Board and committee bulletins for the members

The announcements from the Board meetings are published in Finnish. You can find the announcements from recent years in Finnish by changing the language in the top corner of the page.

The minutes of the meetings, including those from previous years, can be found on the website.

What if the Red Cross were founded today? How would we organize our aid work? Through what kinds of operating models would we best achieve our shared purpose of helping those who need help the most? In what ways could we work to ensure that the need for help and those in need of it are even more at the center of the Finnish Red Cross’s operations? We want to find answers to these questions together, through open discussion and by considering different perspectives.

To coordinate and lead the work on changing operating models, the Finnish Red Cross Board has appointed the Committee for Renewed Operating Models.

The committee consists of:

Chair: Dan Sundqvist

Vice-Chair: Elisabeth Rintaluoma

Members:

• Sinituuli Dufva
• Harri Jokiranta
• Raisa Kuusisto
• Jooel Niittynen
• Karoliina Pilli-Sihvola
• Katri Vataja (Itla)
• Ferran Cobertera (Spanish Red Cross)

The presenting officer is Secretary General Eero Rämö

Committee meeting schedule:

4+ meetings in 2025, 1–3 meetings in 2026

The goal of renewing operating models is to enable helping those in the most vulnerable situations. We do not yet know through what changes or how this should happen in practice. Therefore, the goal is to engage in a shared, open discussion during 2024–2025 and, based on these discussions, present a proposal for new alternatives and development paths to the General Assembly in the summer of 2026.

More information about the reform on the page Red Cross is evolving

The Committee for Renewed Operating Models of the Finnish Red Cross mandate and composition.pdf

The Expert Group on First Aid and Health Activities is tasked with serving as Finnish Red Cross's expert body on matters relating to first aid, health promotion, psychosocial support, and health security, including the development and direction of related content.

The Expert Group meets four times a year. You can find summaries of matters discussed at the meetings in Finnish by clicking on the Finnish language option in the upper corner of the page.

For more information, contact the Expert Group's secretary
Kati Laitila, kati.laitila@redcross.fi, 040 589 5778.

The Chair of the Expert Group is Senior Physician in Emergency MedicineSanna Hoppu, sanna.hoppu@pirha.fi, 050 362 4711

The Finnish Red Cross national youth committee is an expert group appointed by the Board of the Finnish Red Cross on issues concerning youth participation, youth work and activities, youth membership, and young volunteers.

In its mandate:

• the committee acts as an active advocate and opinion former for young people within the Finnish Red Cross,
• the committee promotes youth participation in all Red Cross activities,
  promotes youth participation in the organization’s positions of trust and responsibility throughout the organization, and implements and develops the youth representation system,
• the committee supports with its expertise the development work of the staff and the committee for the development of young people's voluntary activities,
• the committee acts as the representative of the Finnish Red Cross nationally and internationally.

Chairperson
Riitta Ylineva (riitta.ylineva@redcross.fi)
Vice Chairperson of the Board of the Finnish Red Cross

Vice Chairperson
Taika Vaulo

Members

• Sofia Henriksson
• Roosa Penttilä
• Christina Piirainen
• Elisabeth Rintaluoma
• Matias Sallinen

Deputy members

• Miisa Köykkä
• Iris Naukkarinen
• Johannes Väisänen

The bulletins are published in Finnish and you can read them by changing the language in the top right corner of the page.

The task of the Finnish Red Cross Committee for the Development of Youth Volunteering (2024–2026) is to:

• map out various measures to engage more young people in the Red Cross. Which working methods best support young people's connection to the organisation? What type of activities retain young people in the organisation, either in the short or long term?
• identify and anticipate trends of change in civil society from the perspective of young people's volunteering and civic engagement, and summarise their significance for the work of the Red Cross.
• create a vision (dream state) for Red Cross activities from the perspective of young people, and map out the factors that hinder the achievement of this vision.
• seek solutions for how the Red Cross can function as an equal and attractive environment for young people in volunteering as well as organisational and societal influence, and in doing so increase the number of young people participating in the organisation's activities in various roles.
• develop action recommendations for the Red Cross based on the solutions and pilots identified.

Bulletins of the commettee are published in Finnish and can be read by switching the language in the upper right corner of the page.