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Helsinki Energy Challenge helps create the future of heating
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Helsinki Energy Challenge helps create the future of heating

With the Helsinki Energy Challenge, the Finnish capital recognises innovations that offer new solutions for the city’s heating system, which accounts for more than half of Helsinki’s total emissions.

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Helsinki Freedom video series tells stories about life in the Finnish capital
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Helsinki Freedom video series tells stories about life in the Finnish capital

A minidocumentary video series celebrates the freedoms that people living in the capital experience every day. A group of hand-picked creators were given the freedom to demonstrate what being free means to them.

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Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin featured on TIME100 Next list
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Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin featured on TIME100 Next list

The American magazine TIME includes Sanna Marin in its annually published list of leaders who are emerging to shape the future.

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Celebrating a different kind of New Year’s Eve in the Finnish capital
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Celebrating a different kind of New Year’s Eve in the Finnish capital

Helsinki rings in the New Year remotely with a laser show, children’s activities and an orchestra playing EDM.

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Helsinki proudly displays the colours of the rainbow
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Life & societyEquality

Helsinki proudly displays the colours of the rainbow

Helsinki Pride Week 2020 happens from September 7 to 13 on the streets and online.

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Nordic and international photographers exhibitions on the streets of Helsinki
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Nordic and international photographers exhibitions on the streets of Helsinki

The Helsinki Photo Festival, from July 7 to September 30, 2020, brings the artistic medium of photography back onto the streets.

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Two Finnish universities place near the top of the Young University Rankings
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Two Finnish universities place near the top of the Young University Rankings

The Times Higher Education Young University Rankings list the world’s best universities that are 50 years old or younger.

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Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin grants rare interview to Vogue
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Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin grants rare interview to Vogue

The May 2020 issue of the British edition of Vogue contains an interview with Sanna Marin, Finland’s prime minister. The magazine met her in Helsinki before the coronavirus landed in the Nordic countries. Its US edition also carries an article featuring a conversation with Marin.

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