Tag: Prizes
Vantaa’s Food Waste Project Wins Prestigious Milan Pact Awards 2025
The City of Vantaa and Yhteinen pöytä’s collaborative initiative to reduce food waste has been internationally recognized with a Milan Pact Awards 2025 prize. Vantaa received the award for its innovative and impactful work in promoting sustainable urban food policy.
Who deserves the Vantaa Culture Prize - nominate your favourite by 16 July
Each year the City of Vantaa awards two cultural prizes.
We Vantaa folk are champions and now it's time to celebrate – welcome to Innovation Festival Week!
Vantaa is the European Rising Innovative City 2021! To celebrate our international recognition, we will celebrate Innovation Festival Week from 24 to 30 October 2022 with a series of events, an inspiring webinar series and the launch of the best ideas from the Urban Innovations of All Sizes
Cultural grants and awards
Every year, the Urban Culture and Wellbeing Committee awards grants for cultural activities.
Grants and scholarships
The city distributes grants to support events and activities that make Vantaa a better place to live in. Organizations' operating grants and artist grants must be applied for during their specific application periods, target grants can be applied for throughout the year. Various employment subsidies
Vantaa of Innovations
Vantaa is currently the fastest-growing city in Finland. In order to guarantee growth both from the social and ecological perspectives, Vantaa has had to be innovative and to flexibly use its resources together with the residents and all of Vantaa's actors. Vantaa has been chosen as the European
The European Rising Innovative City
City of Vantaa is the European Rising Innovative City.
Recipients of Vantaa's 2021 cultural prizes chosen - to be published on November 10, at Cultural Gala
Vantaa city executive board decided to make the Länsimäki disposition plan available for public inspection. In addition, the city executive board ratified the needs assessment plan for Varia’s Hiekkaharju campus and decided on the recipients of the City of Vantaa’s 2021 cultural prizes.
Vantaa nominated as the European Rising Innovative City
Vantaa is one of eight cities that the European Innovation Council (EIC) has chosen as the European Rising Innovative City semi-finalists.