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Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive Open image viewerThe town is already seeing its birth rate rise Image: AOPYle News6.7.2020 14:04The small 6,000-odd-resident town of Virrat in the Pirkanmaa region has said that it will pay a bonus of 4,000 euros for each new baby born Parents will be eligible for the perk if their babies are registered as residents when they are born they can apply for the funds after the child’s birth The local birth rate has been rising in recent years and the town expects to welcome between 35 and 40 newborns this year "They are all entitled to the baby money that we are using to remind people of the exceptional opportunity to enjoy life here in Virrat," mayor Juha Viitasaari said Virrat is not the only town in Finland to offer a baby bonus to attract more future taxpayers but is one of the few to offer such a substantial incentive Central Ostrobothnia’s tiny Lestijärvi with a population of just over 700 has claimed the title of providing the biggest bonus at 10,000 euros Parents receive 1,000 euros per year for 10 years under the scheme and so far more than 60 children have received the funds Mehikkälä in southeast Finland and Luhanka in central Finland while Simo in northern Finland offers a 5,000-euro sweetener for families to settle and raise children there Last year an Yle analysis found that dozens of towns and municipalities offer small baby bonuses and gifts valued at between 300 and 500 euros Babies born in Virrat will receive their financial gifts over a period of eight years with the first sum of 500 euros paid soon after birth The programme will apply to infants born from 2020 onwards Some babies born earlier this year received only 400 euros at birth on the basis of a previous scheme that existed before the new bonus was introduced However city officials said they will receive an extra 100 euros to bring them on par with others The taxman will get his share of the bonus as it is taxable income The support is part of the city’s "vitality package" that also includes free housing for students as well as an annual stipend of 400 euros for tertiary education students The city is also investing in attracting young adults and families with children by building a daycare and comprehensive school out of logs -- the town’s largest investment Funds will also be spent on building outdoor leisure facilities with a separate skateboard park street basketball court and a parkour track SuomeksiTampere university / Tampere university of applied sciencesSearchMenuTuni.fi›About us›Our Alumnus Juuso "Köpi" Kallio: As a radio personality I want to offer people a little break from everythingStoryOur Alumnus Juuso "Köpi" Kallio: As a radio personality I want to offer people a little break from everythingPublished on 15.1.2021 updated on 28.12.2023Tampere University of Applied SciencesJuuso Kallio thinks that laugh is the best reaction the human body can produce Kallio’s work includes making people laugh for 42 hours non-stop for the benefit of children worldwide Many know him as Köpi from the radio channel YleX.Kallio graduated as a Bachelor of Culture and Arts from Tampere University of Applied Sciences in 2015 He studied digital sound and commercial music in the Degree Programme in Media in the town of Virrat The same contents can nowadays be studied at TAMK Mediapolis in Tampere Even if Kallio first felt doubtful about the remote location of Virrat his friends’ and field-specific professionals’ recommendations made him convinced of it being “a tough programme” The high level of the programme also became apparent in the entrance examinations as the doors did not open to him the first time The degree programme was Kallio’s second choice then but he would have needed the points given to the first choice in order to be admitted Juuso Kallio had emergency care or fire fighting in mind and he almost ended up in the Emergency Services Academy "Then I noticed that I rather watched drama scenes in Grey’s Anatomy and other series than the ones with blood I realised that maybe it is not the right work for me." Music has been present in Kallio’s life since he was a teen and his father encouraged him to apply for music-related culture and arts studies The close-knit atmosphere of the small town created an exceptionally strong team spirit among the student group and teachers Kallio still has close occupational and personal contacts with many of his peer students Spontaneity of the teaching made him feel like spending time with a group of friends At times we went to student parties in Tampere and also completed some studies there It is typical of the degree programme that careers are already started during the study time Peer students supported one another and the school equipment and settings were perfect for making work samples he was most interested in mixing and improving the quality of his productions Soon he became more interested in record company operation and business Kallio however ended up as a radio host in his home town Pori and radio work became a part of his everyday life Combination of studying in Virrat and working fulltime in Pori succeeded flexibly at TAMK Kallio’s radio work was approved as practical training At times he worked for a week and then studied for a longer time Sometimes he studied for a day and worked for a couple of days I learnt to know the Pori–Tampere–Virrat–Pori triangle when driving it I realised that I became a radio journalist Even if Kallio did not directly study radio work the studies have been highly useful on his radio career Studio work was familiar to him and he did not have to feel nervous of it Kallio understands signal chains and sound waves and can solve surprising technical problems and create soundscapes Sound can be used to create rooms and situations." Graduation from TAMK and being a TAMK alumnus are an honour to Kallio "It is important to be a part of a community and for me TAMK is that I believe that human beings are psychosomatic wholes Everyone knows if graduation is significant for them Incompleteness may bother and graduation may help to achieve their internal zen Kallio was awoken by the alarm clock at 5.30 and headed for the morning broadcast of the national YleX radio channel at 6.30 He hosted the broadcast with his long-term colleague Ville ”Viki” Eerikkilä his hard work paid off when Kallio was hired by YleX I had graduated and I could say that I had made hundreds of live broadcasts." Köpi and Viki had just hosted a live radio broadcast called YleX Laugh Marathon for record-breaking 42 hours non-stop The previous Laugh Marathon won the Golden Venla Award for the best programme in 2020 The psychologically and physically demanding broadcast raises funds for children around the world The expectation of being funny is however present at work Highlights are collected of all morning broadcasts Do you feel pressure to be funny all the time Luckily there is a thing called maturation I do not want the work to determine who I am It is a fact that nobody can be funny all the time Would anything be funny if everything was funny all the time?" Every year people either love or hate me more I think radio work is mainly improvisation we will have a new chance in three and a half minutes A bit like a bad player change in ice hockey Kallio was chosen as the media person of the year at the Industry Awards gala in 2019 performed in media events and done sketches "I do not know what it feels like to a be a media person Probably a bit distressing for such a sarcastic and cynical person as me." the award was great as the choice was made by colleagues and professionals of the field the media person is only a part of the picture How is it possible to separate between work and personal life "​​​Radio has always been therapy for me at other people’s expense It is great that people have let me be who I am even if it is said that the world is a bleak place I like telling stories of my life for three and a half hours every day Kallio has faced people’s many assumptions and prejudices about what he is like He still trusts that majority of people understand that the media person is not the same as he himself Kallio is quits with his radio personality Kallio feels that he more represents himself and ordinary people at work than a radio channel or his employer On the grass root level of programme production you cannot talk to people from the heights but you have to be a human being yourself Making people laugh has always given pleasure to Kallio He receives plenty of feedback and he thinks it is the best part of his work People tell him that they were depressed but found content into their life by listening to the morning broadcast "​​​We did not solve their problems or make them happy but the three and a half hours we offered in the morning made them think about something else." the radio has given people something else to think as many work remotely We have not offered corona information in the morning broadcasts Media persons however influence in good and bad Kallio can raise topics for discussion and at Yleisradio he has broad freedom of speech He can for example safely crack a political joke about any party "​​​​​In principle I would like to offer people time off from everything I am not highly interested in political matters but I would like to make a podcast on people’s everyday lapses The same persons who share social media posts on preventing bullying may run down Isaac Elliot when his song is played on the radio Kallio would like to ask people in such situations if they understand that they make themselves guilty of bullying.  Kallio has good tips for those dreaming of becoming a radio journalist You learn well by making by yourself and by screwing up." Kallio encourages to swallow your ego and give up the thought that you should reach the top right after school the work in the local radio was his best lesson on practical work Because Kallio has a rap background and makes songs sometimes I gave him a challenge at the end of the interview: do a TAMK rap It is not a very hot topic but a challenge I have run naked in a live broadcast and so I do not think it is an impossible task." Here you can read other alumni stories We continue to build our site and welcome all feedback Please also let us know if you spot any mistakes on our site remember to include your email address in your feedback message If you have questions about studying with us, please contact admissions.tau@tuni.fi (Tampere University) or admissions.tamk@tuni.fi (Tampere University of Applied Sciences). If you have problems with your user account or other IT-related issues, get in touch with our IT Helpdesk Tampere university / Tampere university of applied sciencesTampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) constitute the Tampere Universities community. Our areas of priority in research and education are technology, health and society.Tampere University: +358 (0)294 5211Tampere University of Applied Sciences : +358 (0)294 5222 So much of memory is defined by the landscapes in which we have lived. We imbue these physical spaces with emotion and a sense of time past, and we too are marked by the same conditions that define the contours and precipices of our surroundings. As subsequent generations come and go, roads are carved into the hillsides, tunnels dug into the earth, monuments erected and dismantled, homes are built and filled with families and then fall into silent emptiness once more. Arja Nukarinen Callus's paintings offer a highly personal insight into the artist's charged relationship with the various landscapes in which she finds herself. The exhibition is being held between April 5 and 25 at the Malta Society of Arts, 219, Republic Street, Valletta.Virrat 2018. Of Finnish origin, though having long settled in Malta, Callus oscillates between depicting the very different landscapes of her native Nordic homeland and adopted Mediterranean surroundings, reconciling through paint two otherwise diametrically opposed environments. In doing so, she also extrapolates surprising connections between places that have most defined her memories, forming a dialogue between two otherwise disparate sources that uncovers many aspects of each that could otherwise have been easily overlooked. Callus's winter landscapes generally convey the wintery chill of a snowbound Finland through a highly effective economy of means.Arja Nukarinen-Callus A few prosaic brushstrokes may be all that is needed to outline the reflection of a copse of barren trees upon a frozen pond, for example, all dark texture devoid of life and the blinding whiteness of newly settled snow. It may not describe the features of the landscape in forensic detail, but the artist's emotive brushwork evokes the 'truth' of that desolate place – the resilience of the trees, the stillness of the frozen earth and the sense of new life yet to come - better than any conventional, picture-postcard view ever could. In other works, the intense radiance of the Mediterranean is sublimated through the further simplification of colour and form in increasingly serene compositions. Some of the artist's Maltese scenes tend towards a sense of pure abstraction, perhaps reflecting the sublime interplay of the evening light as it bounces off the sea at the end of a long summer's day. For those familiar with the local landscape, you cannot help but recognise the characteristic markers that help define it as essentially Maltese - the honey-coloured stone, crumbling walls and the simple, function-oriented architectural facets of our few remaining rural dwellings. The artist is recording a world in a state of rapid flux, as 'development' and 'progress' quickly demolish what little connection we have left with our natural surroundings into oblivion. By doing so, the artist charges her compositions with a sense of urgency, a need to claim witness to the world that was before it is irrevocably changed. Her compositions seem to coalescence in an merging of substance and emotion, sometimes outright joyful, sometimes more pensive, if not a touch melancholy. In doing so, they recall the paintings of the French Post-Impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard, who similarly used strong colour to reflect both his surroundings as well as indicate his inner feelings, rendering the private and the domestic universal through a harmonious appeal to the senses. Some of the more seemingly minimal compositions even suggest a move towards the radical modernism and concentration on the material qualities of paint extolled by painters of the Art Informel movement. "Virrat, Finland", exhibited here, retains the same dynamic energy that undercuts the work of the German artists Emil Schumacher and Ernst Wilhelm Nay, for example, which was similarly derived from a sustained study of the landscape and the interplay between different colours. In other works, I am struck by the connections raised to the work of masters of the past. The unusually narrow vertical format of "Mellieħa" reminds us of Joseph-Baptiste-Camille Corot's four similarly-shaped panels illustrating the effect of the changing light upon the landscape at four different times of day. The bleached-out, sombre palette evident in other works recalls the bleak scenes of human folly and natural disasters portrayed in some of Francisco Goya's later works. One painting exhibited here (Mtarfa) depicts a landscape reduced to its very most basic principles, a mysteriously blank horizon stretching away into profound darkness. This is almost a depiction of the inner landscape of the soul, more of an emotional state than a topographical space. It is testament to Callus's inherent skill and creative scope that her work is able to straddle such a wise variety of influences and touchstones, and yet still feel so entirely individual, unique and heart-felt. With great emotional generosity, the artist constructs a deep rumination on the spaces we move through, and our place within them. In doing so, she reminds us of those urges, fears, hopes and joys which we so often project upon the world around us only, upon further reflection, to find that the greater answers lie deep within ourselves. George Micallef Eynaud is a London-based researcher, writer and digital archivist  To view comments, please register for free or log in to your account. TT two-time Olympic medallist Keshorn Walcott has qualified for the 2019 IAAF World Championship after winning gold with a season-best 84.81m throw at the Virtain Urheilijoiden meet in Virrat, Finland today. Walcott's golden throw saw him surpass the 2019 IAAF World Championship qualifying standard of 83m. It was Walcott's second gold medal win in Finland within seven days, yet a considerable upgrade from the 81.68m effort, which won him gold in Kuortane last week. Open image viewerThe suspects live in the Helsinki metropolitan area Image: AOPYle News14.5.2020 20:35•Updated 14.5.2020 20:49Police have arrested two men from the Helsinki metropolitan area on suspicion of committing aggravated drug offences in relation to isolated summer cottages suspected to have been used as cannabis farms have also been seized as part of the investigation A preliminary investigation was launched when a cannabis farm was discovered at a property in the village of Kolho near Mänttä-Villpula in the Pirkanmaa region there were clear indications that the drug was being grown by a person or persons with expertise as the plants had been provided with artificial lighting "This is a 'granny cottage' in the remote countryside of which there are many in Finland," the Central Finland Police Department’s commissioner Kari Aaltio said The term 'granny cottage' ('mummonmökki' in Finnish) refers to a small cottage in a remote area historically used for summer holidays but lacking some of the amenities and comfort modern Finns expect from their rural cabins the suspect owns similar cottages in Virrat and in the Southern Ostrobothnian town of Ähtäri Police conducted a search of each property and evidence of cannabis growth was found at both the Virrat and Ähtäri properties The suspected crime came to light after the police launched their own inquiry but Aaltio encouraged locals in rural areas to contact police if they notice unusual activity buildings that have been empty for a long time start to be used again then suspicions should be raised," Aaltio said About four kilos of cannabis was found during the investigation as well as a consignment of amphetamines which was discovered during the search of an apartment in Helsinki one suspect has been previously involved in the trafficking of cocaine KESHORN Walcott bagged yet another gold medal in Finland after winning the Motonet GP meet, in Tampere, Finland earlier today with an effort of 82.32m. Walcott landed the javelin at 81m in his first attempt followed by 80.26m in his second. His title clinching throw of 82.32m was his third and final throw. Latvia's Gatis Cakks captured the silver medal throwing a season-best 82.16m and Toni Kuusela was third with 80.06. The 26-year-old Walcott said, “I'm satisfied with my performances at the meets I competed in Finland. Now, I'm heading back home for some rest before the National Championships and the Pan Am Games.” Including today's medal, the double Olympic medallist completed his Finland tour with two other gold medals Virrat (84.48), Kuortane (81.68m) and a season-best bronze medal in Turku (86.09). Two new productisation pilots will be implemented during the project. The related virtual tourism destinations have not yet been decided. The Tampere Theatre, Sappee, Marttinen Youth Centre in Virrat and museums have already joined the project. The corona pandemic has affected tourism companies considerably. According to TAMK’s Senior Lecturer Vesa Vuorinen, many are now interested in virtual tourism. Companies will be informed of existing techniques and solutions and their use possibilities. “The time is right for such a project. All contacted companies joined us to plan virtual tourism possibilities. Due to the global situation, people do not anymore travel as much as earlier.” Visit Tampere hopes that international guests will stay longer in Tampere if the city offers more services and tourism destinations for them. “For example, the Japanese are interested in Moomins but only come here for a short visit to the Moomin Museum. The Japanese are very digitally oriented and thus virtual travel is an excellent means for the purpose,” tells Marketing and Communications Specialist Katariina Onnela from Visit Tampere. The virtual tourism technology has developed immensely. Increase in virtual tourism is also an act of responsibility. Virtuality enables experiences for a larger group of people and people who cannot travel for some reason. The project aims at developing a model which supports all-year operation of tourism and experience companies. “Virtual tourism is not yet a large-scale clean business but it is a good showcase and incentive,” Onnela says. “Finns may not be interested in a virtual visit to a campfire but foreigners may be. It can offer considerably more cash flow than the live campfire,” Vuorinen ponders. The participating companies meet one another in seminars which focus on the different possibilities and existing products. The aim is to make companies network. The seminars will begin in the autumn and they are open for all companies. 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