The Virtual Finland service platform will improve Finland's competitiveness, enabling the delivery of seamless digital services from the public and private sector for different target groups coming to Finland. The aim of the investment is to offer a single service interface to people who would like to reside in Finland, starting with employees immigrating to the country. The scope of the service platform is expected to cover public services (such as digital identity, e-residency, or patent registration) and provide the possibility to support private services (including commercial insurance, banking, accounting, financial, legal and other services).
The measure will cover the following elements and will be completed by the end of 2025:
- By 31 December 2022, the first production version of ‘Virtual Finland’ platform was made available, supporting at minimum the following functionality: identification of a person and digital identity, reliable sharing of data between the different parties involved in the platform.
- By 31 December 2025, at least one service process, notably the entry process for a non-Finnish private individual, will be fully supported by the Virtual Finland platform.
- The Virtual Finland platform is expected to successively integrate services for additional target groups (higher education students, non-listed companies, seasonal workers, tourists, exporting companies).
A total of EUR 4 million in funding has been allocated to this project from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). Finland supports the project by an additional EUR 2 million.
More information can be found by following the links below:
- Reference
- P2C2I2
- Project locations
- Finland
- EU contribution
- €4 000 000
- Project website
- https://thevirtualfinland.fi/en/frontpage