Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, promotes and finances the renewal of Finland. Our mission is to promote well-being and accelerate economic growth within the limits of nature’s carrying capacity. Learn more about our work and join us.
We promote Finland’s well-being and accelerate economic growth within the limits of nature’s carrying capacity.
We have boldly reformed society.
We anticipate the future and strengthen Finnish thinking about the future. We create understanding of developments that are significant for Finland’s future. We help decision-makers, organizations, and individual citizens to imagine alternative futures and act on the basis of foresight information.
We help develop social innovations that transform Finland. We work with the public sector, companies, organizations, and educational institutions to find solutions to social challenges. Once effective solutions are found, we help them take root as significant innovations.
We finance experiments, studies, and innovations that renew Finland. We aim to increase the amount of funding to €15 million starting in 2026. In addition to funding, we support our partners in project implementation, joint development, and network building.
Sitra’s role has varied over the decades. At different times, we have acted as a research and development funder, a venture capitalist, and an educator, for example. However, the core of our work has remained the same. We help Finland to renew itself so that we can continue to thrive in the future.
Our statutory mission is to promote stable and balanced development in Finland, quantitative and qualitative economic growth, and international competitiveness and cooperation.
As a fund under the Parliament, our work is mainly financed by investment returns on capital originally received from the Parliament. We do not use tax money from the state budget.
Our mission is to promote Finland’s well-being and accelerate economic growth within the limits of nature’s carrying capacity. In line with our strategy updated in 2024, we will drive and finance Finland’s renewal.
A year in our work.