Ideas made real
What service, improvement or matter could Porvoo benefit from? Submit your idea to Porvoo municipality and vote for your favourite ideas.
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Participatory budgeting in the ePorvoo service
Submit ideas, vote, browse submitted ideas, or check out the voting results from previous years.
Status update
Voting has started!
The voting period runs from 13 to 26 April. Voting takes place electronically via the ePorvoo service. It is also possible to vote using a paper form at Porvoo libraries and at Porvoo Info (Lundinkatu 8).
Further down the page is a list of the ideas that have advanced to the voting stage. A more detailed description of the ideas can be found on the ePorvoo service.
How to vote electronically:
- First, register as a voter.
- After registering, you will receive a voting link by email.
- You can vote once and select ideas with a total value of up to 50,000 euros. You may vote for as many ideas as the budget allows.
Porvoos participatory budgeting 2026: Young people as the target group
What service or thing would you like to see for the joy and benefit of Porvoo residents? This year, the target group is young people living in Porvoo.
A budget of 50,000 euros has been reserved for the 2026 participatory budgeting projects. The budget can be divided among multiple ideas.
Participatory budgeting means that residents are closely involved in planning and deciding on matters related to the economy and resources and developing city services together.
Stages of participatory budgeting
1. Propose an idea 2–22 February 2026
Ideas will be collected from 2 to 22 February, and all Porvoo residents may submit ideas, but the ideas must be aimed at young people aged 13–18. Young people in particular are encouraged to participate actively in the ideation process.
Young people can submit ideas in three different ways:
- through the electronic system available on the city’s website (ePorvoo)
- in workshops organized by the city’s youth services
- during ideation sessions held in schools.
To proceed to the voting phase, ideas must meet all evaluation criteria and additionally, be aimed at young people aged 13–18.
The name of the person submitting the idea will not be published with the idea. Contact information can be provided so that the evaluation team can request additional information if needed.
The ideation phase of the participatory budgeting process has ended. A total of 147 ideas were submitted. Thank you for your active participation!
2. Evaluation stage 3-27 March 2026
After the ideation phase, experts from different sectors of the city and young people will evaluate the ideas together.
The evaluation team will review all proposed ideas. Ideas will be combined and refined for the final vote. A preliminary cost estimate and possible implementation schedule will be calculated for the ideas. Ideas that do not meet all evaluation criteria will be eliminated at this stage.
At this stage, ideas that did not meet the evaluation criteria were excluded, for example because they were not within the city’s jurisdiction. Due to the large number of similar proposals, several ideas were also merged. In the end, 21 ideas advance to the voting phase.
3. Vote for ideas 13-26 April 2026
The following 21 ideas advanced to the voting phase:
- Swings 12.000€
- The largest possible 3D printer for the moped workshop 15.000€
- Tyre-changing machine for the moped workshop 3.000€
- Dyno bench for the moped workshop 9.000€
- 2,000 euros for each youth center 6.000€
- Car simulator for the Zentra youth center 3040€
- VR room (virtual reality) 25.000€
- Lecture on resilience and the prevention of violence 14.000€
- Sofas for student use at Pääskytien koulu 3.000€
- New sofas for AE-koulu 3.000€
- Outdoor table tennis table in Hornhattula 6.000€
- Skate ramp in Hornhattula 26.000€
- Table tennis tables for lower and upper secondary schools 11.900€
- Sofas for Lyceiparkens skola 3.000€
- Large concert in Porvoo 30.000€
- Band event and live gig for young people 30.000€
- Benches for the field at Huhtisen koulu 7.500€
- Renovation of the Jakari sports field 7.500€
- Football tournament for young people 7.000€
- Football field in Hornhattula 5.000€
- Lockers for Linnankosken lukio 9.800
In the ePorvoo service, you can also explore the ideas that have advanced to the voting phase and browse the ideas that did not proceed to voting. The service also includes voting results from previous years.
How voting works:
Everyone can vote once by choosing ideas to be implemented within a total of 50,000 euros. There is a calculator showing how much it costs to implement selected ideas. You can vote on as many proposals as it is possible to implement with an appropriation of 50,000 euros. The voting link is ordered from the voting page to your own email address.
The ideas that receive the most votes will move to the implementation phase. After the voting ends, the voting results can be viewed on the voting page.
You can vote by submitting a paper form in either Porvoo City Library or in Porvoo-Info, Lundinkatu 8.
4. Implementation stage 1 May – 31 December 2026
The ideas to be implemented will be selected based on the number of votes and the available budget. The ideas will be implemented during 2026.