Employment and business

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!

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

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.

The City of Jyväskylä has achieved the second place in overall impression among cities with over 100,000 inhabitants in the 2024 Kuntien imago survey conducted by Taloustutkimus. The study evaluates the performance of municipalities as perceived by companies and business decision-makers. Jyväskylä's most notable improvements were in the categories of business-friendliness and cooperation between the city and companies. Additionally, the city made significant progress in promoting international expertise and labor immigration compared to the previous year. Overall, Jyväskylä's business image ranks as above average. In the study, Jyväskylä achieved a general score of 7.61, exceeding the national average of 7.44.

The TE Offices will be closed at the end of the year. All job seekers from Jyväskylä and Muurame will use their own municipality’s employment services next year.

What is it like to look for a job in Finland as an immigrant? It is full of anticipation, learning and the joy of success. In this employment story, you get to know the career path of an immigrant in Finland.

The City of Jyväskylä and Fortum have signed a letter of intent to build a data centre complex on land owned by the city in the Seppälänkangas area of Jyväskylä. Fortum will develop and market the area to potential data centre operators who will make the actual investments.

The Finnish round of the World Rally Championship, or Secto Rally Finland, returned this year to its full four-day glory after the difficult coronavirus period. A total of 230,000 spectators were recorded in Jyväskylä and Central Finland, the visitor record was broken in Harju, and the Finnish World Cup Rally left a jackpot of income behind for the Jyväskylä region and Central Finland.