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What inspires you to walk in Jyväskylä? Answer the resident survey from 22 April to 19 May 2024 and you will be involved in developing Jyväskylä's walking opportunities

The city of Jyväskylä wants to hear from residents about their walking experiences and habits in Jyväskylä. What makes you walk and what prevents you from walking? Where do you feel comfortable as a pedestrian and in which places is it difficult to walk? As a resident, you have the best knowledge of how your neighborhood works in terms of walking and how the conditions should be improved. The survey is carried out to support the planning of Jyväskylä's new walking and cycling promotion program. All residents of Jyväskylä can answer the survey, either by themselves or with assistance.

During 2024, we will plan how walking and cycling can best be

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Kaupungissa kävellään ja pyöräillään. Image Laura Korhonen

Record birdsong with a popular app and help science – one hundred point count stations around the city in Jyväskylä

Kvik kvik, tsirp tsirp and ti-ti-tyy – now you no longer have to guess which bird species it is, as the artificial intelligence of the mobile application recognizes bird species! By making a recording, you can also help science. During the spring, a hundred point counting sites for migratory birds have been set up in the City of Jyväskylä area, where anyone can record birdsong and make their recordings available to researchers. This is the Migratory Bird Spring application developed by the University of Jyväskylä, and this year it will be used to create a point count network together with the City of Helsinki and Metsähallitus National Parks.

In Jyväskylä, point count sites can be found near residential areas 

A blackbird sits on a tree branch. Image Ari Lehtiö

Vapari –Services of voluntary work, city of Jyväskylä

Vapari offers advice and guidance to people seeking volunteering opportunities in Jyväskylä. We work to raise the profile and standards of volunteering in our local area.

What we do:

  • We run our own volunteering activities in collaboration with other organisations
  • We offer advice and guidance to volunteers
  • We develop networks that allow us to work more effectively

Vapari´s volunteering activities

One time support (Kerta-apu)

Appointments and errands

Kaksi naista pöydän ääressä. Image Leila Koskinen

City of Jyväskylä, TGR-WRT, and Toyota Mobility Foundation sign an LOI for future collaboration towards a carbon neutral society

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.

The purpose of the Letter of Intent is for the three parties to identify joint initiatives in the short and medium/long term that will contribute t

Kuvassa vasemmalta oikealle: Shigeru Hayakawa, Deputy Chairman of Board Directors of TMF, Akio Toyoda, Chairman of Board Directors of TMF, Timo Koivisto, Mayor of Jyväskylä, Yuichiro Haruna, CEO of TGR-WRT. Image Jyväskylän kaupunki

Community Centres

The Kortteli Club (Vapaudenkatu 48-50) community centre in the city centre and the Piippuranta Club (Paperitehtaankatu 1) community centre in Kangas are open meeting places for people of all ages.

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Joukko eri-ikäisiä ihmisiä seisoo rivissä lähitalo Piippurannan Klubilla. Image Jiri Halttunen

Art and Culture companions

Culture for everyone!

No one to go with? Do you need a companion for a museum visit or concert?

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Art and Culture Companions
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Kulttuuriluotsit Lutakon puistossa Marja Kolun Aatamin puraisu veistoksen ympärillä

Mindscape of growth

Aim of the project

The basis for the project is the need to increase workshops and possibilities for rehabilitation for young people. The aim is to prevent increasing problems, to provide strong support in transitional phases and to increase alternative waysto study and find a place in the society.

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EU project
Kysymyspurkki Gradian Vivo-valmennuksessa. Image Marja-Sisko Kataikko

Volunteering in Jyväskylä

Volunteering, what it means?

Voluntary activity describes unpaid activity undertaken by choice for the benefit of other people or nature. By volunteering, you can gain new experiences, know-how, and meaningful things to do. (Kansalaisareena)

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Iso ja pieni kävi vastakkain. Image Jiri Halttunen

Social services

The services of social work provided are rehabilitative social work and social security, child protection and the social work with disabled. There are two main offices of Social Services in the city centre of which the other looks after the rehabilitative social work and social security, and the other looks after child protection and agreements of child custody and visiting rights. The social work with disabled has been centralised in the Office of Social work with the disabled.

Healthcare services

In Finland everybody is entitled to basic health care. Municipalities provide services for all agegroups, from children's daycare to the treatment and care of the elderly. In Jyväskylä these services are administered by the Centre for Social and Health Services. Their services cover among other things health care and doctors as well as pre- and post-natal care.

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Terveyspalvelujen ammattilaisia ryhmäkuvassa. Image Olli-Pekka Latvala