The Well-being Power Plant Of Eastern Finland (VOIMALA)

The Well-being Know-how Center of Eastern Finland

The Well-being Power Plant develops comprehensive well-being services, advances the know-how related to these services, and strengthens the collaboration between research and development as well as education and work-life.
Emphasis is on the collaboration between social, health, cultural, educational, child- and youth-work sectors.
At the background of the network of collaboration is the need to increase the overall well-being of the inhabitants of the area and to take care of the strength and availability of competent work-force in the region.
The activity is based on adopting a comprehensive, systemic mindset.
Social and healthcare professionals with integrated training are able to respond to the service needs of the future even better.
An important goal of the Voimala Consortium is social involvement; enhancement of pervasive well-being and its development in a network of several collaborators.

Voimala vision 2020: a new way to operate.
Collaboration between different fields in education and work-life creates new multi-professional know-how and a new kind of operational culture.
Combining bravely know-how from different fields: establishing know-how of art and culture as a part of social and healthcare education, activity and leadership, and on the other hand joining elements of social and health sectors into the education of cultural fields.

Joint development as a starting point.
Experience and know-how have been acquired by the TAKUULLA (Certainly) projects, which have introduced music and dance to maternity clinics, kindergartens, schools, hospitals, associations, service entres etc.
The steps/criteria of cultural well-being help the service providers and buyers and those responsible for the content and quality criteria to speak the same language.
Step 4 is in the core of VOIMALA work: collaboration between different fields in education and work-life.

It is a matter of changing the operational culture.
Instead of sectoral mindset a common view of comprehensive well-being is needed so that cultural know-how is integrated as an organic part of the education, activity and management of social and health services.
Along with this. a demand for multi-sectoral well-being services will be created, as well as for a new way of working according to vision 2020.

The Well-being Power Plant of Eastern Finland will be an internationally recognized ecosystem of multi-sectoral well-being know-how in 2025.
The ecosystem of well-being implies structural and operational intertwining of apparently separate fields.
It is a matter of social change: a new way of thinking, a new operational culture, renewed education and work-life, collaborative development.

Work can be made more meaningful and interaction skills needed in work life can be increased by creativity and memorability.
The possibility of employees to utilize their cultural interest increases well-being and thriving at work and brings joy to the job.
From the point of view of the employer, client satisfaction increases, sick leaves diminish, and productivity of work increases.