Current affairs

An EU twinning light project led by Finland was launched in Zagreb on 5 March 2015. The purpose of this project is to improve the institutional and administrative capacity of the National School for Public Administration [NSPA]. This is Finland's 16th twinning project with Croatia. Overall Finland has led over 170 twinning projects all over Europe, however, Croatia is a very important partner for one reason: Finland does not have this many twinning projects with any other country in the world.

A group of students from Katarina Zrinksi high school recently visited the Embassy. They were introduced to the complex and demanding role that mediators play in resolving real life conflicts and put their knowledge to the test in a game where they had to resolve a conflict.

Several female tech entrepreneurs are household names in Finland, and more are on the way up. We meet two of them.

Sibelius’s 150th birthday: Find out how the composer’s own piano sounds, and what he and heavy metal have in common.

The 150th anniversary of composer Jean Sibelius’s birth is celebrated in 2015 with events in Finland and around the world.

With so many delicious Finnish Christmas dishes, we asked our FB readers to list their favourites. See how it turned out!

We look at one of Finland’s most inspiring celebrations: Independence Day (Dec 6). Say it in Finnish: Itsenäisyyspäivä.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari helps achieve a truce between the Angry Birds and the Bad Piggies (see video).

With Kiasma and the Helsinki Art Museum closed for renovations, we set out to discover some of the city’s other gems.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs is making changes to Finland’s network of diplomatic missions as part of the central government’s savings. The changes arise from decisions to cut the Ministry’s appropriations for operating expenses. The embassies of Finland in Luxembourg, Bratislava (Slovakia) and Ljubljana (Slovenia) will be closed by the end of 2015.