ESPOO MAGAZINE 3/2018

PICKS
2025
The
United Nations has invited the City of Espoo to become a pioneer of sustainable
development. This entails Espoo undertaking to reach the UN’s goals by 2025.
25 cities have been invited to the Sustainable Development Program. Espoo
was invited to the university cities category, which includes in addition to Espoo
Cambridge in the UK, Heidelberg in Germany, Noida in India and Palo Alto in the
United States. Each city will be appointed to lead at least one of the 17 goals.
Espoo’s operations will focus on learning, education and innovation.
Espoo is the
smartest in the world
THE CITY OF ESPOO has won the international Intelligent Community
Awards 2018. Espoo was the only European city among
the seven finalists. The competition was built around the theme
of utilising data in human-oriented service development.
The three-day final was held in London in early June.
During the days of the final, Espoo Innovation
Garden, a metropolitan development community,
“ESPOO’S BEST gained visibility and new networks for information
RESOURCE ARE sharing and contacts. These are helping Espoo residents
to implement the city strategy i.e. the Espoo
ITS PEOPLE,
BUSINESSES AND Story, solve the challenges associated with a sustainable
future, and create new intelligent services
COMMUNITIES.”
and jobs.
Espoo has already been cited in an international
comparative study as Europe’s most sustainable city.
The city wants to continue along these lines, guaranteeing not
only good services, but also economic, ecologically, socially and
culturally sustainable growth.
“Espoo’s best resource are its people, businesses and communities.
Bearing this in mind, this is clearly a shared victory,” says
Mayor Jukka Mäkelä.
The competition was arranged by the international expert network
of cities and regions, the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF).
KULPS!
Ten years
The KULPS! Culture path was
split into two 1st August 2017.
The Once a Year destinations
can be selected by a group once
during a school year free of
charge. To Your Heart’s Content
destinations can be selected free
of charge once or several times
during a school year without any
restrictions.
KULPS!, a tool for cultural and physical education in Espoo schools,
will soon turn ten years old. KULPS! promotes cooperation between
schools and cultural and sports actors. It consists of three paths: the
culture, sport and library paths.
The goal of KULPS! is that all children have the opportunity to experience
and do art, learn to use libraries, and explore a wide range of
sports and venues. For basic education classes, KULPS! paths are part
of free tuition. Schools can choose the most suitable content from a
range of high-quality offerings.
The KULPS! cultural path is Espoo’s Cultural Education Plan. Finnish
cultural education plans received recognition in the spring, when the
plans currently being implemented by 71 Finnish municipalities were
presented with an award by European Commission and Europa Nostra,
Europe’s leading cultural heritage network.
JOIN US IN THE INTELLIGENT
ESPOO EXPERIMENT
SEVERAL FASCINATING digital experiments will be underway in
Espoo during the autumn, in which anyone can participate. On
Espoo Day, Saturday 25 August, you can use an augmented reality
app to plan the surroundings of the Tapiola Metro Station. At
the end of August, we also launched the Peput penkkiin (bums on
seats) trial – which encourages people to share cars – and a robotic
call service experiment. A few day-care centres will continue
the development of interactive skills begun during the summer, in
the company of the Pikkuli character.
› Follow our news coverage on Twitter @DigiEspoo, and you
won’t miss out! We also post news on our website at
espoo.fi/en-US/City_of_Espoo/Innovative_Espoo.
TEXTILE ART IN TAPIOLA
A TEXTILE ARTWORK will be completed in Tapiola for Espoo Day. Based on rugmaking
techniques, this large textile artwork will be a joint effort by city people,
school groups in Espoo and textile artist Greta Muuri. The work is being done in
cooperation with City Events Espoo.
The Espoo Culture Committee awarded the working grant for professional artists
to Muuri for 2018. She creates experimental textile art, based on used textiles,
to break down boundaries, arouse emotions and promote the values of sustainable
development.
The giant artwork will be created from 21 August and will be exhibited in Tapiola
throughout Espoo Day, 24 to 25 August.
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