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If you’re an emigrant here in Tampere coming from South Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa, South America, Canada, USA, well any place except Switzerland and Scandinavia (with all respect), I’m sure you are sensitive to the uniformity of the urban space. Compared to other small - medium - biiig cities, Tampere is neat, very, and clean, very.
So, what a tremendous joy to discover something DIFFERENT, finally.
And here you are with Pyynikin aikamatkat, a wasteland near by the mini-golf. It (…)

Solar Fire Concentration is an engineering company created in Tampere in 2012, doing solar thermal development through humanitarian projects with GoSol.solar.
After years of development, 3 great events happened since the beginning of 2020 and it’s worth sharing here as these last 6 months have been very challenging for SME’s.
1) In Switzerland, Eerik Wissenz and Urs Riggenbach were invited to a contest by Heuberge Resort last January. Aware that the global warming has already a heavy (…)

This article was also published on Oxygen 2050’s site (association of impact and sustainable entrepreneurs based in Helsinki).
This text was inspired by the Responsible Business Research Seminar organized by Tampere University and the Responsible Management research group on March 12th. The workshop was about "Ethics and values in Business", with invited speakers: Harviainen, J. T. "Core ethics of game monetization", Kihn, L. "The role of values in management control systems: Connecting (…)

Isn’t great?!
"CEC Tampere is open to everyone interested in the transition to a circular economy. We’ll be the diverse community and platform to citizens, entrepreneurs, established companies, startups, students, academics and all others to discuss circular economy and help in solving challenges. Currently we’re planning the first events and getting organized.
We believe that collaboration is the key to circular economy and Tampere has a very unique opportunity for that. Therefore, we (…)

Beekeeping is both fascinating and challenging: working with bees and producing honey require diverse knowledge and skills. Welcome to learn, how beekeeping can be started, how one can succeed in it and in which ways it is possible to fail.
Teachers Pieta and Immo Hyvärinen are small-scale beekeepers, and Pieta has also studied beekeeping in their PhD research. The event is happening in Finnish & English.
The Kurjen Ecovillage Association organizes bee information in Kurki Ecovillage (…)

Thanks a lot Marcus Grunewald for your great article introducing great family businesses and impact entrepreneurs of Finland!!
As the Corona crisis demonstrated, international supply chains are fragile. Therefore, it makes sense to nourish the local businesses and the people behind them - even though this might mean paying a higher price for the products and services compared to imports from the Far East. Because in the long run sustainability also means that your neighbour has a place to (…)

I’m SO enthusiastic about this company who can create a true revolution in fashion by recycling fiber infinitely. That’s the claim and I think it’s one of the most exciting in the region in my opinion.
If you remember, last winter, on Independence Day, the Interior Minister Maria Ohisalo enters the Presidential Palace annual receptio wearing a gorgeous evening dress made from IFC’s material and designed by Anne-Mari Pahkala for Infinited Fiber.
I always wanted to understand more how they (…)

The Sustainability and Impact Club is happy to share the outcomes of the sustainable challenges taken by the participants. We hope you’ll enjoy that as much as we enjoyed working on it :)
From key tips to make the student’s experience more sustainable with the Eko Tuni Handbook to a communication campaign about Diversity for future so we can have more internationals here, from focusing on making food habits more sustainable to creating an artistic Duologue, from explaining you more about (…)

What do we need to grow food at home? How can we grow food in our local urban spaces?
Join the monthly meeting of the Changemakers Tampere with an exciting theme: Regenerate - A Start-Up panel on growing food at home.
The speakers are Vivian Leung, heading Food Techies: a Food StartUp Innovation Hub, and Dora Tkalec, Soil health advocate, Permaculture practices specialist and Local food systems developer.
This nice event is happening today after Tampiiri’s organic seedlings picking, (…)

A message from Robert Stewart Jr: "I am happy to once again invite you to our next and last Sustainability Open Space session of the semester, May 18th, starting at 3 pm.
With sustainability entering the mainstream, we all begin to wonder, how can we transition to a sustainable lifestyle? How can we make decisions that will create a better future for the next generations?
In this session, we will focus on the topic of making a sustainable lifestyle. Our friends from the Sustainability (…)