ESPOO MAGAZINE 3/2020

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According to advance information, Espoo’s population grew by
more than 1,100 residents between January and May, which is almost
1,500 residents less than during the same time the previous year.
Espoo plans to halve
youth unemployment
THE City of Espoo and its partners have set the target
to halve youth unemployment in the city by the end of
2022. Work towards this goal was begun before the
pandemic, but today it is more vital than ever.
With the coronavirus, youth unemployment has
increased sharply in Espoo. In April, 5,283 young people
between the ages of 15 and 29 were registered as
unemployed jobseekers, which is 164 per cent more
than the previous year.
Measures to prevent youth unemployment are
topical right now particularly because of the municipal
employment experiment set to start in January 2021. It
involves strengthening the role of municipalities in the
management of employment and transferring responsibility
from the Employment and Economic Development
Office to the city for all under 30-year-old
unemployed jobseekers, people employed under the
pay subsidy scheme and receiving services designed
to promote employment, regardless of the type of
unemployment benefit they receive.
Promoting youth employment requires influencing
a number of phenomena. One way to halve youth
unemployment is to raise their targeted early-stage
benefit, which would decrease the number of their
unemployed periods. Another way is to increase their
personal benefit, which would shorten any periods of
unemployment that have begun. Increasing jobseekers’
skills is also one of the key measures available to
promote their employment.
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Increasing
jobseekers’
skills is one
of the key
measures
available to
promote their
employment.
The Ohjaamotalo One-Stop Guidance Centre is a place where
young people under the age of 30 obtain information and help,
for example, with looking for work, finding income, opportunities
for study and choosing a career.
Remote teaching in Espoo
was effective for the most part
PUPILS and guardians shared their experiences of the
exceptional period of remote teaching this spring in a
survey organised by the city. The purpose of the survey
was to examine how successful remote teaching has been,
whether communication between pupils and teachers was
effective, what support pupils received, as well as good
practices and where there is room for improvement.
The pupils and guardians of Finnish-speaking schools in
Espoo assessed how effective studying remotely has been
on a scale of 0–10 (extremely poor – extremely good).
In the pupils’ responses, the average was 7.9 and in the
guardians’ responses 8.1, which shows that remote teaching
was considered to have been effective.
Of the pupils, 89 per cent said they had received sufficient
support and tuition from their teachers, while the
figure for primary school pupils was slightly higher at 94
per cent. Of the guardians, 75 per cent said their child had
received sufficient support and tuition. During the last
part of the period of remote teaching when the survey was
conducted, 87 per cent of all comprehensive school pupils
had been in daily contact with a teacher.
The effectiveness of remote teaching was charted
in early May with a survey that received responses from
7,544 guardians and 7,491 pupils from Finnish-speaking
comprehensive schools.
Espoo in
social media
Facebook
Espoo – Esbo
Posts from different parts of
the city and news from various
City of Espoo actors.
Twitter
@EspooEsbo
Timely updates and quick
responses. Bulletins, answers to
questions and discussions.
Instagram
@espoonkaupunki
Great moments, events and
landscapes through the eyes of
Espoo residents.
#espoohetki
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