JCI FINLAND NATIONAL PROJECTS
JCI FINLAND NATIONAL PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS
1. AWARDS
The one of the most important task of NOM Awards Manager is to be an organiser and to push all chambers to make award applications. This makes possible to publish succeeded chamber members and projects. The information like deadlines, categories and other relevant information about award, both national and international are shared to all local chamber presidents.
The biggest challenge for this year is the changing the applications from the traditional form to the electronic form. This means that applications are in an electronic form and are not printed out at any phase.
All area awards managers are gathered together for training. Training is about the new applications, award categories and all needed information to allow area awards managers be able to share information to individual chamber member of their own area.
Making sure that chambers and individual members get their well-deserved glory is an important task. This will be made true by organising a glorious national award gala.
All material, instructions and new ideas of electronic awards form will be gathered for next years Awards Manager. This makes sure that everything is working and easy to use in future.
Goals for this year is to:
Get glory to the best projects and persons.
Get new e-award system working and easy to use.
Get couple of awards in EC-conference to Finland.
2. LEARNING INSTITUTE OF FINLAND – COACHING EVENTS FOR FINNISH JC´S
Learning Institute is founded 1994 to coordinate national coaching and training events. With LI-manager there is a board which is called Learning Institute Board (LI-board). LI-board consists of 10 regional coordinators. Via RC´s the knowledge of international and national trainings is delivered to 89 local Individual Vice Presidents. They inform together 3000 JC´s of the possibilities of LI. This organisation gives LI-manager an effective way to effect all members of JCI Finland.
Learning Institute organises trainings for leadership and coaching. Trainings for leaderships are Future Chapter, Pres-Lio, LOM-training. LI connects members with Nordic Academy and European Academy. Coaching trainings may be the Train and the Prime. Learning Institute makes also marketing of coaching trainings abroad, like JCI Prime and JCI Excel. Also the National speech and debate contests are arranged by LI. As an informer of coaching LI also gives tips for making events, where coaches are needed. This is made by using a Coach Register, which is published in the website of Learning Institute.
The goal of LI is to make Finnish JC´s better coaches and leaders. By giving opportunities to learn, train, and practise coaching and leading LI reaches the goal. Through improving the skills of members we can make surrounding communities improve as well. One important goal is also to make internationalising happen among Finnish coaches. This makes JCI Finland to be a wanted organisation for under 40-year old, active leaders, coaches and developers in Finland.
National Project Leader of Learning, The LI-manager keeps in touch with the National Board of JCI Finland. Also he guides and coaches Regional Coordinators to achieve goals in their own areas. LI-manager collects coaches for National events aswell is responsible of giving room for those educational happenings. This is usually made together with the local chapter, which can be wherever in Finland. At the beginning of the season LI-manager makes budget and strategy, in the middle makes things happen and at last after a year tells, what LI has done. (And thinks, how it should have been done in 2026)
Enjoy the adventures of coaching with Learning Institute of Finland!
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3. MAIN EMPHASIS THEME 2006: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS ALTERNATIVE!
Junior Chamber Finland has Main Emphasis Themes, chosen at the preceeding national convention. It can be chosen for a one or two years period of time. The meaning of Main Emphasis Theme is primarily to focus activities of local chapters and national organization to some actual issue of community.
4. COMMUNICATIONS
The communication of JCI Finland is highly respected around the world. We have achieved rewards about national communication both in Word and European congresses. The national communication in Finland is divided in two sectors: internal – and external.
The internal communication is mend to inform the members. The JCI Meriitti will be published usually 4 times during the year in size A4.
The purpose of this national paper is to tell about the topical issues and events. The articles deal with topics from national boards perspective, considering the functions of individual chambers. It will bring out the impressive campaigns, which are JC-action at its best.
With the help of national magazine the JCI Meriitti, we take care of our partners and improve the image of our organization. With this publication we want to tell how the JCI can provide different kind of opportunities as a developer and trainer. The chamber projects and the experiences of members as a person are important themes of this paper.
In addition we have functional websites. There you can find the material bank and wide photo-files, which are in free use for every member. The solid graphical layouts we keep up with exact instructions. We also send 'eMeriitti´, an email-magazine twice a month to all members and senators.
Communication in national level is responsibility of regional information officers with Team Communication. The regional information officers (RIO) take care also the regional informing and publish the region magazines. Then we have the local information officers (LIO) who are taking care of the local communication in chambers.
The communication is one of the emphasis in JCI Finland in year and the organization is trying to make use of it in everything.
COALS
1. The clarifying and uniforming of the JCI Brand
2. The practicality of the communication channels
3. The discussion channels open for chamber level
4. The Media Appearance
5. The satisfaction of the members to the communications of its organization
It is the project manager's duty to make sure that national and regional media are aware of JCI Finland's activities and that the organization receives enough positive publicity to ensure continuous positive evelopment for our public image.
In addition, the project manager sees to it that JCI Finland provides extensive information of its activities to its members.
5. NATIONAL PROJECT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
National Project Leader Information Technology is responsible for smooth and continous operation of two branches of JCI Finland web services, Intranet and Online- membership register. To achieve success in this, following actions must be performed:
- Seek and form National IT-team with a member from all 10 regions.
- Train all IT-Team Members to be technically competent IT-managers in their respective regions, and train them to focus on implementation of IT resources provided by JCI Finland
- Continously seek improvements and streamline functions of JCI Finland online-resources.
- Take extra care to ensure that all online information is current and correct.
- Co-operate with National Information Officer and Secretary General in providing information and resources to all members of JCI Finland
- Co-operate with appropriate EVP in providing a electronic newsletter to the members
- Provide suggestions for development of member database to contribute to success of JCI Finland's co-operation partners.
6. PRODUCTIVE IDEA –COMPETITION:
Success through innovative entrepreneurship!
7. TOYF
The Outstanding Young Farmer (TOYF) is one of the Junior Chamber Finland´s projects, which has been run for nine (9) years in Finland. The Programs roots are in United States of America. The mission of Finland´s Outstanding Young Farmers Program is to provide a positive platform to celebrate and recognize progress and excellence in Agriculture in Finland. The Program provides a unique opportunity to encourage young farmers to pursue excellence, to provide a forum for exchange and to foster better urban-rural relations through greater understanding and appreciation of farmers´ concerns and achievements. The Outstanding Young Farmer program strives to promote the values of excellence, advancement and opportunity building interest in farmers and their business. The project advance awareness of the farmers' importance and impact on Finland´s economy and countryside.
Nominees should be 40 years old or younger. Local farmers are sponsored to the region event by local junior chamber or other agricultural groups like union of local agricultural producer or our co-operation company. Judging criteria include progress in agricultural career, financial and management practices, and contribution to the well-being of the community and nation. The program brings into the spotlight young men and women who have achieved entrepreneurship and leadership in the agriculture industry. The farmers selected as nominees act as positive role models for our youth, showing farming as an exciting, innovative, and respected profession.
Our organization consists of Executive Vice President, the national manager and ten region managers. The national manager´s main tasks are: cooperation with national sponsors (reporting, meetings), reporting in the national level within the JCI and training of the region managers. The competition begins in May and ends in September. Every year a brochure will be designed by the national manager together with national sponsors of the competition. Application form and all information of the project can be found on the JCI Finland´s internet pages. Applications are delivered to region TOYF –managers, who convene region judging committee in September. National committee meets in October to award a prize to a most successful candidate and concede two honourable mentions.
8. TOYP
The project is one of the main projects worldwide in Junior Chamber International and therefore also in Junior Chamber International Finland. The aim is to bring up and show young successful persons to big audience. These persons should be under 40 –years old and they must have unique success in their own professional field. Winners will get their awards every year in annual congress of JCI Finland. During this project Finland is coming positively present in international activities.
The history of TOYP is going all the way to 1930 when this project started in USA. It has been official program in JCI Finland since 1990.
Tasks and responsibilities of national project manager of TOYP are:
to find and guide regional project managers of TOYP and to specify tasks
for them together with regional managers
to plan and to realize TOYP brochure
to get together nation-wide jury for judging awards
to plan TOYP ceremony
to inform TOYP winners and to host them in annual congress of JCI Finland
9. MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
National Project Leader`s tasks:
- Leader plans, develops and carries through Project 1000 ( 2004-2006 )
- Leader dates training of Membership Development
- Leader looks after training of Membership Development and gets coaches
- Leader carries through training of Membership Development both in National Conferences and East / South / West / North Conferences
- Leader gets a team of Membership Development (10 Membership Development Managers in 10 areas of Finland )
- Leader makes applications to JCI and EDC to raise money for JCI Finland
- Leader makes material for Membership Development
- Leader helps in Membership Development, develops and makes new ideas to achieve targets
10. FUTURE LEADERS´ CLUB
Backround
Junior Chamber International Finland was founded in 1957. Today Finland has 90 chapters and approximately 4 600 members. Finland is the worlds 8th biggest nation within the Junior Chamber International Organisation if you count the number of members. There has been several Finns in the Board of JCI, 13 Vice Presidents, four Executive Vice Presidents, one Treasurer and 1998 Petri Niskanen was World President. Latest JCI Vice President from Finland is Ms. Katri Salonen this year. As a big NOM our responsibility is to provide candidates to JCI offices also in the future.
Aims and objective
This year JCI Finland has established the Fututure Leaders´ Club in order to provide neccessary information to those finnish members who are intrested about international opportunities and to find the very person who is willing to run for World Presidency in nearby future.
Actionplan and preliminary schedule 2004-2006
Future Leaders´ Club started up in Natonal Congress in Kuopio october 2004. Every member intrested in international career is invited, but those who are ready to seize the opportunity and have the enthuasim to aim towards the highest positions are the main target group.
16.10.2004 FLC Kick Off in National Congress in Kuopio (all ready held)
4.12.2004 FLC lunchmeeting with WP in Pres/Lio in Järvenpää (cancelled)
9.4.2005 FLC meeting with WP and VP in National Congress in Joensuu
15.10.2005 FLC meeting and the future plans in National Congress in Rovaniemi
FLC has own subpage in our intranet
FLC members are activated to participate in our national trainings (The Train, Future Chapter etc.) and also in the JCI seminars and trainings (Prime, Excel, LEAD etc.)
Between meetings contacting and supervising via email on regular basis
Measurements
1.Number of participants and efficiency of career plans
2.Number of candidates to the NOM offices 2007
3.Number of candidates to the international offices 2007-2008
11. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS WITHIN JCI FINLAND
'Bringing Finland to the world and the world to Finland´, is the Finnish International Affairs Project in a nutshell. The core of the project is the so called Team Finlandia, initially founded in 1997 to promote the JCI World President to be, Mr Petri Niskanen. The idea of a special international affairs team turned out to be so successful that it became a permanent resource within Junior Chamber Finland.
The first part 'Bringing Finland to the world´, involves two basic elements; Promoting and marketing international conferences to the Finnish Jaycees and coordinating travel itineraries for the Finnish delegation (usually 150 people or more).
In 'Bringing the world to Finland´, we focus mainly on encouraging twinning relations, both old and new. Receiving international quests and lecturers and making sure that as many Finnish 'Jaycees´ and chambers as possible benefit directly from these visits is another important part of the project.
