The City of Jyväskylä is one of the first cities in Finland to provide accurate measurements of CO2 emitted by road paving. The paving project at Parviaisentie in Säynätsalo served as the first pilot...

Now in its 14th year, Jyväskylä’s City of Light festival, which took place on 26–28 September, enjoyed a record-breaking run, attracting more than 130,000 visitors. Visitor numbers were calculated...

In May 2019 the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities, the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE and the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra challenged every municipality in Finland to compete...

GAPin (AVOin) the open urban environment policy for the City of Jyväskylä, has now been completed. The policy combines green spaces (G) architecture (A) and with participation (P) and outlines...

Business Jyväskylä Soft Landing Services helped 11 companies expand their business to Jyväskylä during 2018. This effort resulted in 80 new jobs and brought new investments worth EUR 4.1 million to...

Two biogas-powered pool cars can be rented in the Kangas area of Jyväskylä. As far as is known, these are Finland’s first biogas-powered pool cars.

The next parliamentary elections in Finland are due to take place in the spring, and frantic lobbying efforts are already underway to secure support for a wide variety of infrastructure projects....

A survey by Taloustutkimus Oy shows that Jyväskylä’s overall image has improved since the previous year to beat all its peer cities in Finland.