Growth and Internationalisation
An event for companies in Central Finland focusing on partnerships that support international growth and help businesses reach skilled talent.
Join an event for companies in Central Finland and learn how exports can be accelerated through the right partnerships and what kinds of services are available to support international growth and help you reach skilled talent.
During the morning, you will hear inspiring examples of local companies’ journeys to international markets as well as experts’ perspectives on solutions that promote exports.
In the afternoon, you can choose whether to continue the day with export and export financing themes or move over to skills-related topics to reflect on language challenges related to internationalisation in a workshop.
Time has been reserved for networking during breakfast and lunch, and you will also have the opportunity to talk with experts from the organising organisations on site. The event will be held in Finnish.
Programme and schedule:
8.00 Morning Market – a tasty networking breakfast
9.00 Welcome words and introduction to the day
- Centre for Vitality & Team Finland network
- Federation of Finnish Enterprises: results from the SME export survey
9.30 Three internationalisation stories from Central Finland
- The companies will be published later
10.45 Introduction to the afternoon programme: Language Monster & Export
11.00 Networking and self-paid lunch
After lunch, you can choose between two different programme options:
12.00 Taming the Language Monster
- How are the language skills, employment and expertise of foreign-language speakers visible in our region?
- What kinds of support, solutions and good practices already exist?
- How can we make it easier for employers, work communities and international talents to meet?
12.00 Export Afternoon – from Central Finland to the world
Export knowledge
Team Finland, Finnvera and export financing
Grow your business in Germany – German-Finnish Chamber of Commerce
2.00 PM Official programme ends – afternoon coffee, stands open
3.00 PM Event ends
Register by 20 September 2026. Participation is free of charge.
The event is organised in cooperation with: Centre for Vitality of Central Finland, Central Finland Chamber of Commerce, Work in Finland, Finnvera, Vierko project, Future Labour Markets.