Assessment and evaluation of impacts in arts and culture
The significance of impact assessment has become centrally important in societies and policy making, including cultural policy. Several impact assessment projects have also been done at Cupore over the years.
In 2015, Cupore started working, in co-operation with the Ministry of Education and Culture, towards developing methodologies and an information base on assessing the impacts of cultural policy. As part of this development work, two working documents have been published in Cupore’s publications series of working papers in Finnish in 2016. The first publications is a general introduction on impact assessment in cultural policy and the second one a review of Cupore’s evaluation and assessment work over the years.
See also Cupore’s earlier research project Methodological problems in assessing cultural impacts (2003-2006).
Project researchers
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Sakarias Sokka Deputy Director, Senior Researcher, Docent in Cultural Policy, D.Soc.Sc., MA +358 50 387 2728 sakarias.sokka@cupore.fi Profile -
Maria Hirvi-Ijäs Senior Researcher, PhD, Associate Professor in Contemporary Art +358 50 463 5575 maria.hirvi-ijas@cupore.fi Profile -
Check out these projects
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Ongoing research
State of Cultural Policy
The State of Cultural Policy project aims to improve the overall understanding of the current state of cultural policy in Finland and to promote informed public discussion. The project has published the State of Cultural Policy 2025 report and created platforms for knowledge-based discussion through Timeout dialogues organised across Finland, as well as through the State of Cultural Policy event held for the first time in May 2026. The event also piloted the cultural policy governance barometer presented in the report.
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Assessment of the Impact of the Luova Verkko Coordination Project
The study conducted by Cupore assessed how the Luova Verkko coordination project, implemented by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland and funded by the ESF+, succeeded in developing the operating conditions of small and medium-sized actors in the arts, culture, and creative sectors in relation to the ESF+ funding instrument.