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.
The second round of participatory budgeting in Porvoo has progressed to the voting stage. A total of 178 ideas were evaluated and 39 of them have now proceeded to the voting stage.
In the spring of 2023, Visit Porvoo organized a Christmas-themed service design project for local tourism businesses in collaboration with service designer Anu Nylund and Petri Paarnio of Santa Claus Finland. The goal was to enhance international winter and Christmas tourism in the Porvoo area through service design and product development. The project explored opportunities for product development, taking into account each company’s strengths while promoting regional collaboration.