{"id":12290,"date":"2025-02-04T16:43:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esbosfp.fi\/?page_id=12290"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:43:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:43:38","slug":"valprogram-2025-for-sfp-i-esbo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esbosfp.fi\/en\/election\/valprogram-2025-for-sfp-i-esbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Program 2025 for SFP in Espoo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A child- and youth-friendly Espoo with functional learning pathways<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SFP in Espoo aims to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ensure the Swedish learning pathway from early childhood education to upper secondary school and vocational education in Swedish.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Preserve a comprehensive school network.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provide a safe school environment and safe routes to school for everyone, ensuring pedestrian-friendly planning and construction.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Introduce diverse language teaching and light-weight immersion starting in preschool.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Offer language immersion programs in various parts of Espoo, from daycare through comprehensive school, while encouraging schools to promote language learning.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Foster collaboration across linguistic boundaries between schools.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Renovate and expand the Mattliden school buildings and establish a cultural hub on the premises as a meeting spot for Espoo residents.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guarantee high-quality municipal and outsourced services for children and youth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Support entrepreneurship education for young people.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure access to general upper secondary education and attractive, high-quality vocational training. Increase the number of study places in upper secondary institutions to lower admission thresholds for Espoo\u2019s high schools.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strengthen schools&#8217; role in preventing social exclusion and bullying.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A thriving Espoo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SFP in Espoo aims to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Promote young people\u2019s well-being by investing in meaningful spare-time activities and hobbies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Increase youth services in Swedish, such as more Swedish-language youth centers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure that seniors&#8217; needs for services, housing, and meeting places are met.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commit to long-term and systematic efforts to promote health and well-being.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enable people of all ages to engage in physical activity in their local environment.<br>This includes a wide range of options, from sports fields, gyms, swimming pools, and trails for walking, skiing, running, or cycling, to recreational areas accessible to people with disabilities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Complete the Espoo Waterfront Walkway (Rantaraitti \u2013 Strandpromenaden).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure access to coastal areas for residents, enabling activities like kayaking, boating, and swimming.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Preserve the infrastructure around Espoo\u2019s approximately 20 marinas for recreational and sailing boats, including winter storage facilities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Acknowledge the third sector\u2019s role in promoting well-being and participation, and strengthen opportunities for community activities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make Espoo a safe and pleasant city.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Integrate the prevention of violence\u2014both physical and psychological\u2014in close relationships into municipal work, alongside services for victims.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prevent social exclusion across all age groups.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Counter gang formation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Combat substance abuse.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Promote inclusive, cross-linguistic, and cross-departmental collaboration in the city\u2019s social programs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure access to social and healthcare services in both national languages. Collaborate with the welfare region to secure these services.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inform residents about the location of nearby civil defense shelters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An inclusive and multicultural Espoo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SFP in Espoo aims to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Make Espoo free from racism.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Offer integration services in both national languages equally, based on clients&#8217; needs and preferences.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Develop an effective Swedish-language integration pathway, aiming for 5\u201310% of immigrants to integrate in Swedish.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Allow integration to occur with one primary national language, supplemented by learning the basics of the other national language.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Combat segregation and actively include immigrants.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Engage the third sector in the city\u2019s integration efforts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Actively support the integration of people arriving in Finland on work permits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A financially stable and competitive Espoo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SFP in Espoo aims to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Making Espoo an attractive city for entrepreneurship.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Securing a good level of services with stable finances and high employment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Positioning Espoo as Finland\u2019s leading innovation city, offering services and opportunities for startups and international companies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Urban planning and land use that support entrepreneurship and business.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scrutinizing major infrastructure projects to ensure ecological and economic sustainability.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Running employment services more effectively, given the municipality\u2019s increased responsibilities. Espoo should actively manage employment offices and reduce youth and long-term unemployment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Creating structures and conditions for the establishment of new businesses and jobs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Utilizing the vast potential among new residents by ensuring immigrants are offered jobs that match their skills and education, rather than merely filling labor shortages.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Avoiding tax increases as a long-term solution for balancing the economy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A climate-smart and environmentally friendly Espoo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SFP in Espoo will work for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sustainability and livability in urban planning and construction, considering city planning, street layouts, building materials, and energy use.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Designing diverse areas with a variety of housing types, maintaining livability and access to nature.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Respecting the character of neighborhoods when planning infill development.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Preserving natural areas in urban planning to ensure nature is accessible to residents.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Establishing functional, flexible public transportation and providing parking spaces for cars, bikes, and electric scooters near transit stations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expanding the coverage area of city bikes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Introducing clear regulations concerning electric scooters in Espoo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strengthening biodiversity by creating more meadows and actively combating invasive species.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Promoting cleaner waterways and reducing the burden on the Baltic Sea.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Actively maintaining Espoo\u2019s approximately 95 lakes, such as Bj\u00f6rnviken (fi. 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