KantriVoima
The KantriVoima project offers free short training for rural entrepreneurs and forest owners in Kainuu, those considering entrepreneurship and students in the above-mentioned fields. Anyone from Kainuu who is interested in improving their own skills is also welcome to take part. The training courses are webinars and face-to-face training, on a variety of topics. Find out more about the project at www.kao.fi/kantrivoima and about the project's training offerings at www.kao.fi/lyhytkoulutukset. Welcome!
For whom?
- Rural entrepreneurs in the Kainuu region
- Forest owners in the Kainuu region
- Aspiring entrepreneurs
- Those maintaining their own cultivation plots and greenhouses
- Students in the field
- Career changers
- Those interested individuals in the subject.
Sectors of the project
Agriculture and forestry
Theme of the project
The project’s goal is to improve the success conditions of rural entrepreneurs by developing their skills and bringing the latest information on industry innovations to entrepreneurs through training.
- Dissemination of information
- The project aims to promote the idea of self-sufficiency.
- Increasing skills according to themes for all interested
What a job seeker, student, or entrepreneur receives by participating in the project’s activities/trainings
- Short-term supplementary training
- Increased participant skills
- Renewal of the entrepreneur’s livelihood
- New ideas
- Activation of the participant
- Strong professional training
- Enthusiasm for a new profession
- Motivation for the future
- A new profession
- Basic and advanced knowledge
- Increased well-being and contacts
Participant can attend trainings in real-time or by ordering a recording.
Training themes include, among others:
- Milk and meat production
- Horticultural production and open field cultivation
- Organic farming
- Farm succession, ownership transfer, and finance
- Beekeeping
- Multifunctional use of forests
- Renewable energy
Trainings offered by the project
Trainings (kao.fi, in Finnish)
Funder and implementer
ESR+, Kainuu Vocational College
Project operating time
1.1.2024 – 31.12.2026
Further information and contact
KantriVoima -hanke (kao.fi, in Finnish)
Laukkanen Sari, project manager, 044 797 4581, sari.laukkanen@kao.fi