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The new workbook supports career planning and job search

16.6.2025

Discover this free workbook which provides an excellent foundation for your job search and helps you plan your next career step!

New salary recommendations and terms of employment in the art and culture sector 2025-2027

28.5.2025

Those with a degree in cultural production or a master’s/ bachelor’s degree in history, literature and cultural studies can apply our (private sectors) salary recommendations. Updated employment terms for art and culture sector are also available. New recommendations are valid from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2027.

Launch for ”A New Workbook for Navigating a Creative Career” June 16th

27.5.2025

Are you a creative professional looking for a way to develop a better career?
We invite you to take advantage of the new creative industry career workbook.

TAKUtuki prize 2025 has been awarded

23.5.2025

TAKUtuki prize 2025 has been awarded to two final theses done by TAKU’s student members Tuulia Leinonen and Emmi Keski-Nikkola.

The uncertainty of continuing to work is weighing on the arts, culture and events professionals

16.5.2025

Whats up in the working life of arts and culture professionals? Read first results of our member survey.

Welcome to TAKU’s annual spring meeting on May 23rd

8.5.2025

As a member you are warmly welcome to attend TAKU’s annual spring meeting on Friday May 23rd.

Graduating student, apply for TAKUtuki prize in March 2025

26.2.2025

Student member, have you recently finished your thesis or are you currently working on it? Now it is the right time to apply TAKUtuki prize which is worth 1000 €. Application period is on in March 2025!

County and municipal election in Finland 2025

8.1.2025

Year 2025 is the election year of county and municipal elections in Finland. You are welcome to learn more about its meaning and your own rights.

Leisure accident and passenger insurance will be transferred to LähiTapiola on Jan 1, 2025

19.12.2024

Learn about the contents of the insurance.

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Guidelines for dealing with harassment and inappropriate treatment

21.3.2023

How to act in a harassment situation? How can harassment be prevented in the workplace? What are the responsibilities of the employer and the board of the organization?

Mentoring gives perspectives and courage for making dreams a reality!

22.1.2023

The TAKU mentoring programme helps you develop your thinking, take an important career step ,
and reinforce your professional identity as a multifaceted specialist in the art and culture sector.

Support for education

31.8.2022

TAKU’s members can apply for support for education. The annual application period is in September.

TAKUtuki grant rewards students’ final projects and theses!

17.5.2022

The aim of the TAKUtuki grant, awarded annually in spring, is to support final projects and theses done by our student members, encourage students to do research, and boost the recognition of and research in the sector.

New publication: Planning and Creating Virtual Events

12.4.2022

Planning and Creating Virtual Events is a practical handbook aimed to help to recognize and solve the central questions in virtual event management. Read and download the publication!

Do you find identifying your own competence challenging?

1.4.2022

Sometimes seeing something up close can be hard. Your own expertise can feel like it lacks focus, and analysing it correctly requires an “ah-hah” moment.

Pricing your skills in the art and culture sectors

1.2.2022

Pricing your skills, product or copyrights you transfer to clients is challenging. It requires you to look at things from many perspectives, particularly when you are pricing your first service.

Raising appreciation of the art and culture sector: a necessary endeavour

25.5.2021

Great advances have been made in understanding the significance and value of the art and culture sector in recent years.

Specialist in the art and culture sector: are you being paid at least the minimum TAKU-recommended salary?

21.5.2021

See the TAKU’s salary recommendations for cultural producers (with degrees from a university of applied sciences) and holders of master’s and bachelor’s degrees in arts, history, literature and cultural subjects.