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Get to know TAKU’s new board

22.11.2021

TAKU has a new chairperson and a diverse board of members representing the arts and culture sector. Piia Lääveri, Ruisrock festival’s Executive producer was elected as a chairperson of TAKU for the next term. Get to know all the board members.

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TAKUtuki prize has been awarded

13.5.2022

TAKUtuki prize 2022 has been awarded to two final projects or theses done by TAKU’s student members.

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.

Graduating student, apply TAKUtuki prize in March

1.3.2022

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 €.

Networking and discussion event for members 

28.2.2022

Join our networking event and share your ideas on how Finnish working life could be made better for art and culture professionals with international backgrounds.

TAKU’s board’s student representative: Nadine Labib

15.2.2022

Nadine Labib is TAKU’s board’s student representative. She works as a Creative Director and studies at Tampere University – and she originates from Egypt.

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.

Apply grant from AEK foundation

7.12.2021

Grants for research, education, or professional development. Application period for Akava Special Branches’ AEK foundation is on 7. December 2021 – 28. February 2022. Read more!

Get to know TAKU’s new board

22.11.2021

TAKU has a new chairperson and a diverse board of members representing the arts and culture sector. Piia Lääveri, Ruisrock festival’s Executive producer was elected as a chairperson of TAKU for the next term. Get to know all the board members.

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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.

A few words about unemployment fund membership and accruing earnings-related unemployment benefit

18.2.2022

Joining an unemployment fund is worth it, as earnings-related unemployment benefit is considerably larger than the basic unemployment benefit paid by Kela. So, have you remembered to join an unemployment fund? It’s no extra cost to you.

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.

Cooperation with student societies

21.5.2021

Read how TAKU collaborates with student societies and what kind of sponsorship you can apply.

Mentoring gives perspectives and courage for making dreams a reality!

22.1.2021

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.