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Welcome to Turku

Welcome to Turku. Turku since 1229. Turku is the oldest city of Finland and one of the oldest cities in the Northern Europe The construction of the Turku Castle began in 1280s The Turku Cathedral was inaugurated in the year 1300

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Welcome to Turku

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  1. Welcome to Turku

  2. Turku since 1229 • Turku is the oldest city of Finland and one of the oldestcities in the Northern Europe • The construction of the Turku Castlebegan in 1280s • The Turku Cathedralwasinaugurated in the year 1300 • The firstuniversity in Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku, wasestablished 1640

  3. Population • Population in the Turku region is over310.000 • The officialpopulation of the city on 31 December 2013 was180.072 • 5.3 % of the citizensspeakSwedish as theirmothertongue • Institutionsoperating in Swedish: • The Swedishtheatre (the oldestone in Finland) • The newspaper Åbo Underrettelser (the oldestone in Finland) • The University Åbo Academi • Sectionof speakers of languagesotherthanFinnishorSwedish: 7 %

  4. Out to the World from Turku

  5. Employment and Livelihoods • The sixth largest city in Finland. • Turku is the economic centre of the subregion. • The harbours of Turku and Naantali form the numberoneharbourcomplex of parcelledgoods in Finland. • The Turku Airportcanbereachedform the city centre in 10 minutes. • Connectionswithouttrafficjams • The Turku regionhas20.000 businesses, 130.000 workpostsand 47.000 students.

  6. A European City of Culture

  7. In 2011 Turku was the European Capital of Culture together with Tallinn • A City of Music • Ruisrock, the 2nd oldestfestival in Europe • Turku Music Festival • Turku PhilharmonicOrchestra • A City of Literature • Authors, poets and comicartists • New, award-winning Main Library • A City of Theatre • Turku City Theatre • Åbo Svenska Teater (the oldesttheatre in Finland) • Twodancetheatres • A City of Sports • Ice hockey, football, athletics (Turku is the home city of Paavo Nurmi) • The legacy of the year as the Capital of Culture • Lively restaurant life (pop-uprestaurants), circus, art in the river, eventvenueLogomo • A City of Travel • Turku Cathedral, Turku Castle, Aura River, medievalevents, ships, archipelago

  8. City of Higher Education Over 35.000 higher education students Turku University is a high class research university, world ranking 211 At present Turku University includes the Turku School of Economics and Åbo Akademi is the only exclusively Swedish language University in Finland. It is also one of the most international universities in Finland. Turku University of Applied Sciences is the largest polytechnic institution in Finland.

  9. International Turku • The city of Turku co-operatesactively with othercities in different city networks, in Finland as well as internationally. The keyobjectives of city co-operationare: • mutualsupervision of interests in the development of European city policy • co-operation on differentthemes • comparison of goodpractices and operationmodels, and exchange of experiences • The mostsignificant international networks for Turku are: • Union of the BalticCities (UBC), Eurocities, New HanseaticLeague, BalticRegionHealthyCities Association, Network of the EuropeanCapitals of Culture, Kuutoskaupungit (the sixbiggestcities of Finland), Louraco-operation (centralcities of the southwesterncoast of Finland) and twincities. • Turku hasbureaus in St Petersburg and Brusselstogether with the RegionalCouncil of Southwest Finland

  10. Research and Development

  11. BlueGrowth – New Growthform the Sea • BlueGrowth is a wide and comprehensivewhole of marinefunctions, whichcreates a breedingground for business and technologicalsolutions. • New innovations for the fieldarebeingsoughtfrom the sphere of marineenvironmental and energytechnologies, BlueCleantech. An example of Turku BlueCleantech know-how is M/S Viking Grace, finished in 2013 • moderndesign, futureconcepts, highlevelservices and consistentconsideration of the environment • Located in Turku is alsoMeridiem, the numberonenetworkprovidingservices for maritimeindustry. Itinvolves Aalto University, University of Turku, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Novia University of Applied Sciences and Åbo Akademi University.

  12. BioHealth – Targeting Health • Employsapproximately2.‹500 people in the Turku region. • Upto 1.000 studentsfrom Turku highereducationinstitutionsgraduateyearly in the BioHealthsector. • Morethan1.000 international researchers in over 100 researchgroups. • Nearly3.000 posts in over 100 businesses, and the turnover is altogetherapproximately 800 millioneuros. • Operating in the Turku regionare for example: Bayer, Orion Pharma, Perkin Elmer Wallac, Biotie Therapies, Hytest, Lundbeck, Biovian, Abacus, ArcticDiagnostics, Raisio, DHR Innotrac, and PCAS Finland.

  13. Creative Know-How as a SuccessFactor • Creative industries in the Turku regionemployapproximately8.000 people in 2.500 businesses. The turnover is in totalapproximately 1.3 billionEuros • ICT employsapproximately3.800 people in the Turku region. The diverse ICT expertise of the Turku region is utilisede.g. in social affairs and healthsectors and in maritime and metalindustries. • About15 businesseswork in the gameindustrysector in the Turku region. • Logomois one of Finland'smostprominentvenuehouses: in 2013 over 700 eventswereheld in Logomo, with 260.000 participants. • Turku functions as a set for manyFinnish and international AV productions and films.

  14. Fun on the Shore

  15. Turku HasThat 'Something' • The classic destinations from Turku Castle to Turku Cathedral are the city's most famous attractions. • From the point of view of tourism, one of the region's most important destinations – apart from Turku and the archipelago – is Naantali. • Due to its location Turku is a centre of maritime events. The big sailing vessels event Tall Ships Races will be organized again in 2017 in Turku. Numerous events are organized annually in Turku, such as the Turku Music Festical, Ruisrock, Aura Fest, Turku Modern and DBTL. • Turku is one of Finland's top conference cities. There were 68 international conferences in the city in 2013 with 6922 delegates. • Region's tourism is promoted by Turku Touring. The region includes 28 municipalities and cities and over 300.000 citizens. • In addition to Finland, The Turku region is marketed mainly to Scandinavia, Russia and the Baltic countries.

  16. Welcome to Turku

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