The City of Vantaa’s international activities

Through its international activities, Vantaa promotes its strategic goals and develops as a city where agile services and flexible solutions create well-being and where sustainability is a key priority. In addition, ensuring international accessibility is of utmost importance to Vantaa due to our special logistical location.

The goal of all international activities of the City of Vantaa is to be coordinated, resource-efficient, and aligned with the city’s strategic objectives. Achieving these goals requires openness, strong connections, and smooth cooperation within networks of international partners.

Cities are also part of the European decision-making system. According to a study conducted by the Association of Finnish Municipalities in 2024, 45% of municipal decision-making originates from the European Union. Therefore, it is important for Vantaa to identify the EU decisions and decision-making phases that are relevant to the city’s operations and to engage in active and timely dialogue on them.

Networks and Twin Cities

Through networks and partnerships, Vantaa aims to learn good practices and solutions and to address the challenges the city faces.

City networks:

• Eurocities
  Eurocities is a network of large European cities with more than 200 member cities. Eurocities promotes both EU advocacy for cities and shared learning among them in order to provide better services to residents. In addition to Vantaa, the Finnish member cities of Eurocities are Helsinki, Espoo, Tampere, Oulu and Turku.
   
• Airport Regions Council
   
• UNESCO Learning Cities
   
• Nordic Safe Cities
   
• Child-Friendly Cities

Twin cities

Vantaa has 9 twin cities:

• Boryspil, Ukraine
• Huddinge, Sweden
• Jinan, China
• District of Rastatt, Germany
• Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic
• Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
• Salgótarján, Hungary
• Słupsk, Poland
• District of Matte Yehuda, Israel