SOLA – Social Impact Budgeting Tool development

Last updated: 28.10.2025

Wellbeing Services County of Central Finland initiated a free web tool for evaluating well-being investment effectiveness.

Avoin with Wellbeing Services County of Central Finland, SosPed Center, and Greenstep developed an impact assessment matrix that supports decision-making in municipalities and wellbeing services counties. It combines social quality theory with wellbeing and cost indicators, enabling strategic planning across 1-, 5-, and 10-year timelines. With support from national stakeholders, the open Microsoft Power BI tool helps prioritise actions that improve wellbeing and yield cost savings over time.

The project will result in SOLA 2.0 – a matrix-based web decision-support tool for social and wellbeing impact evaluation in Finnish municipalities and wellbeing services counties.

Status and news

The service is in active use in Finland. We are looking into expanding it to support more comprehensive use cases benefiting from extensive national statistics and open models.

Illustration: Wellbeing Services County of Central Finland

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Duration

9/2024-10/2024

Offered expertise

Stakeholder co-creation, Scientific collaboration, Data integration, Microsoft Power BI, Dashboard development, Digitalised modelling, Software engineering, Openness

Openness

Free tool, mainly open data and models, except code

Partners

Wellbeing Services County of Central Finland, SosPed Center, outsourced partners Avoin and Greenstep

Funder

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)Terveyden edistämisen määräraha

Links 

https://www.hyvaks.fi/hyvinvointialue/tutkimus-ja-kehittaminen/sola-laskentatyokalu

https://www.hyvaks.fi/hyvinvointialue/tutkimus-ja-kehittaminen/sola-hanke