Entrepreneurship Societies in Finland

A Entrepreneurship Society, it’s a student-driven non-profit organization to be the voice of entrepreneurship in the Universities.

Impact Report 2022

Startup Foundation gathered data from all the Finnish Entrepreneurship Societies in order to better understand their impact. The 2022 report is the first report on this topic. The Foundation intends to gather data on a yearly basis in the future.

Read the report here

Key takeaways from the 2022 Impact Report

10% of students are connected with Entrepreneurship Society events
Entrepreneurship Societies are run with a total of 600 volunteers yearly
600 events were organised
All the ES’s had 114 board members in total
There are currently 18 active Entrepreneurship Societies in Finland

Entrepreneurship Societies in Finland

As of 2023, there are now 18 active Entrepreneurship Societies in almost every university or university of applied sciences in Finland. The majority of these organizations are volunteer-based and non-profit, run by students who are responsible for organizing startup activities in their universities.