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Employment and Economic Development Centre
OSTROBOTHNIA
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Employment and Economic Development Centres
(TE-Centres)

• Uusimaa, Helsinki
• Southwest Finland, Turku
• Satakunta, Pori
• Häme, Lahti
• Pirkanmaa, Tampere
• Kymi, Kouvola
• South Savo, Mikkeli
• North Savo, Kuopio
• North Karelia, Joensuu
• Central Finland, Jyväskylä
• South Ostrobothnia, Seinäjoki
• Ostrobothnia, Vaasa
• North Ostrobothnia, Oulu
• Kainuu, Kajaani
• Lapland, Rovaniemi

• Personnel totally approx. 9001000
• Additional 2350 persons at employment offices
• TE-Centre of Ostrobothnias personnel approx. 130

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Region
Municipalities 30 Population 243 680 Languages
Finnish 59 , Swedish 40 Labour force 119
649 Businesses 12 872 Farms 6 917
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You will find us
in Vaasa
and in Kokkola
Pohjanmaan TE-keskus PL 131 Hovioikeudenpuistikko
19 A FIN - 65101 Vaasa Finland tel [phone]
300 fax [phone]
Pohjanmaan TE-keskus PL 240 Ristirannankatu
1 FIN-67101 Kokkola Finland tel [phone]
500 fax [phone]
www.te-keskus.fi/pohjanmaa firstname.lastname_at_te-k
eskus.fi
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Vision for TE-Centre 2008
The TE Centre of Ostrobothnia is the best
bilingual international active developer of the
business environment and labour market in its
geographical area. The TE Centre will in a
sustainable way benefit from all of the resources
in the area. The TE Centre of Ostrobothnia is an
attractive and appreciated employer.
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The values of TE-centre

• Customer-driven
• Cooperative
• Humane
• Sensitivity to change
• Results oriented

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TE-centre of Ostrobothnia - Tasks

• support and advise businesses
• promote technological progress of businesses
• assist them with export and internationalization
  issues
• promote farming and rural businesses
• develop fisheries
• promote regional labour policy and labour
  training
• manage employment offices
• supervisory duties

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TE-centre of Ostrobothnia offers

• The governments financing and support services
• EUs financing and support services
• education and training services
• development of economic activities

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Services of TE-centre for

• BUSINESS SERVICE POINT
• Advise of business start-ups
• Services of National Board of Patents and
  Registration
• Trade register services

• LABOUR DEPARTMENT
• Planning of regional labour politics
• Supervision of employment offices
• Planning and arranging of labour training
• Salaries security
• Immigration

• RURAL DEPARTMENT
• Rural development services
• Agricultural financing aid
• Agricultural support and environmental services

CUSTOMER

• Fishery Unit
• Promotion of occupational and leisure fishing
• Structural support for fisheries

• BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
• Business development
• Financial aid

• Employment offices
• Recruitment services
• Employer services

• Technology Unit
• Tekes services

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Organisation
Ministry of Agriculutre and Forestry
Ministry of Trade and Industry
Ministry of Labour
TE-Centre of Ostrobothnia
Consultative Committee of Ostrobothnia
Administration and Finance Department
Business Service Point
Business Department
Labour Department
Rural Department
Fishery Unit
Technology Unit
Employment Offices
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TE-centre for Ostrobothnia
Director Kaj Suomela
Administration and Finance Department Administrati
ve Director Stefan Söderqvist

Rural Department Head of Dep. Harriet Hermans
Labour Department Head of Dep. Ari Lähteenpää
Business Department Head of Dep. Pasi Peltola
Technology Unit Techology Expert Vesa Kojola
Fishery Unit Head of Unit Kjell Nybacka

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Business Service Point

• Advisory
• Advises and gives information about financing
  and development
• Business start-up advisory
• Assists development plans
• Guidance
• Supports co-operation projects between
  businesses

• Arranges training
• Gives you information of how to manage business
  start-ups
• Information about leadership, marketing,
  production and financial administration

• Life-cycle support of SME-businesses
• Trade register services
• Tailored expert services
• Investment support in terms of development
• Internationalization

• Innovation services
• Advises in licensing rights
• Assists in protecting ideas and inventions,
  commercialization, seeking of financing and
  business partners

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Business Department
Training and guidance Tailored training
packages to develop businesses
Products
Kunto

• Direct support for businesses
• Investment support
• Development support
• Energy efficiency support
• Account for energy support

PostStart
ProStart
Profiitti
Balanssi
Monitaito
Tuotto
Taitava
Myyntiteho
DesignStart
ViestinVaihto
eAskel
Globaali
TuoteStart
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Technology Unit (Tekes)
Finance and activate challenging product
development and research projects of businesses
and research institutes

• Tekes financial services for enterprises
• (ca 237 M year 2002)
• support for product development
• product development loans
• Tekes financial services for RD institutes and
  universities (ca 144 M year 2002)
• strengthen the technological and scientific
  know-how

• Tekes expert service
• (260 experts)
• at service for businesses
• competitive analysis
• preparation and background support of projects

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Rural Department

• Develops the countryside
• to develop new sources of livelihood in the
  countryside after the rural program for years
  2000-2006
• Developing of farms
• to promote transfers of farms to descendants
  (change of generations)
• To improve the countryside environmentally
• special supports
• Control of rural production
• handling of productions quotas
• Inspection of seedling protection
• to prevent pest and plant diseases

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Fishery Unit

• promotes fisheries, leisure fishing and tourism
• structural support for e.g. occupational
  fishermen, fish farmers and fish processing
• plans and finances economical repairs of
  fisheries
• dilutes the regions collected fishing permission
  feeds to fisheries
• guidance and supervision of fishing regions
• industry guidance

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Labour Department

• Labour training
• Recruitment and labour services
• Project support
• ESF-projects
• Support for independent initiatives
• Investment support
• The states employment programs
• Workplace development projects
• Immigration
• Security of salaries

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Administration and Finance Department

• Takes care of the tasks that belong to TE Centre
  as an accountable office
• Finance group
• accounting tasks
• payment transactions
• bookkeeping
• Financial planning
• Personnel group
• maintains register about the personnel at TE
  Center and at the employment offices
• calculation of wages
• Office services
• telephone central
• janitor services
• archive management
• office equipment