Järvenpää - the new UBC member city

Järvenpää is located close to the main railroad track (Helsinki-Tampere) and two of the main motorways. The city is an integral part of Central Uusimaa, but at the same time close to the Helsinki Metropolitan Area.

Järvenpää is a modern city with a young and well-educated population. The city is well known for its culture and education, but also for high-tech metal industry. Cultural industry is on the rise. Järvenpää's vision is to be a viable cultural city. The city pursues the following values in all its operations: taking care of the people, responsibility, economic efficiency and equality. The mission of the Järvenpää city is to enable and ensure the basic well-being of all Järvenpää inhabitants and the functioning of the community in co-operation with the residents, organizations and neighbouring municipalities, and to follow the principles of sustainable development in all operations. Järvenpää is the commercial and administrative centre of Central Uusimaa. The strengths of our business life are the top-of-the-line know-how in metal industry and our growing cultural industry.

Culture is an essential part of the present-day Järvenpää as well. The city hosts various musical events annually: the Järvenpää Sibelius Weeks in the autumn and Chamber music by Lake Tuusula and Puistoblues in the summer. The pedestrian street Janne, which runs from the railway station towards Lake Tuusula, creates a welcoming setting in summer, but as it is heated, it also offers a lot of events in the wintertime. In Vanhankylänniemi there is a cosy park-like recreational area, a travel centre and a beach. Järvenpää interacts actively with its eight twin cities.The twin cities have been chosen based on similarity with Järvenpää (e.g. population number, location near a metropolitan area or a railroad track).Most of the co-operation projects takes place in the fields of culture, sports, youth exchange, personnel exchange and business. Järvenpää also actively participates in many projects having many global partners at local and regional cooperation.

To UBC - Success comes to those who keep on keeping on! Järvenpää is grateful for the approval of the UBC membership and is looking forward to entering into new partnerships in the innovative and important Baltic Sea co-operation.