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The series of social security dialogues held by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and the Timeout Foundation brought out a wide variety of views and development suggestions from citizens on the future of social security. The outcomes of the dialogues will be presented at a webinar on 15 May 2025.

Timeout Foundation participated in the EUSTORY Next Generation Summit, held under the theme “Encountering Divides.” This year’s event took place in Riga, with over 100 young participants from more than 20 countries. We participated in the event by hosting a workshop titled Bridging Differences: Understanding Through Dialogue.

The dialogues are part of the national social security reform. Population ageing and declining birth rates are putting pressure on the financing of social security in Finland. Finland’s social security...

The joint project Scouts, Peace and Security, led by the Guides and Scouts of Finland, the Nepal Scouts, and the Timeout Foundation, strengthens the voices of young people in Nepal and promotes peacebuilding skills through the Timeout Dialogue method. During the project, 64 youth-led Timeout Dialogues were organized, with decision-makers joining the conversations as equal participants.

Workshop in IAEVG conference brought together career practitioners around the globe to explore human and more-than-human entanglement in guidance. Timeout dialogue turned out to be a thought-provoking method to rethink together how supporting educational paths and careers could and should be done in the times of ecological crises. In this blog post, Sara Peltola shares her experiences and reflections from the workshop.

Iina, Minna, Terhi and Pirjo from the Police University College (Polamk) opened up about their experiences with the Timeout-method from the perspective of different projects in the police. In this diablog, we get to hear how the Timeout-method has been used in projects like the social communication of the police, the fight against organised crime and the pre-trial investigation of human trafficking offenses.