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.

Rob­bie is a pas­sion­ate entre­pre­neur who has tak­en his love for the Caribbean to a new lev­el by open­ing a Caribbean sand­wich shop in Oulu, Fin­land. Orig­i­nal­ly from the Nether­lands, Robbie’s jour­ney to this unique ven­ture has been any­thing but con­ven­tion­al.

The first part of the Oulu2026 pro­gramme was pub­lished on Jan­u­ary 15. Dur­ing the Euro­pean Cap­i­tal of Cul­ture year, the num­ber of events in the Oulu2026 area will exceed thou­sands. In ear­ly 2026, the pro­gramme will focus on the theme Brave Hin­ter­land, in spring and sum­mer on Wild City, and the rest of the year on Cool Con­trasts.

Master’s degree stu­dents in Edu­ca­tion and Indus­tri­al Engi­neer­ing and Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Oulu Inno­va­tion Chal­lenge dur­ing the autumn semes­ter. The goal was to devel­op ser­vice con­cepts to address the well-being needs of inter­na­tion­al stu­dents.

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.