City of Jyväskylä

The City of Jyväskylä turns 188 years old on Saturday 22rd of March 2025, with a varied programme of events and festivities! This year the celebrations will be spread over two weeks. Most of the programme will take place the week before the birthday. The celebrations will continue after the birthday, when on Wednesday 26 March, the fifth-graders' own party will take over at the Paviljonki.

What is the first thing that comes to your mind about studying and student life? Perhaps cramming for exams in a dormitory, fast-paced events and overalls full of badges. Studying can be this, or it can be something else entirely. For Anu Pöllänen, a mother of five, studying has meant a break from everyday life, rich experiences and new friends.

Jyväskylä is a lively city for international meetings, conferences and congresses.

The Jyväskylä City Council will be elected this coming spring with the municipal elections. The new City Council will start updating the city strategy during the fall of 2025. To ensure the council has enough input for their work, we have already started the preparations by evaluating our current strategy. We want to invite all our stakeholders to help us – share your thoughts on what should be included in the strategy so that Jyväskylä is a great place to live, study, and work!

You can browse the City of Jyväskylä’s website in your own language using the Google Translator function on the pages.

Starting this spring season, Jyväskylä Sinfonia is offering wheelchair users a new way to enjoy concerts with the introduction of a specially designated VIP area. Located on the 4th floor of Paviljonki, the VIP area features four wheelchair-accessible seats along with seating for accompanying assistants. The space provides a direct view of the Encore Hall stage through glass windows, which can be opened or closed as needed, for example, to adjust sound levels.

This year marks a special milestone for Jyväskylä Sinfonia as the orchestra celebrates its 70th anniversary. The main concert of the anniversary year will take place on Wednesday, July 2nd, at 6 PM in the Encore Hall of Paviljonki. This unique event will be held together with another birthday celebrant, Jyväskylä Festival, which is also turning 70 this summer.

The route of Secto Rally Finland, the Finland Round of WRC, is drawn each year along the winding rural roads of Central Finland. The route team of the event continues to pull out new surprises year after year, and we are excited to present the 2025 edition!

The City of Jyväskylä presented the 2024 Congress and Event Awards on 4 February 2025 at an event held at the Harmooni Restaurant.

Linkki public transport mobile tickets are sold through several sales channels, not all of which are managed by Linkki. It is always worth checking the price of the ticket in advance in the app you are using to buy it.

The corporate income of early childhood education client families is reviewed annually. The client families of municipal early childhood education have been informed of the delivery of entrepreneurial income via the Edlevo message. Private early childhood education client families receive instructions on how to deliver business income from the child's own daycare centre. If the customer family has already approved the highest payment, no income information needs to be submitted.

The City of Jyväskylä's Hhub ecosystem for sport, health promotion and well-being has signed an agreement with the Nordic Sport Tech Alliance, aiming to attract Nordic investment in sport and health companies.