ONLINE PEER - LEARNING VISIT HOSTED BY VANTAA (FINLAND)
CO- DESIGNING AN AMBITIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL URBAN PLAN ADDRESSING C U LT U R A L ENVIRONMENTS
About our host
The fourth biggest city in Finland, Vantaa (237,231 inhabitants in 2020) is a growing and dynamic city located in the metropolitan area of Helsinki.
Vantaa might be young as a city, but its convenient location has attracted people for centuries. It is full of history from the Stone Age to present days and it is the origin of Finland’s capital, Helsinki.
Vantaa is a lively and growing city that cares about building on existing history and roots. Finland’s busiest travel hub, the Helsinki-Vantaa airport, is located next to some of the best-preserved historical parishes in Southern Finland. Home of many modern companies, Vantaa is full of green areas – parks, forests and fields. This is what Vantaa is – a city full of contrasts.
People like to live in Vantaa because of its diverse housing possibilities, characteristic neighbourhoods and a lively cultural life. No resident in Vantaa needs to walk more than 300 metres to find nature, and other services such as schools or leisure activities are made easy and accessible too.
Aiming to be climate neutral by 2030, Vantaa has always put the environment first. In the future the city will have no emissions and no waste, using natural resources sustainably and will reduce its consumption to a minimum.
The preservation of its historical and cultural environment (including landscapes, archaeological sites, built and intangible heritage) is important to promote sustainable development, improve people’s quality of life and reinforce social and cultural cohesion.
Please find more info on Vantaa here.
Local cultural/cultural heritage priorities Due to its rapid growth, the preservation of Vantaa’s multi-layered cultural environments is strategically important and a current question for the city. Culture, cultural heritage, and history are strongly integrated into strategies. They are seen as something that improves the city image and makes people feel belonging to the city.
Vantaa is engaged in highlighting the historical roots of Vantaa and showing the 9000-year-old history of the city in different ways in the urban environment. Strategically Vantaa is committed to enhancing cultural environments in the Cultural Environment programme (2020), Program of Vantaa’s vitality and attractiveness (2019) and in the Architectural Policy (2015).
Cultural environments in Vantaa are considered as the building material for character and identity of the city. Historical sites and architecture should be taken into account in the current city planning. The city wants to bring up the history, develop specific cultural environments and increase tourism in a sustainable way.
Key cultural indicators and facts
The annual budget of the City of Vantaa is
• Annual budget of the city: for 2021, 1.69 billion euros • Annual budget for Urban Culture Department (Library and Citizen Services, Culture, Sports and the Young): 71 million euros • Annual budget for Culture Services: 7,7 million euros • Annual budget for Vantaa City Museum: 1,5 million euros • Budget for Cultural Environment Programme: 168 000 euros About the online peer-learning visit Main themes (a non-exhaustive list)
• Participatory governance of local cultural heritage • Participants will hear about the Cultural Environment Programme, Vantaa’s cultural environment, and connected stakeholder (please see here for more info). • Developing long term strategies for cultural heritage at city level • Cross-sectoral work for heritage sites and cooperation between departments inside a local administration
Key learning points to be expected from the visit - Methodology to co-design a holistic project - Successes and roadblocks that encountered during the project development - Concepts that connect environmental and cultural heritage issues - Practical advices on how to coordinate decision-makers and experts of various policy and expertise areas, and on how to build the trust of citizens. - And much more!
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About participants
City/region/ Country Name & email Job title stakeholder Plovdiv Bulgaria Gina Kafedzhian Plovdiv 2019 Foundation deputy director and cultural manager Plovdiv Bulgaria Victor Yankov International Relations Kavala Greece Melpomeni Vyzika Scientific advisor - Institute of social movements and tobacco history Grenoble Alpes France Pascal Clouaire Vice-president delegated to Metropole culture and citizen participation Grenoble France Bénédicte Curcuru Senior culture projects manager Alpes Metropole Caen France Cécile Cottenceau Deputy Mayor / International relations and tourism Scotland region UK Chloe Porter Historic Environment Scotland Senior Environmental Assessment and Advice Officer Daugavpils Latvia Diana Soldane Coordinator of ECoC project development team Hauts-de-Seine France Elisabeth Juguet Project manager département Copenhagen Denmark Nina Skyhøj Olsen Project manager
Rijeka Croatia Emina Visnic European Capital of Culture 2020 Head of Programme Bristol UK Hannah Sturman Head of Transformation – Cultural & Creative Industries Nicosia Cyprus Maria Petsa Head of the Cultural Department Sibenik Croatia Martina Horvat Fortress of culture - Expert Associate for International Cooperation and Projects Sibenik Croatia Morana Perisa Fortress of culture - Head of Programmes and Production Procida Italy Matilde Carabellese City councillor (Italian capital of culture 2022) Lappeenranta Finland Noora Gherghel Building conservation officer (museums of Lappeenranta)
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Umbria region Italy Chiara Dall'Aglio Coordinator for Tourism, Promotion and EU projects - Regional Development Agency Dublin Ireland Tania Desloge Collections coordinator Leuven Belgium Veerle Van Schoelant Cultural worker and programmer - 30CC cultural centre Leuven Belgium Stefanie Lambrechts Culture director Sendzimir Poland Ewelina Pekala Coordinator of project 'climate Foundation mitigation in heritage buildings' Espoo Finland Kirsi Ojala Coordinator cultural environment programme Flanders Belgium Vera Ameels Regional government
Experts who will accompany us during the visit
Philippe Philippe is the founder and managing director of KEA. He Kern has 30 years’ experience in the world of creative industries, public relations and legal advice. Philippe has led a wide range of research and strategy programmes at European level, notably for the European Commission and the [email protected] European Parliament on the economic impact of cultural and creative industries. He is advising numerous public and private bodies on the formulation of a European strategy. Nils Nils is founder and head of Urban Expert, registered urban Scheffler planner and trained in environmental and quality management. He worked at both local international levels for public and private stakeholders in the field of integrated, sustainable urban development and participation processes. Since 2007 he has been working as Lead and thematic expert for several URBACT networks. [email protected]
Cultural Heritage in Action representatives – available for all your questions!
Julie Hervé Solène Molard Jérôme Schuman Senior policy advisor Policy and project officer Events and campaign officer Julie.herve@eurocities.eu [email protected] [email protected]
Contacts
Vantaa : Maiju Hautamäki – [email protected] Tel : +35850 302 6720
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Cultural Heritage in Action consortium: Julie Hervé – [email protected] Tel: 0032 2 552 08 50
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