Helsinki recognised as Child Friendly City
Helsinki is the first Nordic capital to be recognised as a UNICEF Child Friendly City. The recognition is given to cities that promote the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child with their activities and development work.[Helsinki Unicef Child Friendly City]
The Child Friendly Municipality model is a UNICEF-supplied tool that supports municipal governments in their effort to secure a good childhood for its residents, especially those in vulnerable positions. The initiative is founded on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Child Friendly Cities
A new light rail line serving the Helsinki metropolitan area was taken into use amid much fanfare on Saturday, 21 October. Running crosstown between Espoo’s Keilaniemi and Helsinki’s Itäkeskus districts, the new light rail line is a substantial investment in zero-emissions public transport. It also brings the City of Helsinki one step closer to achieving its goal of carbon neutrality by the year 2030.[Running crosstown between Espoo’s Keilaniemi and Helsinki’s Itäkeskus districts, the new light rail line is a substantial investment in zero-emissions public transport.] A new light rail line
US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with the Mayor of Helsinki Juhana Vartiainen during his 2 June visit to Helsinki City Hall.US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visited Helsinki City Hall on Friday, 2 June to give a speech at an event arranged by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) in cooperation with the US Embassy in Finland and The City of Helsinki.
During his visit, Secretary Blinken met with Helsinki Mayor Juhana Vartiainen for a brief discussion. Among other things during the discussion, Mayor Vartiainen shared the many ways Finland’s capital city
The City of Helsinki-owned energy company Helen will cease operations at its Hanasaari power plant in Helsinki, Finland, on 1 April 2023.[Hanasaar power plant in Helsinki Finland Credits Helen]
Helsinki has pledged to become carbon neutral by the year 2030. At the moment, the city’s most noteworthy source of direct emissions is district heating. Shutting down the coal-fired power plant in Hanasaari will result in a significant emissions reduction. According to estimates, Helsinki’s total emissions will decrease by up to 20 per cent, and Helen’s emissions will fall by 40 per cent. The
The Eurocities Economic Development Forum 2023, organized in Helsinki, Finland, will bring over 200 participants from around Europe together to talk about cities’ role in tackling pressing global challenges and in enabling a fair digital and green transition. Representatives of media are welcome to follow the livestream on 23–24 March.From the energy and cost of living crisis to climate change, cities are using local economic policy to equip themselves with the tools to tackle global challenges. This year’s Eurocities Economic Development Forum will explore how cities across Europe are
The City of Helsinki, Finland, has launched a tender competition to sell the Old Customs House in Katajanokka for redevelopment. The goal of the competition is to find a technically and economically feasible and architecturally outstanding overall solution for redeveloping the building.[Old Customs House Helsinki Finland] The Old Customs House in Katajanokka. Photo: Antti Pulkkinen
With this competition, the City of Helsinki is hoping to find a suitable new owner with the resources required to renovate and redevelop the building. The final outcome will be determined by price.
A joint award by the City of Helsinki and Helsinki Design Week recognizes a designer or a design team for making Helsinki a better place to live in. The winner of the 2022 Helsinki Design Award is designer Päivi Raivio.[Designer Pivi Raivio]
During her career, Päivi Raivio has dedicated her work to creating better public spaces. Together with citizens and various communities, Raivio has made the city squares more vibrant and the daycare yards more green as well as conducted versatile urban space experiments, not only in Helsinki but in other Finnish cities and internationally as well.
The role of design in urban development will be at the heart of the 'Design and the City: Learnings from a 10-Year Journey' seminar to be held at Helsinki City Hall on 6 September.[Design seminar Helsinki Finland 6 September 2022]
Helsinki, the capital of Finland, was the World Design Capital in 2012 . The year marked the launch of a broader use of design in Helsinki’s city organisation.
Over the course of this ten-year journey, design has earned a permanent place as one of the city’s core functions. The city
Helsinki’s programme at Beijing Design Week on September attracted over 10,000 visitors on-site and via virtual platforms. The installation built in the exhibition hall of Beijing Design Week and the programme held there showcased the building blocks of good life in the capital of Finland, sustainable urban development and education innovations. In the spirit of the Helsinki themes, the materials and furniture of the installation will be reused after the festival.[Helsinkis installation in the Beijing Design Week]
Helsinki’s Designing Better Life programme at the largest design festival
The City of Helsinki is holding a competition to find a partner for the development and implementation of Makasiiniranta in Helsinki’s South Harbour. 11 groups have been selected and will submit their plans later in the year.[Makasiiniranta in Helsinki Finland]
Helsinki, Finland, 30 June 2021 - The City of Helsinki’s two-phase quality and concept competition to redevelop Makasiiniranta – the last old harbour area to be transformed for public use in the city – has entered the first planning phase as today 11 partners have been approved to develop and submit plans by December 2021.
· From floating islands to energy market reform, the winners of the City of Helsinki’s €1 million global competition help point the way to solutions that will help cities around the world decarbonise their urban heating grids.
· The Helsinki Energy Challenge illustrates the diversity of approaches necessary to achieve a flexible and resilient system.www.energychallenge.hel.fi
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HELSINKI, FINLAND: An international jury has selected four winners from the ten finalists in the Helsinki Energy Challenge. The four winning teams were announced
Four experiments to combat marine litter in the Baltic Sea have received support from the City of Helsinki. A startup named Clewat tested a new kind of waste collection ship that effectively collects macro and microplastics from seawater, while Innogreen developed a green wall to filter plastic debris out of stormwater. Bioharbour analysed plastic volumes in cruise ships’ food waste that enters the Baltic Sea, and Bloft Design Lab developed a giant 3D printer to print SUP boards from plastic waste retrieved from shore areas. The experiments were conducted during 2020 in Helsinki’s coastal and
The City of Helsinki invites you to join a discussion about the future of urban transport. The City of Helsinki invites you to join a Webinar to discuss about the future of urban transport.
17th of December 2020 at 17:30-19:00 (UTC+2 - Helsinki Local Time)
Forecasting the future is a prerequisite for creating the most functional city in the world. The webinar will discuss the City of Helsinki’s future analysis of transport and its findings.
How will global phenomena affect urban transport? How can cities and their residents be prepared for these changes? The analysis
The City of Helsinki invites you to join a Webinar to discuss the future of urban transport.
The City of Helsinki invites you to join a Webinar to discuss the future of urban transport.
In the Webinar, ‘Let’s talk about the future’, we will present the findings of the City of Helsinki’s analysis of future transport. The analysis explores expected changes over the coming decades, and the strategies that can be implemented to adapt to them.
We believe our findings will contribute to a better understanding of future possibilities and help cities to develop their transport
Helsinki wants to be one of world’s most captivating locations for innovative start-up activities and the most attractive competence hub for enterprises and individuals who want to make the world a better place. Here, Helsinki and the Slush startup community share the same values and goals. This is why Helsinki and Slush keep working together this autumn to develop and build the future of startup activities.The current coronavirus pandemic challenges the traditional operating models and forces us to come up with new ways of doing things. This year, Slush has opted for the Node by
