Target group: Families with children
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Youth Council election will be held in autumn
New members of the Vantaa Youth Council will be elected in the autumn for the two-year term 2024–2025. Young people living in Vantaa who turn 13–18 years during the election year are eligible for the election.
Science in all languages event week 25.8 - 1.9. 2023
Lifelong learning, events and science in many languages. Programmes for all ages. The Aina oppiva Vantaa network organises events all around Vantaa. Events are free of charge unless mentioned otherwise.
Basic education’s curriculum and allocation of courses
Vantaa's curriculum dictates schools’ instruction and learning. It specifies the subjects’ educational goals, content, and grounds for assessment.
Käärijä, who wowed the world with Cha Cha Cha, performs in Vantaa at Louhela Jam!
The City of Vantaa will host a Käärijä gig at Louhela Jam on Sunday, June 4th, 2023. In addition to Käärijä, twenty other great jam bands will perform at the event. The event is free of charge.
Vantaa will once again implement the very popular playground meals
Vantaa will once again implement the very popular playground meals. Warm meals and picnic bags will be distributed free of charge to under-18-year-old Vantaa residents in various places around the city from June 5 to July 7, on weekdays at 11:00–12:00, or for as long as food is available.
Children and young people decided on a budget of 160 000 € in Vantaa – the money will be used to build cable slides and organise outdoor movies
Children and young people decided on a budget of 160000€ in Vantaa - the money will be used to build cable slides and outdoor movies. The winners of the participatory budgeting of children and young people in Vantaa were published on the Influential Day on April 26 at Vantaa City Hall.
Six largest cities: 9,000 new early childhood education professionals with higher education degrees needed by 2030
Six largest cities: 9,000 new early childhood education professionals with higher education degrees needed by 2030. The six largest cities in Finland demand that the new government take action to resolve the staff shortage prevalent in the early childhood education and care sector.
School dog Varjo brings joy and does important work
Wildfay’s Public House, a.k.a. Varjo, has been working as a school dog for a year, visiting Mikkola School about every other week. The dog facilitates communication with adults, motivates the pupils and, at best, calms the class.
Vantaa Culture Kids events to begin in April
Every Vantaa child born in 2023 and after gets the birthday present of being invited to become a Vantaa Culture Kid.