth Act (1285/2016) forms the Programme’s legislative basis. Provisions on the Programme are laid down in section 5 of the Act and supplemented by the Government Decree on Youth Work and Youth Policy (211/2017). This Programme is the third of its kind.

In addition to the Youth Act and the Government Decree issued on the basis of it, the programme content is guided by the Government Programme’s entries on young people. The 2024–2027 Programme is structured under the theme of using broad-based measures across administrative boundaries to improve the wellbeing of young people. With the help of the Programme, the Government strengthens the cross-administrative management of the measures improving young people’s wellbeing.