Espoo
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With more than 275.000 inhabitants, Espoo is the second most inhabited city in Finland. Espoo is located on the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, specifically on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, and has an extension of around 528km2.Contact details
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Makerspaces at the City Libraries
Makerspaces are collaborative work sites where people of different ages and interests help each other by sharing the facilities and tools, as well as knowledge, experience and ideas. [...]
Message of the Mayor of Espoo
Message of the Mayor of Espoo, Mr. Jukka Mäkelä, on occasion of the International Day of the Educating City [...]
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Educating Cities’ Award handed out to the Opinmäki residential community
To mark the International Day of the Educating City, the Educating Cities' Award was handed out to the Opinmäki residential community in a festive event held on Saturday 3rd of December 2016. [...]
Opinmäki Learning Centre
A municipal facility designed to operate as a formal education centre and also as a venue for educative and cultural activities and services for all the citizenry. A meeting place which has been designed and planed with the active participation of the inhabitants. [...]
Espoo, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat and Saha-gu win the Educating Cities’ Award
The winning projects of the 1st edition of the Educating Cities’ Award are the Opinmäki Learning Centre of Espoo, the service-learning as a tool for living together, social cohesion and participation of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat and the regeneration of Gamcheon into a cultural village of Saha-gu. [...]