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The data of the salary survey for arts and culture professionals have been published

17.3.2023

The survey tells that the salary level of arts and culture professionals corresponds to the Finnish median. However, questions that require closer examination and development emerged.

Graduating student, apply for TAKUtuki prize in March

24.2.2023

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 €.

TAKU’s new board begins its term in January 2023

11.1.2023

Who are councelling our organization? Get to know TAKU’s new board!

TAKU awards winners 2022 are published

18.11.2022

The winners of the Arts and Culture Work Life Awards 2022 have been published. The jury’s decisions emphasize the development of industry advocacy work and international solidarity.

TAKU’s strategic goals for the government programme 2023-27

2.11.2022

Arts and culture sector needs reconstruction after the corona crisis, but the gaze must also be directed further into the future. TAKU wants to raise topics that concern the entire working life and the renewal of society at the same time.

Boost Your Future: Career Networking Event

17.10.2022

This event brings together jobseekers, students, art professionals, employer exhibitors and leading institutions from the art and culture industry! Register here

Welcome to TAKU’s annual fall meeting on 18th November

17.10.2022

As a member you are warmly welcome to participate TAKU’s annual fall meeting on 18th Nov. As a member it is also possible to stand for the election of TAKU’s board. Please register here

Suggest an expert or an action of the arts and culture industries

14.9.2022

TAKU will choose the year’s foremost arts and culture expert and action for the Work Life Awards. Who or what do you consider to be the most distinguished person or an action in the industry 2022? Send us your suggestion!

Dear member, answer to income survey!

1.9.2022

TAKU collects income data in order to advocate the members and stand by their side.

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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?

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.

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.