As part of the Gammelbacka community project, Porvoo Youth Services launches a new form of participation in which a citizens’ assembly will be experimented. The assembly’s task is to make recommendations for the development of Gammelbacka and to highlight residents’ views on the future of the area.
In August 2026, a pilot for bilingual English-Finnish education will be launched at Peipon koulu in Gammelbacka, Porvoo. The pilot will start with a group in the first grade. An info event will be held for interested guardians on 19.11.2025.
The support for learning in pre-primary, basic and general upper secondary education will be renewed throughout the country from 1 August 2025. The aim of the major reform is to support students at an early stage, in their own teaching group and primarily group-specifically.
A private daycare centre with a single group has decided to close following a water damage incident over the weekend.
Porvoo City Cultural Services is seeking residency artists to stay at the Art Factory residency. The residency periods or 1–3 months open for application are granted for the period 19.1.2026–10.1.2027. The residency includes a working space and an apartment. Rent is 400 euros per month.
Integration Services in Porvoo work closely with Porvoo Adult Education Centre and other actors.
Porvoo has long had the status of the foremost Christmas City of Southern Finland. The city has been the official goodwill city of Santa Claus since 2019 and even has its own Christmas elf, Fredrik Flodbåt.
Marjo Rantala started as the director of the City of Porvoo Sports Services in February 2024. She encourages everyday exercise and learning an active lifestyle at one’s own pace.
Apart from the old, fine pine trees, the Edelfeltinranta area looks nothing special to the layman’s eye. Instead, Porvoo’s urban planning manager, Jarkko Lyytinen, sees through a grey spring day to the future, where Edelfeltinranta will be a pleasant and ecological residential area by the sea for 300 new residents.
The vote on participatory budgeting closed before Easter. As a result of the vote, the City of Porvoo will implement 9 ideas during this year. The total cost estimate for implementing the ideas is 47 500 euros.