Jyväskylä’s metropolis authorities, schooling establishments and Expa have signed an settlement that aligns a shared plan for its video games sector growth technique.
The settlement focuses on strengthening scholar employment, schooling pathways in addition to worldwide visibility and studio creation.
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A brand new partnership between native schooling establishments, Expa Sport Enterprise Cooperative and the Metropolis of Jyväskylä goals to create a unified technique for the Finnish metropolis’s video games trade.
The brand new cooperation settlement, which got here into impact on January 1st 2026, brings collectively Jamk College of Utilized Sciences, College of Jyväskylä, and Gradia underneath a shared growth framework targeted on areas resembling scholar employment and schooling.
In response to the organisations concerned, the technique is designed to strengthen Jyväskylä’s place as a video games hub in addition to in digital know-how and different associated fields.
The settlement turns Expa’s ecosystem work right into a shared growth programme, with its affect tracked by areas resembling scholar employment, new firms and worldwide visibility.
Constructing video games ecosystems
Whereas Jyväskylä has been an energetic video games ecosystem for the previous decade, it has lacked a unified construction, which the settlement now seems to deal with.
College students will acquire entry to networking and recruitment initiatives, together with Expa’s annual internships and employment occasion, which introduced collectively 21 Finnish recreation firms and greater than 150 college students earlier this 12 months.
The organisations concerned can even collaborate on trade publications, trade insights and worldwide visibility initiatives whereas persevering with to develop the town’s Digi & Sport Middle as a video games hub.
Programme supervisor Sanna Laakso said that Jyväskylä has “sturdy potential to turn out to be considered one of Finland’s main gaming hubs.”
Expa Chair Valtteri “Wanda” Lahti added: “Jyväskylä has lengthy had all of the components for progress – schooling, expertise, firms and a robust group.”
For extra from the Finnish video games market Pocket Gamer Connects Nordics takes place on October twentieth and twenty first.
