📋 Tender Overview
The representatives of the AV sector handed over the business worlds vision of the goals and necessary measures to the representatives of the Ministry of Labor and Economy as well as the Ministry of Education and Culture at the Screen Helsinki event on August 31 2022. The goal is to jointly create a growth agreement based on open dialogue i.e. a new operating model that aims at the growth and internationalization of AV companies.In the future the development of the growth environment for Finlands creative economy will take place in a strong dialogue with companies in the field. Companies create growth the operating environment must support it as well as possible says I lona Lundstrm Director General of the Ministry of Labor and the Economy.The growth agreement is an action plan in which the public sector and companies from renewable ecosystems define joint growth and development goals and future business opportunities. The most central themes of the AV-industry growth agreement are education responsibility internationality and financing the entries related to which support the preparation of the future government program. The background for the implementation of the growth agreement is the global growth of the AV market. The Finnish av industry aims to be part of the growing international market in which case both the industry and the public sector must commit to continuous long-term development of the industry.The potential of the creative economy for the Finnish national economy and culture is great. The domestic av industry has been on the rise for a few years now and it is important for us to find measures that will strengthen the activities of the industrys operators in the future as well says CEO Riitta Kaivosoja from the Ministry of Education and Culture. Construction of the growth agreement continues in the av sector and the tried and tested operating method will also be rolled out to other sectors of the creative economy from next year states Ilona Lundstrm. The Ministry of Labor and the Economy and the Ministry of Education and Culture launched the AV industry growth agreement process at the beginning of 2022. The work has been financed by the EUs Recovery and Recovery Support Facility RRF which is one of the programs of the EUs one-time recovery facility. The ministries gave the project to the actors under their supervision Business Finland and the Finnish Film Foundation. Audiovisual Producers Finland APFI ry was invited to the steering group to represent business life. The practical development work is facilitated by the economic policy program Film Tampere of the business and development company of the Tampere city region Business Tampere Oy with project funding from the Ministry of Education and Culture. All the key players in the industry almost 200 people participated in the AV industry growth agreement process. The combined turnover of the companies is more than 600 million.
