There is an abundance of activities that cater to many tastes during the schools' autumn holidays, which take place on 15–19 October in Helsinki.

The Ministry of Education and Culture and the City of Helsinki decided on 8 October to launch a preparation project to establish a new world-class architecture and design museum in Helsinki. The project will run until 28 February 2019.

YIT’s proposal Trigoni has been put forward as the winner of the Pasila Tower Area architecture and implementation competition. The competition assessment panel’s proposal concerning the winner of the competition will be processed later this year by the decision-making bodies of Helsinki and the Finnish government.

The autumn art season of Helsinki is well underway. Many new exhibitions have already been opened, and October will see more openings.

“We’re not talking about more sports but more physical activity,” Mayor Jan Vapaavuori says. “Surveys show that people spend the majority of their waking hours physically immobile, by sitting or lying down. This is a big health risk.

In July 2018, the City of New York became the first city in the world to submit to the United Nations its progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) on city level. As the first European city Helsinki will follow New York City and become the second city in the world in effort to showcase crucial role of cities in achieving UN agenda for people, prosperity and planet.

The English section of the Helsinki-info bulletin’s new edition presents the new Amos Rex art museum, the Job’d project of Migrant Youth Helsinki and a Turkish immigrant’s views about learning Finnish.

City of Helsinki, Nokia and Elisa are looking for a standard model design for the Helsinki 5G base stations in collaboration with Ornamo Art and Design Finland. In the published design contest organizers are seeking unique and easily scalable model for base stations which are to be utilized in Helsinki City environment.