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Applying for education:
1. Who can apply for education?
Basic entrance requirements for studying Basic Vocational Qualifications:
- Anu Laitila
- Juhani Ruohonen
- Rebekka Pilppula
- Nikke Isomöttönen
- Charlotta Kivistö
- Leena Miettinen
- Arto Valkama
- Annakaisa Niiles
- Antti Kirkkola
- Jere Pensikkala
The City of Turku's forest plan 2019–2029 guides the management and felling of the forests owned by the City of Turku in the coming years. The now completed program replaces the latest forest plan drawn up for the years 2001–2010. The forest plan includes 4,295 hectares. The total area of Turku's forests is 4846 hectares, including Ruissalo. Ruissalo has its own management and use plan, so it has not been included in the forest plan.
Governance
Juhani Ruohonen, Director of museum services
Administration
Susanna Hujala, head of development (interim)
Projects.
Pekka Käär, head of development
Administration, economy and human resources.
Ville-Matti Rautjoki, project manager
Museum of History and the Future.
The KUNTANIELU (Municipal sink) project is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research project operating under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's Catch the Carbon programme.
The main objective of the project is to allow municipalities to increase the net carbon sink of the land use sector and to lay the foundation for municipal-level offsetting that enables municipalities striving towards carbon neutrality.
Explore the sinful history of Turku by exercising
Where was justice administered? Where did hangings take place? Who committed an infanticide? What does ‘breaking on the wheel’ mean and where were these wheels? These questions and many more will be answered on a new route, with content aimed only at people over the age of 16. Sites of Sin and Justice in the 1600s leads you to different places of crime and punishment. The route is a part of the 10th anniversary activities of Turku’s year as European Capital of Culture.
The Mobile Library Tour is a concept organised by the City of Turku's Cultural Spearhead project and the library services. The Mobile Library Tour brings summery cultural activities to the bus stops of the mobile library, thus adding the art and culture offering in the different residential areas of the city.
Everyone can experience and be included in art and culture.
The intermediate space model is a pilot project organised by the city of Turku’s Cultural Spearhead Project to make vacant spaces available for a fixed period and free of charge through an open application process. The model provides venues for artists to work in and creates uses for temporarily vacant spaces in Turku. The artistic activities in these spaces also contribute to creating new and surprising urban culture.
Spaces for work and communal art activities
Let’s reform and develop the city’s structures and services together.
Code of conduct of the Turku Vocational Institute
The purpose of the code of conduct of the Turku Vocational Institute (TAI) is to guarantee each student and employee a safe environment to learn and work. The code of conduct promotes a safe learning environment to give everyone the opportunity to work comfortably in peace, which promotes the achievement of objectives related to learning and education.
The pop-up art programme, organised by the city of Turku’s Cultural spearhead project, is a new model that aims to enrich the city’s arts and culture offering. The programme looks for participatory and short-term art activities to enliven the urban environment and to create unexpected encounters with culture and art in everyday life.
Cargo bikes are electrically assisted bicycles that can carry loads weighing a few tens of kilograms. The bikes can also be used to transport children, as the cargo bikes have seat belts.
The cargo bikes work separately from the fölläri system, but the bikes can be rented from Donkey Republic's app, just like the citybikes. Pricing can be found in the app and on Kaakau oy's website (in Finnish).
The range includes three-wheeled bikes as well as two-wheeled cargo bikes.
For companies
Companies and employers can advance sustainable mobility in workplaces. One easy way to start is to favor remote meetings and possibly favor remote working also. Favoring carpooling helps to increase sustainable mobility in workplaces. Companies and employers can create or update mobility and travelling plan where sustainable mobility is considered. Workplaces can actively encourage employees to use sustainable vehicles and public transport and improve the possibilities to use these vehicles and not the private car.
Electric cars in a nutshell
There are different types of electric cars that are fully electric car, hybrid and plug-in hybrid. All-electric cars only have one electric motor, plug-in hybrids and hybrids both have electric motor and combustion engine. The difference between plug-in hybrids and hybrids is that plug-in hybrids electric battery is rechargeable like fully electric cars and in hybrids the electric battery is charged only during reverse braking and with the power of the internal combustion engine.
Sustainable mobility is part of Turku city’s carbon neutral and climate targets which are meant to be achieved by year 2029. The aim is to increase the amount of sustainable mobility in residents’ journeys and moving habits to 66 percent. The purpose of these aims is to secure clean and vital future also for next generations.
The third element of the City of Turku’s sports grant system reform is the new support for competence and development targeted at sports clubs, which aims to ensure high-quality coaching in all sports clubs and associations in Turku.
Turku has nearly 400 municipal sports facilities. The extensive and ageing network requires maintenance and updates in many respects, and the annual appropriations are not enough to implement everything. The sports facility network has significant update needs when several central sports facilities reach the end of their life cycle. The renovations and changes in the school network reduce the number of gyms and outdoor fields, making it more difficult to implement school sports and the activities of sports clubs.
Decisions on the reform of the City of Turku’s sports grant system and sports facility pricing have been made by the Sports Committee, the City Council and the City Board:
The City of Turku is reforming grants related to sports and the pricing of the use of sports facilities. The reforms will be introduced in 2025. The aim is to promote the well-being of children and young people through physical activities, to support hobbyists of different sports more equally than at present and to control the increase in the costs of hobbies.
From 2025 onwards, Turku is the first in Finland to introduce a sports grant for children and young people: Each year, the City of Turku gives all Turku residents aged 7–19 years a voucher for the fees of regular, guided sports hobby activities organised by sports clubs and associations in Turku!
The sports grant system will be reformed from 2025 onwards.