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SEKES – Association of Finnish Development Companies

SEKES – the Association of Finnish Development Companies is comprised of the development companies or agencies owned by various cities and municipalities all over Finland. It has 52 + 4  member companies which employ a total of 700 people, encompassing about 90% of the country’s regional development companies. In 2019, SEKES member organisations worked in-depth with about 45,000 enterprises and had more than 100,000 contacts.

SEKES’s basic tasks include:

• Influencing issues that are significant for development companies
• Increasing the visibility of development companies
• Building partnerships with other operators
• Internal and external communication and participation in discourses concerning the sector
• Developing the activities of its members
• Promoting peer learning and spreading new ideas
• Coordinating joint activities
• Boosting know-how and resources within the network
• Developing international activities

The SEKES mission

To bolster enterprises’ competitiveness. Boosting companies’ competitiveness creates a strong foundation for the growth of regional vitality, which accumulates into well-being at a wider, national level.