Tag: Innovation

Safety factors – “Our youth facility is the railway station where young people are”

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Track youth workers move around on trains, in stations and in shopping centres. Their presence creates a sense of security. Watch the video!

This is how the Vantaa50 pastry is made – bake your own!

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Vantaa has its own Vantaa50 pastry to celebrate the anniversary. The Vantaa50 pastry is a blueberry rose that melts in your mouth.  

Vantaa now: an international city of innovation

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Vantaa is a vibrant and growing city, attracting around 1,000 new residents a year. See what Vantaaʼs strategic strengths are.

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Budget in less than a minute? Pekka Timonen, the floor is yours!

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What is Vantaa mayor Pekka Timonen’s proposal for next year's budget like? How to tell it in three seconds? What if the time allotted were at maximum one minute?

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School dog Varjo brings joy and does important work

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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.

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Metropolitan area collected generators for Ukraine

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Warm thanks to all donors of the Generators of Hope collection! Vantaa, Espoo, and Helsinki's joint collection resulted in almost 120 aggregates, generators, heating devices, and other devices to be sent to Ukraine.

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We Vantaa folk are champions and now it's time to celebrate – welcome to Innovation Festival Week!

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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

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The Winners and Finalists of the Innovation Competition

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Innovaatioita vantaalaisilta vantaalaisille.

Victory for courage and dreams - this is how innovation flows in Vantaa!

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Vantaa is the European Rising Innovative City 2021! This is a win for courage, crazy dreams, working together for a common good.

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City for All webinar

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Welcome to Vantaa Innovation Festival week! The City for All webinar will take the audience to Vantaa's social innovations, which promote involvement and wellbeing in the city. There will be three webinars on the subject during the Innovation Festival. The language of the webinars is English, and