Tag: Helsinki Metropolitan Area
Heavy Traffic in Vantaa
One of the goals of Vantaa’s transport policy program is to ensure the smooth operation of freight traffic on main routes and to support delivery traffic in city centers.
New Urban Policy Council chairperson Kalland: Our education system is not as equal as we think – family has larger impact than grades
The new Urban Policy Council is an autonomous and independent research panel that produces a critical report of a chosen urban policy theme every year. Its first report, published today, is about education and learning, with a particular focus on the segregation of learning and well-being in early
Flooding in Varistonoja in Vantaa and Niipperinoja in Espoo will be reduced by water management structures – event for residents explaining the measures on 1 February
The water quality of Lake Pitkäjärvi will be improved and floods in its catchment area will be reduced by implementing natural water management structures at selected sites in Vantaa and Espoo. These measures will be discussed in an event for residents organised on Thursday 1 February.
Resident survey provided more information on the problems of the Pitkäjärvi catchment area
A resident survey conducted in May collected residents' experiences of flooding and eutrophication problems in the Pitkäjärvi catchment area. The information will be utilised in a project to find solutions for the area’s problems by means of natural water management.
New solutions are sought for flooding and nutrient pollution in the drainage area of Lake Pitkäjärvi – survey and event for local residents
The waters of Lake Pitkäjärvi, extending from Espoo to Vantaa, and its drainage area have become eutrophic in places, and flooding is frequent in the area. The problems are being solved by investigating the possibilities for water management in the area and by implementing practical solutions to
Real Estate and Business fairs
City of Vantaa's professionals participate in domestic and international real estate and investment fairs. This year you can meet us at Bonnier Business Arena, MIPIM and Expo Real.
A recent report says that jobs, young people and foreign-language speakers are moving to large urban areas but this trend is not taken into account at the national level
The proportional significance of the six largest cities and their metropolitan areas increases as their population, number of jobs, supply of labour and positive net migration increase, a report on the need for labour ordered by the six largest cities reveals. This trend differs from the rest of the
10 years of open data in Helsinki Metropolitan Area
To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Helsinki Region Infoshare is holding an anniversary webinar on November 11th 2021, setting course on ever more open cities. Open data and open application programming interfaces (APIs) will form an important basis for business enterprise in future.
Cities in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area have surveyed the well-being of their residents
The main results of the Wellbeing Survey for the Helsinki Metropolitan Area conducted in spring 2021 have been published.
Virtual recruitment event UusiDuuni 2021 brings together jobs and employers in the metropolitan area
The biggest recruitment event of the autumn, UusiDuuni 2021, will take place on 3 November 2021. UusiDuuni 2021 is the first joint recruitment event between the employment services of Espoo, Helsinki and Vantaa, Uusimaa TE Services as well as the education consortiums Helsinki Vocational College