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The Jyväskylä City Library and the Finnish Schools on the Move initiative have together created a themed collection on the 2nd floor of the Main Li
The Jyväskylä Business Rally – EBAN Esports and Gaming Investor Day event is designed to bring together investors and scaleups from around the worl
Voting in advance
The advance voting is taken place between 15.-21. May 2019.
National Cycling Week is organized in Jyväskylä for the 17th time.
The basic art education curriculum, offered to all children and young people under the age of 18, covers architecture, fine art, music, drama and w
Two biogas-powered pool cars will be available to everyone in the Kangas area of Jyväskylä
The pool cars can be rented through Oma
The exhibition by an internationally known designer, Ilona Rista, showcases new kind of Finnish wood culture. The wood artist’s playful approach to digital materials has produced a fun, yet serious collection of material and immaterial works that combine wood art with technology. The exhibition will be held at the Craft Museum of Finland’s Lobby Gallery 12 September–5 December 2020.
Jyväskylä Art Museum 19th September 2020 – 14 March 2021
Journey to the Heartlands 2020 presents new contemporary art, performances, lectures and workshops. The theme of the exhibition curated by Rickard Borgström is Notions of Space – From Belonging to Displacement. The exhibition features 29 Finnish and international artists/artist duos and extends to four exhibition venues in Central Finland.
Please visit matkallamaankeskipisteeseen.fi/en/ for more information on the artists and exhibitions.
On this page, we’ve assembled measures and procedures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus which the Jyväskylä municipal early childhood education services have adopted so far. This page will be updated as the situation develops.
Warmly welcome to our concerts in autumn 2020! Please acquaint yourself with our safety instructions before arriving at concerts.
Stay at home if ill
Please stay at home if you have any symptoms of flu. If you feel yourself sick, stay at home and contact via phone the city theatre ticket office (tel. 014 266 0110) to change or return your ticket. You can change or return your concert ticket without refund exceptionally even on the concert day.
Since the beginning of 2013, the Municipality of Laukaa has been responsible for the rural services administration of the City of Jyväskylä through the so-called host municipality model.
The cooperation area consist of the following municipalities:
- Hankasalmi
- Joutsa
- Jyväskylä
- Laukaa
- Luhanka
- Muurame
- Toivakka
- Uurainen
A service voucher is one way of organizing the municipality's statutory social and health care services. Getting a service voucher requires an assessment of the need for care or services, as well as a service decision or referral. After receiving the service voucher decision, the customer selects the service provider, and agrees to purchase the service with a service producer of their choice approved by the city. The use of service vouchers is regulated by the Act on Social and Health Care Service Vouchers (569/2009).
Depending on the value of the procurement, invitations to tender published by the City of Jyväskylä can be found on various electronic channels:
- HILMA Public procurement notification channel (procurements exceeding the national threshold provided by the Public Procurement Act)
- Small Purchasing Service (Small Purchases)
- The Supplier Portal
See the City of Jyväskylä's upcoming calls for tender (in Finnish)
See the ongoing and upcoming calls for tender of the Hansel Oy
In its procurements, the City of Jyväskylä complies with public procurement legislation and the city's own guidelines, such as the administrative regulations and the procurement guidelines.
The City of Jyväskylä's tendering services acts as a consulting expert organisation for the city service sectors, and public utility companies. In addition, it is responsible for the centralised procurement of goods and services by the City of Jyväskylä, i.e. the so-called joint procurement.
The City of Jyväskylä uses business service vouchers to promote the growth and development of companies. The business service voucher encourages growth-oriented companies to develop their business more systematically and on a larger scale, and to utilize various expert services.
The business service vouchers are intended for SMEs operating in the city area (domicile and / or office located in Jyväskylä).
The City of Jyväskylä annually sells or leases approximately 80 plots for single-family houses. New plots are usually handed out in the spring and autumn. Otherwise, available plots may be applied for on a monthly basis. As a rule, a separate application form is used for applying for city lots. The city also sells lots on the basis of competitive tendering.
The City of Jyväskylä offers companies an abundant but varying range of corporate plots next to the best traffic connections.
Land leasing, land use permits
Market trade is carried out in several locations in the City. Saleable products include vegetables, berries, fish, pastries and handicrafts.
The Market Square sales spots, the second-hand sales spots on Sepänaukio Square and Christmas tree sales spots are subject to a price specified annually by the City, but the spots at other sales locations do not involve a fee.
For more information, please contact:
Hannikainen Service Point
Tel. +358 14 266 0108
palvelupistehannikainen[at]jkl.fi
Address: Hannikaisenkatu 17, 1st floor
Ilmoituksen, mainoksen tai opasteen sijoittamiselle katu- tai muulle yleiselle alueelle tulee saada lupa maanomistajalta eli kaupungilta. Jyväskylän kaupungilla lupa haetaan yleisten alueiden ylläpidosta vastaavalta Kaupunkirakenteen toimialalta. Yksityishenkilöiden asettamille ja välittömästi tapahtuman jälkeen poistamille hää- tai juhlaopasteille ei kuitenkaan edellytetä lupaa.
Kaupungin yleisten alueiden käyttö edellyttää kaupungin lupaa. Yleisten alueiden käytöstä peritään taksan mukaista korvausta.
Sijoituspaikkaluvat
Sijoitettaessa rakenteita tai laitteita kaupungin omistamalle maalle, tulee toimenpiteelle saada kaupungin sijoituspaikkalupa. Lisätietoja luvan hakemisesta ja myöntämisestä löytyy Sijoituspaikkalupa-sivulta.
The most common permits that are applied for electronically can be found at the links below:
Cafés and outdoor alcohol service terraces
Building permits
Permission for placement
Street works permits
Environmental permits and supervision
Environmental health
Event permits
Alcohol permits
The city of Jyväskylä offers companies a diverse selection of plots with good transport connections.
There is a wide choice of business premises available in Jyväskylä for different kinds of needs:
What does the past of handicrafts look like in the eyes of modern designers, and what kind of inspiration can be drawn from the collection at the museum? The designers invited to the In Good Hands exhibition have had the chance to explore the extensive archives, founded in 1879, of the Friends of Finnish Handicraft at the Design Museum. After this they have created their works in dialogue with the archive materials.
The Fifty-sixty crowdfunding experiment is a new participatory funding model that the City of Jyväskylä offers through the Mesenaatti.me website for the use of the residents. The people in Jyväskylä can come up with ideas for projects that they want to start with crowdfunding. The projects can get the City of Jyväskylä as one of their financiers.
Jyväskylä Art Museum
19.9.2020-14.3.2021 Journey to the Heartlands
Galleria Ratamo
20.8.–13.9. Aleksi Rytkönen: Arki jossain muualla, Iiro Immonen: Route 6540
June 18th – September 6th, 2020 in the Gallery
Climate change is shaping our environment at great speed and at the same time is defining the future of world in which we live. Our youth could not alter the course of climate change when it was still possible, and this brings up important questions: Do we have the right to feel scared, angry or hope? Who is responsible for the future? What can we demand from others as well as from ourselves? What kind of future will our generation have?
