Declaration of income must be made by the end of the starting month of the child’s early childhood education 

When a child starts in municipal early childhood education, the family must submit an income statement no later than the end of the month in which the daycare begins. The income statement is made in the electronic customer services.

The service counselling provides general guidance and advice on the early childhood education and care services and basic education provided by the City of Jyväskylä. 

 Information and guidance over the telephone or by e-mail  

tel. 014 569 0180 

Mon, Tue and Thu 9-12 and Wed 12-15   

Our e-mail addresses are   

varhaiskasvatus.palveluohjaus[at]jyvaskyla.fi  
perusopetus.palveluohjaus[at]jyvaskyla.fi  

For security reasons, please do not include personal identifiers in an email.   

Интернациональный Ювяскюля, Изменения в графике работы 

Jyväskylä Employment Services, address Asemakatu 4

International House Jyväskylä, address Kilpisenkatu 1 D

Visit our office to make an appointment for services Mon - Fri at 9 am - 3 pm.

Exceptions:

• Thu 22.6. office is open 9 am - 2 pm.
• Fri 23.6. office is closed.

International Jyväskylä advises international residents in many matters.

Viitaniemi Square is a suitable new name for the square because it is centrally located in Viitaniemi.

Looking for a job is something you can practice and learn. Job search skills include a range of knowledge and skills. They are things you should know, understand or be able to do if you are looking for a job in Finland.
 
There are 6 areas of job search skills: 1) job search channels, 2) job search tools, 3) informaton about working life, 4) your skills, 5) language skills and 6) an active and positive attitude.

Below we explain what is involved in each of these areas. Click the + sign to see the text. Use the examples to test how well you know the job search issues.

Q: Tell me about yourself and your professional background?

MILEstone - Migrants‘ Integration in Local Economies

MILEstone is one of the Inrereg Europe projects under Social theme. 

Jyväskylä competed for the 2026 Kaleva Games with Oulu and Pori. SUL's federal council decided on awarding competitions to Jyväskylä.

This spring, the whole of Finland will collect one million bags of trashes from the environment.

Are you interested in cultivation box? Cultivation boxes are available for rent in the Korpilahti and Vaajakoski areas. There are 30 boxes available for rent in each location. The cultivation boxes are 120 cm x 80 cm in size and their rental price is 12 euros/box. The soil that comes in the box is included in the rent. The city will deliver the soil to the boxes by 15 May.

Welcome to LystiKylä 7.-9.6.2024

LystiKylä Festival is a children’s festival held at Jyväskylä from June 7^th to June 9^th. The festival features plenty of fun events, shows, movie screenings, workshops, and stuff to do for families and children to enjoy. This is the second year the festival is organized, and this year’s theme is music! Come and join the fun with the whole family at LystiKylä!

In Jyväskylä the importance of sport is also reflected in the number of facilities on offer. The City of Jyväskylä maintains altogether 360 sports venues from multipurpose halls to nature trails.

Lomalokki is now published!

This time Lomalokki lists different kind of activities for schools simmer holiday (3.6.-7.8.2024). Activities are listed mainly in Finnish. In some cases the description is also in English:

Jyväskylä is a well-known city of sport and always on the move. Along with top athletes and the only Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences in Finland, it has the Finnish Institute of High Performance Sport KIHU, so it is natural for the city to play an active part in organizing sport events of note.

Agendas with attachments are online until the minutes are published. Agendas and minutes are in Finnish language. (Informations will be undated in English soon)

The upcoming parliamentary election day is on Sunday, 2 April 2023. On election day, polling stations are open from 9-20. 

Regardless of domicile, every Finnish citizen who has reached the age of 18 not later than on the day of the election is entitled to vote. Therefore, Finnish citizens born on or before 2 April 2005 are entitled to vote.