OP withdraws from children’s Fine Arts Competition in Finland

OP Financial Group has decided to no longer host the Fine Arts Competition for children and young people from 2021 onwards. We are turning our attention to the focus areas named in our corporate responsibility programme, including efforts to improve financial literacy in all age groups.

As of the start of 2021, OP will end its membership in the Jugend Creativ community, which organises the international Fine Arts Competition, and will no longer host the national contest in Finland. 

In the future, we will turn our attention more clearly to the focus areas named in our corporate responsibility programme. Our aim is to create more effective methods for financial literacy education and support cooperation with local education institutions. We have national and local partnerships with whom OP cooperative banks cooperate to promote financial literacy among young people the year round.

Educational content on the redesigned Hippo and Hippo.fi website for children also stimulates creative activities in addition to promoting financial literacy and physical health.