KAINUU ORIENTEERING WEEK 2025
PARTNERS
ELITE PARTNER (H/D21E Elite Classes)
Partner: Free for 2025
MAIN PARTNERS (Main Cooperation Partners)
1. Finish (H/D16-20E Classes)
Partner: Noname
Partner Description: Noname is a company founded in 1999, specializing in the design, manufacturing, and marketing of sportswear. Noname offers a comprehensive range of cross-country skiing, athletics, and orienteering clothing for clubs, with desired colors and designs chosen by customers. In recent years, an increasing number of businesses have discovered Noname's versatile range for enhancing corporate image. Noname is a significant partner of Kainuu Orienteering Week, and we warmly recommend Noname products for various needs, including technical apparel for organizations, clubs, and individual consumers.
Website: www.nonamesport.com
2. Finish
Partner: Vuokatti Sport
Partner Description: Vuokatti Sport – A Hub for Elite Athletes and Active Lifestyles
Vuokatti Sport is a versatile sports and training center in Kainuu, offering excellent facilities for elite athletes, fitness enthusiasts, and families who enjoy an active lifestyle. It is particularly known for its high-quality cross-country skiing and biathlon conditions, but the area also offers opportunities for various other sports throughout the year. Modern training facilities, expert coaching, and the beautiful natural surroundings make Vuokatti Sport an ideal place for training, camps, and improving overall well-being.
Website: www.vuokattisport.fi
3. Finish
Partner: Intersport Piipponen
Partner Description: Intersport Piipponen – Sports and Leisure Experts in Kainuu
The company offers a wide range of sports and leisure clothing, footwear, and equipment from well-known quality brands. The professional staff helps customers find the right products for different sports and needs.
Intersport Piipponen has stores in the centr of Sotkamo, Vuokatti, and Kuhmo.
Intersport Piipponen has been serving its customers for 70 years, and the company's founder, Erkki Piipponen, celebrated his 90th birthday in March 2025.
Today, Tapio Piipponen serves as the store owner of Intersport Piipponen.
Website: www.facebook.com/IntersportPiipponen
4. Finish (Children's Classes)
Partner: OP Kainuu
Partner Description: OP Kainuu (officially known as Kainuun Osuuspankki) is a full-service bank operating in the Kajaani economic area, offering you a unique combination of banking and insurance services conveniently under one roof. It is part of the Finnish OP Group and one of the OP Group's regional banks.
We serve our banking and insurance customers in two full-service branches and one service point across three municipalities. Additionally, you have access to a user-friendly online service and expert phone support. You can also find our bank on Facebook: www.facebook.com/opkainuu.
We are a member-owned, strongly developing, and forward-looking bank. Our mission is to promote the financial success of our customers. We also take responsibility for our operating environment and contribute to its vitality.
At your service are approximately 60 skilled and reliable banking and insurance professionals. They are ready to tell you more about our unique combination of banking and insurance services.
Website: www.op.fi/web/op-kainuu/etusivu
5. Finish (Open Courses)
Partner: Municipality of Sotkamo
Partner Description: Sotkamo – A Naturally Beautiful Destination for Tourism and Sports
Sotkamo is a municipality in Kainuu with around 10,000 residents, known for its stunning natural surroundings, diverse tourism services, and strong sports tradition. At the heart of the municipality is Vuokatti, one of Finland’s most popular travel destinations, where top-class sporting opportunities, ski slopes, cross-country skiing tracks, mountain biking routes, and year-round services are all available.
Nature plays a central role in Sotkamo. The blue hills, vast forests, and crystal-clear lakes offer excellent opportunities for hiking, fishing, and other outdoor activities. The hiking trails of the Vuokatti hills and Hiidenportti National Park are popular destinations, attracting visitors with their beautiful landscapes and peaceful atmosphere.
Sports are an integral part of daily life in Sotkamo. Sotkamon Jymy is one of Finland’s most successful baseball teams, and Vuokatti Sport provides top facilities for both fitness enthusiasts and competitive athletes. The Sotkamo sports high school is especially well-known for its winter sports training, and many international top athletes have honed their skills in Sotkamo.
The vitality of the municipality is based on tourism, sports, and diverse business activities. Sotkamo is a growing and developing community where a vibrant local culture, excellent facilities for an active lifestyle, and the tranquility of Kainuu’s nature come together.
Website: www.sotkamo.fi
6. Finish (Open Courses)
Partner: Kainuu Regional Council
Partner Description:
Website: www.kainuu.fi
FINISH PARTNERS
1. Finish
Partner: Mapline Oy
Partner Description: Mapline Ltd adds unique value to customer marketing and communication by providing expert location-based and mapping services. Communication includes expertly designed map data and efficient coordination of various map products, such as printed maps, print and display boards, and online maps. All of this is done for the benefit of the customer and to save costs.
Website: www.mapline.fi
2. Finish
Partner: Feelia Oy
Partner Description: Feelia – Bringing a Better Tomorrow to the Table Today
Feelia is an innovative pioneer in ready-made meals, founded in 2007 in Pyhäntä, Finland. Our mission is to bring future food solutions to every professional kitchen today. We prepare delicious, healthy, and safe ready meals using a unique autoclave technique. This technology ensures that our products have a long shelf life, helping to reduce food waste while addressing major challenges in the food industry.
We offer forward-thinking professional kitchens nourishing, impactful, and flexible food solutions, supporting the global transformation of food culture and enabling development towards a more sustainable and profitable future. We develop products based on our customers' wishes and feedback. With service models that provide savings, we create value for our customers, from municipalities to stores and restaurants.
All Feelia meals are made in our own factories in Finland, located in Pyhäntä and Kokkola.
Website: www.feelia.fi
3. Finish
Partner: Kainuun Sanomat
Partner Description: Kainuun Sanomat was established in 1918 amidst great patriotic enthusiasm. Kainuun Sanomat is a six-day, independent regional newspaper.
A characteristic feature of Kainuun Sanomat has been the pursuit of developmental area policy goals. Over the decades, as a regional newspaper, it has contributed to creating Kainuu's own regional identity. As a newspaper for rural areas, it has constantly aimed to provide an alternative perspective to the major media in the capital and congested Finland.
Website: www.kainuunsanomat.fi
4. Finish
Partner: Kaisanet Oy
Partner Description: Your new connections in life
Kaisanet Oy is an expert company in the Kainuu, Upper Savonia, and North Karelia regions, providing network services, telecommunications, ICT services, and expertise in digitalization. We offer digital solutions for everyday life and special occasions, as well as devices and connections. Everything you need for communication.
Website: www.kaisanet.fi
5. Finish
Partner: Pölkky Oy
Partner Description: Pölkky Oy – The Leading Wood Processor in Northern Finland
Pölkky Oy is the largest privately owned wood processing company in Northern Finland, with its headquarters located in Kuusamo. The company operates sawmills and further processing plants in Kuusamo, Taivalkoski, Kajaani, and Oulu, ensuring efficient production and customer service.
Pölkky Oy's product range includes sawn timber, planed wood products, treated wood, laminated wood, and other wood-based products. The company annually purchases approximately 1.4 million cubic meters of pine and spruce sawlogs, all of which are PEFC certified, ensuring compliance with sustainable forest management principles.
Founded in 1968 as a family business, the ownership of Pölkky Oy transferred to the Austrian company Pfeifer Holding GmbH in January 2023. As part of the Pfeifer Group, Pölkky Oy continues to operate, maintaining its strong position in the Finnish wood processing industry.
Website: www.polkky.com
6. Finish
Partner: Praecom
Partner Description: Praecom Oy – Expert in Smart Work and Customer Environments
Praecom Oy is a Finnish ICT company that provides versatile solutions for developing work and customer environments. The company's service offering includes communication solutions, presentation systems, IT services, display communication, as well as office supplies and furniture.
The company's goal is to be the most attractive partner for organizations on their transformation journey towards modern work environments, where technology and services support smooth and efficient workflows.
Praecom's store in Kainuu is located in Kajaani at Kuurnantie 7.
Website: https://shop.praecom.fi/
OTHER PARTNERS
Our event has several tens of various partnerships: sales partners, restaurant and cafe service partners, partners related to the construction of the competition center, marketing cooperation partners, etc. You can check our current partners on the front page at the bottom. With each partner, we negotiate separately about our specific collaboration and visibility package, aiming to build a partnership that benefits both parties as much as possible.
If your company is interested in a partnership for the year 2025, please contact the secretary general: Jukka Liuha, jukka.liuha@rastiviikko.fi, +358 44 7679533
OTHER KAINUU ORIENTEERING WEEK SIDE EVENTS
Kainuu Trail Hossa National Park (Finland) on June 28, 2025 - Trail running event in the stunning Hossa National Park
Kainuu Mountain Bike Orienteering Week (Kainuu MTBO Week) from June 29 to July 4th 2025
OTHER ORIENTEERING EVENTS
Jukola Relay
Fin5 Orienteering Week
World Orienteering Championships 7-12 July 2025 in Kuopio
OTHER COOPERATION EVENTS
Endurance Experience Kainuu events
Lost In Kainuu Adventure Race on September 5-6, 2025 (Adventure Race)
