Community and Groups

Our mission is to grow a community in Finland that is aware of effective altruism, implements it in their lives, and helps others do good with effectiveness in mind.

Activities Local groups Board

Effective Altruism Finland ry

EA organisations in Finland bring people together to discuss ideas around effective altruism, and run activities supporting direct impact and effective donations.

Activities

We organise various events throughout the year to raise awareness of effective altruism in Finland and to support more effective philanthropy. Everyone interested in effective altruism is welcome to join us!

The discussion evenings delve into topics related to effective altruism such as personal values, effective means of influence, animal rights, goal setting and longtermism.

Highlights from our activities:

  • We provide career advice.
  • We organise an intro programme with local groups 1–2 times per year — a multi-week introductory course on effective altruism.
  • In 2026 we organised a one-day EA summit in Helsinki on 28 February.
  • We organise various events, workshops, panel discussions and reading circles.
  • We support the creation and growth of new groups in Finland.
  • We maintain the Finnish-language website Lahjoittaminen.fi on effective giving.
  • We work closely with the Nordic effective altruism communities.

The best way to keep up to date with our events is to follow our events calendar on the homepage and join our email list.

EA Finland uses Telegram as its discussion platform. Join the channel.

Annual reports

We publish yearly reports on our activities:

Contact us

eafinland@altruismi.fi. Individuals can be contacted by sending a message to firstname.surname@altruismi.fi

Support persons

Ada-Maaria Hyvärinen, Arimo Kerkelä.
More information here.

EA community discussion EA community talk EA Finland retreat EA community sauna evening

Other established EA groups in Finland

Aalto Effective Altruism

Aalto Effective Altruism

UNIVERSITY GROUP aalto@altruismi.fi

High impact careers. Upskilling. Intensive programs. Chill hangouts. Productive discussions. Friendships.

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Effective Altruism Tampere

Effective Altruism Tampere

LOCAL AND UNIVERSITY GROUP eatampere@altruismi.fi

The Tampere group meets for a weekly reading circle and organizes other EA events in the region.

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Effective Altruism Helsinki

Effective Altruism Helsinki

UNIVERSITY GROUP helsinki@altruismi.fi

EAHY is the oldest EA community in Finland and is based at the University of Helsinki. The group has, among other things, produced a donation guide for student organisations.

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Starting groups

Kuopio

eakuopio@altruismi.fi

English only

Jyväskylä

Discussion events and reading circles.

eajyvaskyla@altruismi.fi

@effective_altruism_jkl

Lahti

ealahti@altruismi.fi

Can't find a group where you live? Contact us at eafinland@altruismi.fi

We also occasionally organise remote events and our intro programme includes remote groups.

Effective Altruism Finland ry board 2026

Dmitrii Gusev

Dmitrii Gusev

Chair

Hi, I'm Dmitrii, the chair of EAFI. I study Computer Science at Aalto University. I found EA through my interest in AI alignment and have been part of the EA community for over 2 years, being active both in Aalto EA and EAFI. Most of my free time is dedicated to EA and AI safety, and I'd gladly talk about either.

Vesa Hautala

Vesa Hautala

Vice Chair

Hi, I'm Vesa, a member of the EA Finland board. I work at Christians for Impact as a career advisor and research coordinator. I've been involved with EA Finland for over five years now in various roles as a board member, organiser, and an employee and also with my local group in Tampere. In terms of my EA interests, I've been mainly involved in the meta and community building space so I'm broadly interested in many different cause areas.

Sara Mansnerus

Sara Mansnerus

Secretary

Hi, I'm Sara, the secretary of the board. I study law and I'm interested in the rights of other species, social justice and the impacts of AI on democracies and power concentration. I like reading this and that, especially parodies and satire.

Alva Anttonen

Alva Anttonen

Treasurer

Hi! I'm Alva, the treasurer of EA Finland. I've been involved in building the Finnish EA community for over five years both in Aalto EA and EAFI. I'm interested in the best visions and plans on how to improve the world, and I've found many through EA.

Xylix Pelttari

Xylix Pelttari

Board Member

Hi! I'm Xylix. I'm interested in finding good solutions for problems that matter. I think the world could be much better for everyone. I have a couple years of experience in EA Finland's board and other activities. For my other experience, I have studied computer science, worked in software, startups, and done entrepreneur stuff. Recently I've been trying to figure out what is actually going on in artificial intelligence currently, and separately what good futures could look like.

Tea Tönnov

Tea Tönnov

Board Member

Hi, I'm Tea. I've been involved with EA for a few years while living in Brussels, and it's been nice to find an EA community here in Finland as well. I am particularly concerned about the suffering of farm animals and global health. I also think a lot about longtermism and the future of humanity in the age of artificial intelligence, but perhaps with less emotion. I am interested in cognitive biases and cultural narratives that prevent the reduction of suffering. I have studied process engineering and I work at a sustainability department of an industrial company.

Kauri-Viljar Vahter

Kauri-Viljar Vahter

Board Member

Hello! I'm Kauri-Viljar, a board member of EA Finland. I study computer science at the University of Helsinki. I found EA when I started my studies in 2022. I have several years of volunteering experience in various student organizations. I hope that experience will be valuable to EA Finland.

Mikko Kangassalo

Mikko Kangassalo

Deputy Member

Hello! I'm a deputy board member of EA Finland and current Chair of EA Tampere. My educational background is in Philosophy and Internet Studies, with a subject teacher's qualification to also teach Psychology and Life Stance Education. After graduation, I have been working on an independent monograph; examining how divisive ideas spread disproportionately on social media and what could be done to mitigate that by better platform design. I'm also interested in cosmopolitan virtue ethics, meditation/mindfulness, and global mental health. Within EA, I'm also curious about integral altruism (int/a).

Ville Kokko

Ville Kokko

Deputy Member

Hi. My name is Ville, and I'm a deputy member of the board. I've been involved with EA Finland for some years, and I'm trying to get EA activities started in my home city of Turku. I finished my Ph.D. in philosophy at the end of 2025, I'm studying computer science, and now I'm trying to get started a project where I'd be researching the philosophy of artificial intelligence in a way related to AI safety. I'm also interested in many other topics, especially tackling systemic problems.

Soili Kasanen

Soili Kasanen

Deputy Member

Hi! I'm Soili Kasanen, deputy member of the board. I'm a physician practicing lifestyle medicine at NHS Eloisa. Aiming for the root causes of different problematic issues is my passion. Therefore I've created a science based home page Kasasen kootut, which contains information about lifestyle medicine and especially about nutritional studies. Also the rights of non-human animals are dear to me.

Ville Seppälä

Ville Seppälä

Deputy Member

Hi! I'm Ville, deputy board member and communications person. I'm an economist by education and have worked on climate change stuff and data visualizations. Now I'm especially interested in longtermism and existential risks in general, and those interests have made me take part in EA for about a year now.

Effective Altruism Finland ry is a non-profit organisation. We help people use their work, careers, and resources as effectively as possible to solve the world's most critical problems. Our activities are free for participants thanks to volunteers, project funding from Effective Ventures UK, and member donations.