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The Partnership Platform – Collaborative space for immigrant integration work and the reception of refugees 

The Partnership Platform is an interactive, digital and collaborative workspace for operators, experts, stakeholders and networks working in the fields of immigration, immigrant integration and the reception of refugees.
 
The Partnership Platform and the kumppanuusalusta.kotoutuminen.fi and kotoutumisentukena.fi websites jointly form a set of online services providing information, tools, best practices, and a collaborative platform for the operators in the fields of immigrant integration and the reception of refugees.

The Partnership Platform is a collaborative workspace and a channel for sharing information for operators working with immigrant integration, immigration and the reception of refugees. The beta version of the Partnership Platform was released on 30 November 2021. This means the Partnership Platform is still being developed. The goal is to discontinue the use of the beta version by the summer of 2022.

In addition to the content available on the kumppanuusalusta.kotoutuminen.fi website and the low-threshold activities published on the kotoutumisentukena.fi websites, the Partnership Platform includes collaborative workspaces that registered members can use in their cooperation. You can use the workspaces for discussions, and to share information and materials. Anyone working in the fields of immigrant integration or the reception of refugees can set up a workspace to help with the collaborative activities related to their working group, project or event organisation. 

Who is the administrator and developer of the website? 

The partnership platform is administered and developed by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment’s Centre of Expertise in Immigrant Integration and the Immigrant Integration Group of the Employment and Entrepreneurship Department. The contact persons of Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment’s integration partnership programme’s regional partners also take part in the development. The contact persons come from Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centres). The Partnership Platform team consists of the persons in charge of administration at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, and the ELY Centres. 

The team produces content for the Partnership Platform and the kumppanuusalusta.kotoutuminen.fi and kotoutumisentukena.fi websites, manages user surveys, and further develops the set of online services. The team is responsible for any errors in the content they produce, as well as for correcting them. The team is not responsible for the accuracy of any external content linked to the Partnership Platform or the two websites, or for the accuracy of content within the workspaces. The website is actively developed based on the feedback, needs and requests of users. 

The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment is responsible for the administration of the Partnership Platform and the kumppanuusalusta.kotoutuminen.fi website. The ELY Centre for Uusimaa is responsible for the administration of the kotoutumisentukena.fi website.

Who owns the intellectual property rights to the content of the Partnership Platform?

  • The intellectual property rights to the images (e.g. photographs, maps, illustrations) on the website are owned by their respective creators and/or the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. The reuse of images must be separately agreed with the Partnership Platform team.
  • The content on the website can be used for commercial purposes only by separate agreement. 
  • Information on the intellectual property rights to the materials on the kotoutuminen.fi and kotoutumisentukena.fi websites can be found on each website.
  • The intellectual property rights to the materials uploaded to workspaces are owned by the authors of the materials. The Partnership Platform team, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, and the ELY Centres do not own any of the rights and are not responsible for the accuracy of the materials. 

Who is responsible for what?

The overall responsibility for the online service and the publicly available content lies with the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment’s Immigrant Integration Group of the Employment and Entrepreneurship Department and the Centre of Expertise in Immigrant Integration The objective is to keep the content current and to correct any errors without delay. The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment is not responsible for the accuracy of any content on linked websites.

The parties uploading content on the Partnership Platform are primarily responsible for the content of the platform. However, Partnership Platform administrators have the obligation to intervene in the event of inappropriate activities, or if illegal material is shared, for example. The administration has the right to revoke a user’s membership and to close a workspace if any inappropriate or illegal activity is observed.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment is not responsible for any data loss caused by a technical problem. The party that uploads content to a workspace is responsible for the materials and creating backups. However, the administrators of the Partnership Platform are responsible for fixing errors without delay and ensuring they cause as little disturbance to users as possible.

The administrators of the Partnership Platform work for the Immigrant Integration Group of the Employment and Entrepreneurship Department of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, and for the ELY Centre for Uusimaa.

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