Worklife University

One objective of the Promotion of Worklife Ability Network Organisation according to its vision is to establish a Worklife University. The university will enhance the Tampere region's profile as a national and international centre of worklife ability, thus increasing the region’s attraction, well-being and competitiveness. At present there is no university specialised in worklife issues in Finland.

Establishment of the University
The Worklife University is being planned by the Promotion of Worklife Ability Network Organisation, whose consultative committee unanimously proposes the establishment of the university. The consultative committee has representatives of the “cloverleaf” parties, that is, workplaces, authorities, organisations and most prominent institutions offering worklife-related education.

The consultative committee finds it important that the operation of the Worklife University will be coordinated by the Promotion of Worklife Ability Network and take place in the form of a novel multichannel cooperation that the network organisation with its diversified expertise already represents. In the opinion of the consultative committee, a worklife university based on the Promotion of Worklife Ability Network and its principles provides an excellent opportunity to centralise presently scattered resources and gear them towards the development of ability and future competitiveness in a constantly globalising economy.

Through its networked operation the Worklife University will ensure interactive university-level education and research closely related to worklife as well as their continued development with due consideration to the actual needs of different parties and work organisations involved at any given moment.

The Project is Advancing
To promote its goal the network organisation has on 25 October 2006 submitted a project plan to the Council of Tampere Region on the launching of charting work for the Worklife University without delay. The project plan does not aim at establishing a new institution but systematic utilisation and coordination of diverse existing worklife-related expertise and creation of new abilities. Thus the project is primarily concerned with the qualitative, operative and structural development of education and the promotion of the region’s ability profile.

The 2007 – 2008 realisation plan of the Regional Programme for the Tampere region perceives that a central role in the development of the region is played by projects aimed at the development of worklife ability and work communities, such as the charting work for the establishment of worklife university.

Pages updated on 11.4.2007 •

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