The Advisory Board for Sectoral Research was established in 2007 to coordinate the overall steering of state sectoral research. Its action is geared to support and strengthen performance management of sectoral research in each field of administration. The aim is to improve ministries' commissioning know-how, enhance the targeting of sectoral research and step up the utilisation of research over administrative boundaries.

The mandate of the Advisory Board for Sectoral Research is to:

• steer and develop sectoral research and its utilisation within government, step up inter-ministerial and cross-sectoral cooperation on sectoral research and take initiative in matters relating to them
• coordinate sectoral research programmes involving several ministries
• put forward proposals for the implementation of sectoral research programmes and monitor their implementation as determined by the ministries and other funding organisations and report on the implementation to the government
• put forward proposals for structural development of sectoral research, and
• carry out other tasks assigned by the government or the Ministry of Education.
  

Contact infomation  

Visiting address: Ministry of Education and Culture, Meritullinkatu 1, 00170 Helsinki 

Secretary General, PhD 
Sari Löytökorpi 
tel. +358-(0)9-160 77035
gsm +358-(0)40-357 6069
fax   +358-(0)9-160 77137
E-mail:  firstname.lastname@minedu.fi

Planning Officer Ulla Suomela 
tel. +358-(0)9-1607 7039
fax  +358-(0)9-1607 7136
E-mail: firstname.lastname@minedu.fi