Tag: Kauniainen
Are you still looking for a student apartment for the fall? Here are the criteria for getting an apartment as quickly as possible
When the last study places are confirmed in July, the apartment search will accelerate. If you have not yet submitted your housing application, it is important to do so now. At this point in the summer, however, you have to be prepared for the fact that getting an apartment can wait a few months. The…
The capital region’s greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2022 as a result of district heating production
Emissions increased in all municipalities The Helsinki region’s environmental services (HSY) annually calculates the capital region’s greenhouse gas emissions. In 2022, the region’s greenhouse gas emissions increased by almost 10% compared to the previous year and totaled approximately 4.44 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2 equivalent). Emissions increased in every municipality in the capital…
Get to know the nature of the capital region on 130 free guided tours
These tours appeal to everyone who wants to get to know the nature of the city and its surrounding areas. Guided nature tours start in April with bird watching and end in November with a trip to witness the arctic darkness. In between there are family trips with snack breaks, trips in national parks and…
The average monthly pension in Finland is 1,845 euros for the first time
On the other hand, about 10 percent of pensioners received more than 3,000 euros per month, mostly men. The inequality of pensions reflects the length of the working career, the duration of the employment relationship and the salary level. The gender gap in pension levels is narrowing slowly and has decreased by 2% over the…
Guardians praise the early childhood education and preschool education in the capital region
This is evident from the results of the joint municipal survey. Espoo, Helsinki, Kauniainen and Vantaa organized a survey for the guardians of children in municipal and private early childhood education and pre-school education between October 26 and November 9, 2022. The survey was aimed at all guardians of children in early childhood education or…
The decline in Helsinki apartment prices will continue until the end of 2023, says an economist
In the rest of the capital region, apartment prices continued to rise. Espoo and Kauniainen rose by 1.9 percent to 4,176 euros per square meter and Vantaa by 2.4 percent to 3,212 euros per square meter. In Espoo and Kauniainen, however, apartment prices fell by 1.8 percent in July-August. Juhana BrotherusThe chief economist of the…
Finnish Lapland benefited from internal migration for the first time since the early 1960s
“Lapland is a good example. It recorded migration gains, but many other regions have managed to reduce net migration losses during the coronavirus pandemic. The main explanation is the migration from the Helsinki metropolitan area to the provinces, ”MDI’s leading expert Timo Aro told me YLE on Friday. The largest migration gain increased in Pirkanmaa,…
Schools and kindergartens will close next week as the strike progresses
The week-long strike by municipal workers appears to continue from Tuesday, May 3rd Elina Pylkkänenan official in charge of the controversial conciliation committee said Friday he did not intend to ask the minister for a new postponement. The measure will lead to large-scale closures of schools, kindergartens and other services such as libraries and museums…
Friday’s newspapers: Strike threat, Finnair’s problems and Tappara title
Helsingin sanomat newspaper reports Municipal workers in the metropolitan area will go on strike next week after a conciliation committee set up to unite unions and employers said on Thursday afternoon that the parties were too far apart and could not propose a new agreement. The agreement now seems a long way off, as employers…
Strike on the shutters of schools and kindergartens in 10 Finnish cities next week
According to YLE, the strike covers a total of 81,000 employees in Espoo, Helsinki, Jyväskylä, Kauniainen, Kuopio, Oulu, Rovaniemi, Tampere, Turku and Vantaa. In the Helsinki metropolitan area alone, about 31,000 employees are on strike. The city of Helsinki decided on Wednesday that its Finnish-language schools would be closed due to the strike. Pylkkänen told…
A nationwide strike in the municipal sector next week
The one-week municipal service, school and kindergarten strike will begin on May 3, unless a dispute is resolved. Public sector unions Juko, Jyty and JHL have issued a strike warning for the cities of Helsinki, Espoo, Kauniainen, Vantaa, Oulu, Rovaniemi, Jyväskylä, Tampere, Turku and Kuopio next week. Trade unions seek to put pressure on employers…
The Minister postpones the municipal strike in the Helsinki region
The Minister of Labor has postponed the service, school and kindergarten strike in the municipalities of the Helsinki metropolitan area for two weeks. Tuula Haatainen (SDP). The strike was scheduled to begin on April 19, but the Finnish national labor mediator asked Haatainen to postpone it. As a result, the one-week strike is now scheduled…
The two-day strike by local residents will stop in Tampere and Kuopio
The two-day strikes in Kuopio and Tampere, called by Juko’s negotiating unit representing municipal employees, began at midnight on Tuesday and are due to end on Thursday. Schools and libraries closed, other services with limited capacity In Tampere and Kuopio, libraries and schools from primary to professional level are closed. In addition, doctor’s appointments at…
School closures are expected as municipal strikes spread to several Finnish cities
Public sector employees are organizing a series of strikes to put pressure on employer groups to accept pay rise demands. The unions currently involved in the industrial action represent, among others, nurses, teachers, doctors and staff from schools and early childhood education and other municipal services. Minister of Labor Tuula Haatainen (SDP) has taken a…
A strike by the municipal sector struck four cities
Thousands of municipal workers, including teachers, early childhood educators, psychologists and social workers, went on strike in four Finnish cities on Wednesday as the largest industrial action in the municipal sector for decades. The measure, called by the Public Sector Professional Consultative Organization (Juko), aims to put pressure on employers to resolve contractual disputes that…
The municipal strike closes schools in four cities
The cities of Rovaniemi and Oulu, among others, have announced a possible strike by municipal employees, which would affect the opening hours of schools and kindergartens on Wednesday and Thursday. Collective bargaining between employers ‘representatives and municipal workers’ unions has stalled, and unions are now calling for a strike that threatens to shut down schools…
The teachers’ strike may close the capital’s schools in April
Trade unions representing school staff, including teachers, have issued a strike warning covering some 31,000 workers in the metropolitan area. The unions JUKO and JAU have sent a strike warning to the cities of Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen. Negotiations between trade unions and municipal and county employers (KT) broke down on 28 February. If…
Microsoft is building an energy-efficient, heat-generating data center in Finland
The US software company Microsoft has announced plans to build a new zero-emission data center area in southern Finland, which will also be able to supply district heating to the municipalities of Espoo, Kauniainen and Kirkkonummi. The company said in a statement released on Thursday "unique collaboration" Finland’s largest energy company – with the state-owned…
Insulation regulations related to Covid-19 scrapped in parts of Finland
“The omicron variant causes a significant number of infections even before the onset of symptoms, and due to the delay in access to sample collection, most of the additional infections have already occurred after the test results have been reported to the infectious physicians,” reads. joint press release Published by the City of Helsinki. “In…
Several regions of Finland are ending official quarantine
The hospital districts of Pirkanmaa and Central Finland, as well as the City of Helsinki, have announced that they will abandon official quarantine for coronavirus-positive persons. The HUS areas where the new protocol will be introduced in stages are Espoo, Hyvinkää, Järvenpää, Kauniainen, Kerava, Mäntsälä, Nurmijärvi, Pornainen, Porvoo, Sipoo, Tuusula and Vantaa. The same practice…
Friday’s newspapers: More on Prime Minister’s NATO statement, small town concerns, continued vaccine hesitation
Friday’s newspapers continue to react to the nuances in the foreign and security policy statements of Finland’s leaders, with NATO and Russia still as the main issues. The prime minister spoke to the news agency Reuters on Wednesday Sanna Marin said it is "really unlikely" that Finland would apply for NATO membership at least during…
"How would you feel if you didn’t get a weekly shower?" – The shortage of nurses hit the home care industry
"What I think… situation is unbearable. There are no nurses or deputies. Vacancies remain unfilled," said Jonna Hedström which manages home care services for the city of Kauniainen. He said staff flight was evident before the pandemic, although the industry has now also been able to lose workers to Covid tracking and vaccination missions. The…
Prices of old dwellings rose by 3.6% in October in Finland
The most significant prices rose in Helsinki (6.9%) and Tampere (4.9%). Espoo, Kauniainen, Oulu and Turku also registered more than 4% of migrations from the previous year, according to the information. Eastern Finland also stands out from a longer-term perspective. While the prices of old dwellings for housing companies have risen by almost 15 per…
The Finnish economy will see strong growth in October as real estate prices rise
In July-September, Finland’s GDP grew by 4.2 per cent year-on-year, according to Statistics Finland. GDP grew 0.8 percent from the previous quarter. Foreign trade was particularly strong, with exports growing by 9.4 per cent year-on-year in July to September. Economic growth was also boosted by private consumption, which grew by 1.3 per cent from the…
“The community is so welcome”: meets foreign-born Finns who chose the Swedish route
Instead, those looking for an alternative path to citizenship and integration into Finnish society more generally can study Swedish, Finland’s second official language, with 288,000 registered as their mother tongue, even if many more Finns speak it. For this and many other reasons, some immigrants choose the language of the “Swedish path” and immerse themselves…
Tuesday’s newspapers: Suburban anxiety, bank failures and electricity costs
Helsingin Sanomat carries shaking From the northern Helsinki suburb of Pakila and presented local concerns about plans to increase housing density there. The neighborhood is currently inhabited mostly by detached houses, and the plots are owned by individual households. The City of Helsinki has decided that the plots can now be used in two or…
The Helsinki Metropolitan Area prohibits gatherings, children’s hobbies if social distance is not possible – Helsinki Festival mostly canceled
On Tuesday, the Regional State Administrative Agency of Southern Finland (Avi) decided to tighten the restrictions on public gatherings in Helsinki and its neighboring municipalities in Espoo, Kauniainen and Vantaa from Friday 20 August. Only 25 people are allowed to gather indoors according to the rules and they have to stay two meters apart. In…
Restaurant restrictions tighten through much of Finland
As of Sunday, new restaurant restrictions apply due to the worsening coronavirus situation. In the areas designated as being in the community spread phase, alcohol sales must end at 10 pm, while those in the so-called acceleration phase may serve until midnight. The areas in the community spread phase are Southwest Finland, Pirkanmaa and Kymenlaakso,…
Covid cases in Finland are growing by 56% per week, which creates new restaurant restrictions
According to health authorities, new cases of Covid-19, which are almost entirely due to the Delta virus variant, have increased at an accelerating pace in recent weeks in many parts of Finland. In Finland, 752 new cases of laboratory-confirmed coronavirus were registered in the last day on Thursday, THL said. prime minister Sanna Marin(SDP) government…
The Finnish Metropolitan Area will ease the restrictions after the transition to the acceleration phase
The aim is for the relaxed restrictions to be introduced as soon as Friday. The Regional State Administrative Agency of Southern Finland (AVI) announced on Thursday that it has begun drafting a decision to relax restrictions on public gatherings after the acceleration phase. The decision is due to be announced on Monday and the adjusted…
Helsinki’s exit strategy: Children first
At the press conference held on Thursday, the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Coronavir Coordination Group stated that children are the first to leave the coronavirus restrictions in Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen. Outdoor activities for 20-year-olds and younger can continue next Monday. Sports activities must be carried out in accordance with the health and safety guidelines…
Finland is prompting changes in the introduction of vaccinations
The Finnish authorities are considering changes to the country’s vaccination strategy, in which the areas most affected by the epidemic will be given priority once all risk groups have been vaccinated. According to the current schedule, vaccines will be distributed evenly to the rest of the population once the three primary groups – health care…
The locking rules go to Green, the SPP and the Left MPs to decide
Finland’s threatening closure rules were on Wednesday for three of the five governing party representatives when the marathon talks did not produce a breakthrough. Representatives from the Green Party, the Left Alliance and the Swedish People’s Party were scheduled to meet on Wednesday to decide whether or not stricter blocking rules are in favor. Two…
