The City of Oulu and French com­pa­ny Ver­so Ener­gy have signed a co-oper­a­tion agree­ment aim­ing to build a hydro­gen pro­cess­ing plant in Oulu. Ver­so Ener­gy intends to con­struct a plant with a year­ly pro­duc­tion capac­i­ty of 80 000 tonnes of e‑SAF. The esti­mat­ed val­ue of the project is €1.4 bil­lion, and it is expect­ed to cre­ate 250 jobs.

Dri­ven by the desire for a more peace­ful life, supe­ri­or edu­ca­tion­al oppor­tu­ni­ties for their four chil­dren, and the allure of Finland’s renowned hap­pi­ness index, Jose Vargh­ese and his wife embarked on a jour­ney to forge a new life.

The City of Oulu is part of the “Wel­come Home” cam­paign, a joint ini­tia­tive by Fin­land’s six largest cities to encour­age immi­grants to use the cities’ ser­vices that sup­port inte­gra­tion. The ser­vices help with adapt­ing to Finnish soci­ety, lan­guage learn­ing, and find­ing a job.

The first call for vol­un­teers is open through­out Feb­ru­ary, and any­one over the age of 15 who wants to be part of the Euro­pean Cap­i­tal of Cul­ture year is wel­come to join. The tasks include, for exam­ple, tick­et sales, event orga­ni­za­tion, com­mu­ni­ca­tions and mar­ket­ing, and cus­tomer ser­vice.

The cities of Oulu, Fin­land, and Sendai, Japan, recent­ly renewed their coop­er­a­tion agree­ment for anoth­er five years. The part­ner­ship will lever­age the strengths of both cities to explore new oppor­tu­ni­ties in ICT, health­care, cir­cu­lar econ­o­my, and print­ed elec­tron­ics.

Timegate is a glob­al deep tech com­pa­ny, pro­vid­ing real-time process mon­i­tor­ing solu­tions for bio­pro­cess­ing indus­tries. One mem­ber of the mul­ti­cul­tur­al team is Vineeth. For Vineeth the Finnish work­life appears to have low hier­ar­chy, which sup­ports flu­en­cy in work­ing process­es.