Jyväskylän Kesä 2025 was named Public Event of the Year

The City of Jyväskylä presented its 2025 conference and event awards on January 28 at a ceremony held at Sataman Viilu. The Public Event Award went to Jyväskylän Kesä, which we are truly honored to receive.

”Jyväskylän Kesä is the oldest cultural festival in the Nordic countries and a trailblazer in the Finnish festival scene. ”In its 70th anniversary year, it combined tradition with innovation, reached a diverse range of audiences, and brought performances to the city that are otherwise rare,” says the marketing manager for events at the City of Jyväskylä Jaana Ruponen.

”Warm thanks to the City of Jyväskylä for this recognition. We share the joy and pride of the award with all the creators, performers, audiences, and partners of the 70th-anniversary festival,” commented the festival director on receiving the award. Kyösti Ylikulju

Two conference awards were given out this year.

The 6th Oikos Finland Conference, an ecological research conference organized by the Department of Biological and Environmental Science at the University of Jyväskylä, was the largest conference held in the city in 2025 with its 417 participants.

The 23rd International Plone Conference, organized by the digital services of the University of Jyväskylä, brought together 180 people from around the world. The conference focused on open-source application development and Python, the world's most popular programming language.

2025 Congress Delegate, Professor Arja Sääkslahti Jyväskylä Summer School, organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and Science and Information Technology at the University of Jyväskylä, has been awarded. The award recognizes long-term, committed work for the summer school, which is organized regularly and brings together hundreds of academic juniors and seniors year after year to network and learn from each other.