HAUS study visits in public sector attract internationally 

August has brought several international delegations to HAUS. Learning visits are a good way to promote good governance globally. For visitors, the learning visit is scheduled to last about a week. It makes it possible to familiarise oneself with Finnish best practices through observation and benchmarking. In early autumn, HAUS organised learning visits for delegations from Jordan, Taiwan, Tanzania and Zambia.  

“We have organised similar visits to HAUS for over twenty years. Learning visits are an excellent way to get to know the Finnish public sector in a short period of time. This year, visitors have been particularly interested in open and transparent public administration and ways to make central government more efficient,” says Kirsi Aaltola, Director of Development Business at HAUS.

In addition to Finnish public administration, visitors are interested in HAUS. The role of HAUS as a procurement unit and limited liability company forms a cost-effective way to provide services for competence development. HAUS private sector partnership network provides high-quality services and the best experts for central government development work.  The extensive partnership network of the private sector brings in the best experts to the development work of central government. 

There are no organisations like HAUS with the government’s own in-house status anywhere in the world. Many people want to think about something similar in the context of their own country,” continues CEO Kyösti Väkeväinen

An ongoing EU funded twinning project it possible for Jordanians to visit Finland. The Jordanian Institute of Public Administration is centrally responsible for training and development activities in its own country. A cooperation project with HAUS was launched to develop the institute and competence. EU Member States Germany and Croatia are also contributing to the project. The European Framework of competence development and digitalisation provides a good basis for development.  

“As part of this cooperation to benchmark visit to Finnish HAUS organization and Finland, this is a continuos development journey for aim. We aim to understand the good practices especially on how to better provide joint competence development for whole government.  Also, we enhance our own Learning Management System (LMS) and therefore HAUS is a good benchmark for us globally because of Finnish reputation” commented General Director Siham Alkhawaldeh from the Jordanian Institute of Public Administration (IPA).