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Our office is closed from 1 to 26 July 2024
We will be back at work on Monday, July 29th. Wishing you all a sunny summer!
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Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Land Use Plan – a new way of planning
The Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Land Use Plan 2050 covers all important land use themes and it has a time span until the year of 2050.
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24.6.2024
Helsinki-Uusimaa and State of Brandenburg expand cooperation
Our Regional Mayor, Ms Tuija Telén and Ms Katrin Lange, Minister of Finance and for Europe of the State of Brandenburg, have signed an agreement on cooperation in Potsdam.
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19.6.2024
EU competitive regions cooperating for doubled semiconductor production
The Helsinki-Uusimaa Region has joined the European Semiconductor Regions Alliance (ESRA), an alliance of European regions with proven semiconductor industries to promote the importance of the semiconductor and microelectronics industry.
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11.6.2024
Info Events for creative industry by Helsinki-Uusimaa Cultural Market
We wish all regional actors and artists in the creative industry welcome to the presentations of the project Helsinki-Uusimaa Cultural Market. The project carried out by the Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council is aiming to improve the equal availability of culture, as well as the employment situation in the industry.
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24.5.2024
Helsinki-Uusimaa tops the EU Social Progress Index
Helsinki-Uusimaa Region tops the rankings as the most prosperous European region in the latest edition of the European Social Progress Index, comparing wellbeing and social progress across European regions.
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21.5.2024
Uusimaa Day celebrated all over our Region today, Yle Areena streaming Spring Celebration this evening
On 21 May we’ll celebrate the first Uusimaa Day ever. Tens of events will be held all around our Region. Yle Areena is streaming our Spring Celebration at 7 p.m. from Lohja.
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17.5.2024
Tuija Telén: Finland more strongly into continental Europe with Tallinn Tunnel
With a location in the northern periphery of the European Union, Finland needs more well-functioning routes both to the south and to the west. A planned tunnel from Helsinki to Tallinn has by now earned its position as a truly considerable solution for the future, Regional Mayor Tuija Telén writes.
Helsinki-Uusimaa Region in Figures
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26
municipalities
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1.8
million inhabitants
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58%
of those speaking another language in Finland live in Helsinki-Uusimaa
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39%
of the Finnish GDP
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50%
of R&D expenses in Finland
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62%
of the land are is forest