Education! Culture! Civic action!
The Citizens’ Forum is a nationwide study centre that inspires cultural and civic activities.
We support active citizenship through communal and arts-based learning and offer you the opportunity to develop yourself through culture, art and joint activities.
Learn new things, harness your creativity and be encouraged to act!
Support for education
The Citizens’ Forum supports the educational activities of its member organisations and their local associations. When you need financial support for organising training, tips for developing teaching or support for deepening the professional skills of trainers, we can help.
Funding for courses for immigrants
If your association is a member of one of Citizens’ Forum’s member organisations you can apply special for funding for courses for immigrants who are registered residents of Finland.
Course calendar
Come to the Citizens’ Forums courses and become inspired about cultural and civic activities! Our courses are aimed at NGO actors.
No open courses in English.
Events
We organise cultural events, seminars and discussions, and participate in the production of events for our member organisations.
News
Resources
Our publications provide up-to-date and practical information on, for example, organisational activities, civil society, art-based learning, and functional learning methods.
Study centre
Together with our member organisations, we offer you the opportunity to develop yourself through culture, art, and joint activities.
Together with our members, we organise approximately 23.000 hours of training annually. Approximately 6.300 hours of study are spent in communal study groups. There are approximately 17.000 participants each year.
We operate nationwide. Our head office is in Helsinki and regional offices in Oulu and Tampere. We also organise training in our training space in Sörnäinen, Helsinki.
Member organisations
Our membership consists of 8 national organizations with approximately 1.500 local associations. Tens of thousands of people are involved in their activities.
- Kanteleliitto
- Moniheli
- Suomen Harrastajateatteriliitto
- Suomen Kansanmusiikkiliitto
- Suomen Kuvataidejärjestöjen Liitto
- Suomen Nuorisoseurat
- Suomen Nuorisosirkusliitto
- Suomen Puhallinorkesteriliitto