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
During 2024, we will plan how walking and cycling can best be
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In Youth Services, you have the opportunity to get to know youth work from many different angles - as a trainee, work experience, apprenticeship and volunteering.
Sixth-graders in basic education in Jyväskylä will register for seventh grade 16.-30.1.2024 in the Wilma system.
Q: Tell me about yourself and your professional background?
This spring, the whole of Finland will collect one million bags of trashes from the environment.
What is it about Central Finland? Why do so many significant innovations, such as the Finnish-speaking school system, have their roots in Central Finland? These and many other matters are pondered in the Museum of Central Finland, less formally known as "KeMu".
HarrastusLaturi (Hobbies for children and youth!) gathers free and low-threshold hobbies for different ages. There are about 250 diverse hobby groups available every week around Jyväskylä. Various sports as well as art and cultural hobbies.
You can browse hobbies at HarrastusLaturi
A low-threshold hobby means that starting a hobby can be easy:
If you are an International Degree Student studying in Jyväskylä, in addition to the guidance and counseling related to everyday living, you can request initial assessment from International House Jyväskylä in English.
16th International Print Triennial
Graphica Creativa 2022 – Untold Artists' Stories
Jyväskylä Art Museum 22 October 2022–29 January 2023
Graphica Creativa Print Triennial brings female Street Art pioneer and contemporary printmaking to Jyväskylä. The exhibition features works by the internationally renowned Swoon (Caledonia Curry, b. 1977) and works by 90 artists from around the world.
Youth services are responsible for regional youth work and youth centres, youth information and counselling, cultural youth work, school youth work, youth participation education, digital youth work, and media activities. The Youth Arts Workshop offers work experience, activities, and guidance for young people who are without work or education. Art and creative methods are part of the Youth Art Workshop's coaching.
The City of Jyväskylä's Youth Services organizes youth work in different residential areas of Jyväskylä, where ten youth centres are located. In the youth centres, young people can meet friends, play games or just hang out. Group meetings, music clubs, theme days, and evening cafés are also a part of youth work in youth centres.
The Youth Art Workshop (Nuorten taidetyöpaja) provides work experience, activities, and guidance for young people who are without work or study.
The following moments will be replayed in memories with warm heart.
No one to go with? Do you need a companion for a museum visit or concert?
Climate change is shaping our environment at great speed and at the same time is defining the future of world in which we live. Our youth could not alter the course of climate change when it was still possible, and this brings up important questions: Do we have the right to feel scared, angry or hope? Who is responsible for the future?
Moritz Müller is a Finnish-German young artist whose work explores independence, complex emotions, and identity through portrait photography, music, and makeup.
Müller began his artistic journey in 2016, starting with make up. He soon expanded to self-portrait photography shortly after. Music on the other hand has always been a part of Müller's life, but it wasn't until he published his first songs in 2019 that he began considering music a part of his artistic career.
Jykylä, Jyskälä, Nykäskylä, Jiikylä, Jypinkylä... Jyväskylä is having many names!
Jyväskylä is a buzzing and thriving cosmopolitan city. With slightly over 142,000 inhabitants, it is a big yet compact city. Known for its universities and student life, it is a popular place to live and a dynamo of new ideas and innovation. With a compact city centre and immediate access to surrounding nature and wildlife, a wealth of study opportunities and rich cultural offering and other free-time services, Jyväskylä has the makings of a great place to live and work.
The Green Loop is a chain of green spaces and lush cultural environments around the city centre of Jyväskylä. On the Green Loop, you can enjoy all the benefits of green. You can exercise, refresh yourself and have a good time.
Green Loop is a new type of central park and outside livingroom. It consists of nearly 200 hectares of green areas and lush cultural environments around Jyväskylä city centre.
The Green Loop can be regarded as a local recreational area for around 20,000 residents. That is around one in every six Jyväskylä residents.
Bold experimentalism and novel breakthroughs propelled the emergence of a generation of young artists. Grand narratives gave way to expressing subjective emotions and experience. Jyväskylä Art Museum’s exhibition takes you on a time travel into the recent past of art from Central Finland. The extensive exhibition features a selection from the most interesting works in Jyväskylä Art Museum’s art collections from 1975–1997.
Students in upper secondary school can also access the City of Jyväskylä’s pupil and student support services. The service is staffed by psychologists and student welfare advisors, who are on hand to offer help and guidance to all students. The services are provided with the student’s consent, and they can also involve family and friends as well as teachers and other relevant professionals. The purpose of the service is to promote the wellbeing of individual students and the wider school community and to help create a safe and positive learning environment for all.
Psychiatric nurses working as part of the pupil and student support services team offer support to young people under the age of 18 and their families with mental health, drug, alcohol, gaming and gambling addiction issues. If you feel that you need help with any of these issues, you can get in touch with the nurses directly. Alternatively, contact can be initiated by a teacher or school nurse, however, staff must discuss this with you or a member of your family first.
Representatives from the Jyväskylä youth council, Nea Auer, Wiivi-Maria Kasanen, Viivi Wahlberg, Katja Laitinen, Viljami Ihalainen and Åsa-Sofia Vi