Updated 1.6.2026
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Program
Workshop 1: Future prospects for employment policies and -services in Denmark and Finland and the role of evaluations in developing such policies and services.
Helsinki 26.5.2026
Part 1: The Danish model – a model for Finland?
10:00-10:05 –Opening
10:05-10:45 – Heikki Räisänen & Johanna Alatalo (Ministry of employment and economic affairs):
How could Finland approach flexicurity type of labour market model? Comparative evidence from Denmark and other peer countries.
10:45-11:25 – Flemming Larsen (Aalborg university):
The “Danish model” – Current transitions and future prospects.
11:25-11:45 – Questions and comments from the audience
11:45-12:45 – Lunch break
Part 2: Policy evaluation and policy making in Denmark and Finland
12:45-13:25 – Niklas Andersen (Aalborg university):
The evaluation system of employment services in Denmark – development and role in policymaking.
13:25-13:55 – Santtu Sundvall (KEHA):
Monitoring, evaluation and knowledge-based management of PES in Finland after the municipalization reform.
13:55-14:15 – Hannu Karhunen (Labore):
Why We Cannot Measure What Works: Infrastructure Gaps in Employment Services
14:15-14:35 – Simo Aho (Tampere University):
Why and when evidence has (not) impact on policy making?
14:35-15:00 – Coffee break
Part 3: Discussion
15:00-16:00 – Panel discussion and comments and questions from audience
Workshop 2: Integrated, multisectoral and client-centered services for groups with low employability
Tampere 27.5.2026
12:00 – Opening
12:10-12:55 – Flemming Larsen (Aalborg university) and discussion:
Local innovation of employment services.
12:55-13:40 – Niklas Andersen (Aalborg university) and discussion:
The challenges and potentials of organizing and managing holistic and client-centered employment services.
13:40-14:00 – Coffee break
14:00-14:30 – Peppi Saikku & Sanna Blomgren (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare):
Local governance of welfare benefits and employment-related services: The formation of the new multisectoral cooperation model for employment (TYM)
14:30-15:00 – Minna van Gerven & Garima Singh (University of Helsinki):
Governance of employment in the times of data-driven (de)centralization: Case of current employment service reform in Finland
15:00-15:30 – Sami Lind, Satu Pyöriä & Antti Saloniemi (Tampere university):
Collaboration between educational institutions, employers, non-governmental organisations, service providers and public employment services in directing labor flows
15:30-16:00 – Concluding discussion
Contact address: simo.aho@tuni.fi
Selected publications of Andersen and Larsen
Andersen, N. A., & Larsen, F. (2024). Activation policy: bruised and battered but still standing. Policy and Society, 43(2), 127-140. https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puae013
Caswell, D., Nielsen, M. H., & Larsen, F. (In press). The puzzling reconciliation of conditionality and personalised services in employment services: How managers, frontline workers and claimants strive to solve a Gordian Knot. I V. Tan Chen, S. Pultz, & O. Sharone (red.), Handbook on Unemployment and Society Edward Elgar Publishing.
Caswell, D., & Larsen, F. (red.) (2021). Borgerinddragelse i beskæftigelsespolitikken. DJØF Forlag. Arbejdsmarkedsforhold
Andersen, N. A. (2020). “The constitutive effects of evaluation systems: Lessons from the policymaking process of Danish Active Labour Market Policies”. Evaluation. 26 (3), 257-274.
Andersen, N. A. & Breidahl, K. N. (2021). ”The power of ideas in policymaking processes: The role of institutionalised knowledge production in state bureaucracies”. Social Policy and Administration. 55 (5), 848-862.
Andersen, N. & Pattyn, V. (2025). “The organization of evaluations: The influence of the ministry of finance on evaluation systems”. Evidence and Policy. 21 (2), 206-228.
Larsen, F., & Caswell, D. (2022). Co-creation in an era of welfare conditionality: Lessons from Denmark. Journal of Social Policy, 51(1), 58-76. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279420000665
Caswell, D., Nielsen, M. H., & Larsen, F. (In press). The puzzling reconciliation of conditionality and personalised services in employment services: How managers, frontline workers and claimants strive to solve a Gordian Knot. I V. Tan Chen, S. Pultz, & O. Sharone (red.), Handbook on Unemployment and Society Edward Elgar Publishing.
Andersen, N., Caswell, D., & Larsen, F. (2017). A New Approach to Helping the Hard to Place Unemployed: The Promise of Developing New Knowledge in an Interactive and Collaborative Process . European Journal of Social Security, 19(4), 335-352. https://doi.org/10.1177/1388262717745193
Andersen, N. A. & Breidahl, K. N. (2025). ”Caught in a standstill: The unresolved challenges of integrated service delivery in public organizations”. Public Administration. 103 (1,), 25-46.
Andersen, N. A., Larsen, F. & Caswell, D. (2024). “Measuring Active Labour Market Polices”. In Triantafillou, P. & Lewis, J. (eds.). Handbook on Measuring Governance. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 229-242.