City of Jyväskylä

A guide to innovative waste management has now been published.

The autumn holiday in Jyväskylä early childhood education will be spent on 16-22.10.2023. At that time, early childhood education is organized only according to the needs reported by the families.

Student! Unleash your inner designer and design a craft-themed badge for the Craft Museum of Finland. You

The first guided route of "Maastis," intended for mountain biking and hiking, has been completed and opened for outdoor enthusiasts in Jyväskylä.

The City of Jyväskylä, TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team (TGR-WRT) and Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) towards future collaboration, aiming to achieve a carbon neutral, sustainable and diversified society through community development in harmony with people and nature.

Jyväskylä Adult Education Centre's courses for autumn 2023 are now available on the website. Registration starts on 21 August.

The result of the Mattilanniemi beach swimming water samples taken on Tuesday, 20 June 2023, showed that the microbiological quality of the water now meets the requirements. The swimming ban issued to Mattilanniemi beach on Monday, 19 June 2023, is lifted. Now the beach is in normal use again.

The name of Yaroslavl Square (Jaroslavlin aukio) in Viitaniemi, Jyväskylä, will change to Viitaniemi Square (Viitaniemenaukio). The reason for the name change is that the city of Jyväskylä suspended cooperation with its twin city Yaroslavl in the spring of 2022.

Leiriane Rios, a second-year master’s student at JYU, decided to write a blog post to motivate students in finding a job in Jyväskylä. For that purpose, she interviewed Saeedeh Kholghi, who was working as an intern in the City of Jyväskylä at the time of the interview. Currently, Saeedeh works as a Communication Assistant at the same organisation.

The federal council of the Finnish Athletics Federation (SUL) has granted the 2026 Athletics Championship, the Kaleva Games (Kalevan Kisat), to Jyväskylä. The City of Jyväskylä and the Jyväskylä Field Athletes (JKU) jointly applied for competitions for 2026, which is the 100th anniversary of Harju Stadium. Harju Stadium will be renovated and expanded by the time of the Kaleva Games.

In this year reserving cultivation boxes is also possible.

The completion of the parking garage P-Paraati construction, such as the underground utility engineering transfers, began last August. In January, construction of the actual parking garage started.