Partnership of the City of Tampere and Tampere Universities Community

We want to evolve to become the number one city in student friendliness in Finland. With our partnership, we aim to enhance our student services, the fluidity of our students’ day-to-day lives, and their integration into local businesses. 

We discuss monthly with student representatives about current topics and hear student organizations in decision-making regarding students. We are also supporting the City’s unique student culture and the fluent transition from secondary school to higher education. 

We want to advance the possibilities for students to participate in improving the city during their studies. The development of our growing city offers many interesting themes that we want to offer to students as job, research, and internship possibilities. 

With this partnership, our goal is to enable the growth of economic vitality in our area. We support innovations and the creation of new businesses in Pirkanmaa with the help of business, innovation, and startup ecosystems. Our goal is to support the employment of students in Tampere and help them integrate into economic life to get the best and most talented experts locally and internationally to work for Tampere’s corporations.

We are closely cooperating with Finland's Ministry of economic affairs and employment in implementing every section of the Ecosystem Agreement. We are actively working together with Business Tampere and advancing possibilities to apply for external funding for projects and innovative work.

The City of Tampere aims to be an active research subject and employer for researchers of the scientific community. We base our decision-making on researched knowledge and want to offer the best opportunities for research cooperation. The City aims to be a living lab that offers a base for all kinds of research.

The City supports scientific research as established in the city strategy. We work together with the staff and researchers of the universities to enable research, development, innovation, and educational cooperation in a wider manner.

Our goal is to make all services provided for international talents fluent and enhance the possibilities for networking in Tampere. We recognize international talents and students as their own focus group and want to ensure that all our services cater to international audiences for the City to be attractive on an international level.

We cooperate with International House Tampere to attract international students and talents. We aim to more efficiently consider the international citizens of Tampere in all our work. Other central activities of ours are the Tampere Ambassador program and Study and Stay cooperation.