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The winner was announced at Pellervon P\u00e4iv\u00e4, organized annually by Pellervo Coop Center, on April 15, 2026, at Kulttuurikasarmi in Helsinki.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe want to use the results of our cooperative to promote youth employment and prevent social exclusion. Although our actual need for summer substitutes is around 300, next summer we will hire 1,300 seasonal employees, of whom 180 are young people with special support needs. For us, this is a clear value-based decision. Political decision-makers speak eloquently about the need to include everyone in working life, but concrete actions and support for employers seem to be decreasing year by year,\u201d says PKO\u2019s HR Director <strong>Mika-Jussi Mononen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have been developing practices for employing young people with special needs for a long time, and the greatest credit for this award belongs to our supervisors and staff,\u201d Mononen adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PKO\u2019s initiative prevents social exclusion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The jury valued the initiative for its exceptional concreteness. In particular, individualized support and the hiring of job coaches enable genuine success for young people in working life. The jury praised the long-term nature of the work and its focus on a group that often remains invisible. As such, the initiative helps prevent social exclusion and can be replicated in cooperatives of different sizes, increasing its broader societal impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PKO has been carrying out long-term work in employing young people with special support needs for over 15 years. In recent years, the cooperative has employed 100\u2013120 young people annually, providing them with personal support to succeed at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes this a cooperative act is that it promotes key cooperative values such as solidarity, social responsibility, and caring for others, as well as the principle of responsibility for one\u2019s own operating environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Award presented for the third time<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Other finalists in the competition were the entrepreneurship education work of Yritt\u00e4m\u00f6 Cooperative, operating in Keuda, which is a vocational training school for young people and adults in Central Uusimaa. 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