Latest news about projects, sectors, services and Jyväskylä in general.
Jyväskylä has been selected to participate in an OECD study analysing the current state of the circular economy in the region and providing recommendations to accelerate the transition to a circular economy.
Jyväskylä-based Neuwo is the winner of Jyväskylä Business Rally Investor Day arranged together with EBAN, FiBAN, and the Startup Factory.
Tech giant Schaeffler’s Industrial Division has a successful product development team of twenty working in Jyväskylä, Finland.
Are you running a scale-up company and seeking investment? Are you planning to enter new markets? Business Rally Investor Day has four seats left for the start-ups to join the race!
Business Jyväskylä coordinates the situational growth awareness project, which creates modeling of the snapshot of growth companies. A comprehensive and up-to-date picture helps the growth company make the right decisions
The international football conference and the Sport Meets Business –pre-event gathers over 200 stakeholders in sports and football to Jyväskylä. The Sport Meets Business -event that is held by Business Jyväskylä is focusing on the effectiveness of football from a sports business perspective.
Seed Village Accelerator Program – Growth opportunities for your team! Operated by KasvuOpen.
Businesses can now jump start their innovation engines with the University of Jyväskylä and the Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences
The IWWOF network has launched its local chapter in Jyväskylä. It works to promote international interaction on many different levels. The network is open to all those interested.
Schaeffler's Jyväskylä based Solution Center offers for its employees a smooth work-life balance combined with truly global operating environment.
Please share your ideas and visions on how to make the city center a more inviting place for people to visit and for shops, cafes, restaurants, and other consumer services to run their businesses better.
Athletic Club, the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä and Business Jyväskylä are working towards a common ecosystem for developing performance of athletes
To New Zealand textile industry expert Maree Hamilton, working at Spinnova is an opportunity one had to grab.
Chad Salmela has worked for years as an analyst for NBC Sports Olympic in Nordic skiing and biathlon. He also coaches Nordic skiing and running for the College of St. Scholastica and formerly was a member of the U.S. national biathlon team. Until last summer, he, his Finnish wife Mimmu Salmela, and their two children lived in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Then the family decided to move to Jyväskylä.
Cooperation with VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland) creates interesting future opportunities for the HHub ecosystem, especially in the various uses of health data. Both HHub and VTT are keen to produce predictive well-being solutions that utilize data and are societally impactful.
The success of a growth company or its international breakthrough is rarely a coincidence. There are often tenacious years of development work in the background, as well as countless negotiations and sparring between various parties. Secapp, Layette, Fibion and Aiwo are successful startups at growth accelerators Venture Academy Finland and Kasvu Open. They are saying the most valuable assets gained in the programs have been the internationalizing networks.
Jyväskylä City Council has approved the detailed plans for the Hippos project. In addition to the sports facilities, the total project of approximately 154 million euro includes a state-of-the-art skills center and modern research facilities for Finland’s leading research units of sports sciences.
Business Jyväskylä, the business services unit of the City of Jyväskylä, and KONE WORX, the innovations unit of KONE, have engaged in a cooperative relationship since March 2020 to develop new smart services for the urban environment. These services may benefit both city dwellers and businesses active in the city.
A new financier is about to introduce 43 million euro to carry out the project.
Business Jyväskylä and FiBAN to begin collaboration – bringing Smart Wellbeing and high Performance on to the map.
International Venture Academy 2020 is a journey between EBAN members, Sophia Business Angels Network, Business Jyväskylä and Finnish Business Angels Network, who are targeting cross-border investments in innovative scale ups in preventive healthcare and global wellbeing.
Blog of Director of Business Development and Employment at City of Jyväskylä. We’ve handled 300 applications for state subsidies from self-employed entrepreneurs, we’ve quickly set up a new process, and we’ve given advice to countless companies over the phone and online.
The City of Jyväskylä is set to conclude an agreement to begin to purchase its start-up entrepreneurship counselling services from Jyväskylä Educational Consortium Gradia.
Corona crisis has forced many entrepreneurs to cut down or even close their business. Advice on how to get help and how to deal with the financial hardship can be found from the links below.
