City of Helsinki: Strategic Themes and Strategies

The Helsinki Metropolitan Area is a dynamic world-class centre for business and innovation. Its high-quality services, arts and science, creativity and adaptability promote the prosperity of its citizens and bring benefits to all of Finland. The Metropolitan Area is being developed as a unified region close to nature where it is good to live, learn, work and do business.

A. Welfare and Services

1. Client based development of city’s services

• Service strategies for departments

• Improving the status of citizens in getting services

• Common use of services in the Metropolitan Region

2. Increasing the cost efficiency in city’s activities

• Qualitative and areal optimizing the service network and service capacity

• Strengthening the information base of service production efficiency and development of measurement and evaluation methods

• Development of service processes

• Concentration on support services

• Development of the methods of organizing services

3. Prevention of social exclusion

• Direction of resources to excluded or exclusion risky persons and groups

• Prevention of social exclusion

• Departmental and regional cooperation in revention of social exclusion

• Strengthening the employment of exclusion risky persons

• Development of neighbourhoods and supporting the empowerment of citizens to prevent unequal development of neighbourhoods

4. Strengthening the knowledge of city’s personnel

• Taking care of personnel's capabilities

• Increasing the capabilities of management

• Taking care of the need of city's future labour force

B.  Competitiveness

5. Improving the innovativeness of Metropolitan region and strengthening the knowledge of citizens

• Improving the regional innovation environment
  Cooperation in the development of common test-beds in the region

• Regional business marketing 

• Creating and serving knowledgable labour force

• Strengthening social innovations and knowledge clusters

• Strengthening the knowledge and information society skills of citizens of Helsinki

6. Improving the business conditions for enterprises

• Zoning, planning, building and maintenancing of areas by taking the business viewpoint into consideration

• Strengthening and creating the growth clusters

• Planning the common regional economic and business policy

• Improving the supply of labour force

C. Urban Structure and Housing

7. Developing the regional urban structure and increasing the capabilities of centres

• Preparing regional development strategy for urban structure and housing

• Increasing the life force of centres and subcentres

• Developing urban structure with new areas

8. Developing the long term transport system by emphasising public transport

• Implementing and lobbying of traffic network investments

• Strengthening the status of public transport by emphasising rail transport

9. Variety in housing and sufficient housing production

• Housing production and conditions for it

• Implementation of development project of urban housing

• Cooperation of regional development projects in housing
  
  

Further information:
Mr. Marko Karvinen
Chief Policy Advisor
Tel. +358 9 310 36 257
Economic Planning Division

A PP presentation has been made of the Strategy Programme.
The presentation can be opened here. (.ppt)

The City of Helsinki Strategy Programme in brief (.pdf)