HappyOrNot Ltd. is a Finnish company that makes feedback terminals for measuring customer satisfaction. The terminals consist of four smiley-faced buttons that customers are invited to press to indicate whether they are very happy, happy, unhappy or very unhappy with the service they were provided. This information is used by companies to find points where they are providing suboptimal service and to […]
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Ata Gears Oy is a Finnish producer of spiral bevel gears founded in 1937. The headquarter is in Tampere. The company produces transmission parts for marine and industrial applications. Products Ata produces gears up to 3000 mm of outer diameter. The annual production is 8000 spiral bevel gear sets of which 65% are exported.
Jolla Oy is a Finnish technology company; vendor and developer of Sailfish OS. Headquartered in Tampere, Finland, Jolla has its own research and development offices in Helsinki, Tampere and Cyberport, Hong Kong. Sailfish OS Operating system Sailfish OS is an operating system that can be adapted to different mobile devices. Also, the software can be tailored to best fit the consumer needs, from companies to mass consume. It is […]
The Spy Museum is the world’s first public museum of international espionage, located in Tampere, Finland. The museum was founded in 1998. The idea of the museum was invented by Teppo Turja, who founded the museum. The museum is the only one of its kind in Europe, besides Spy Museum Berlin. Museum The museum is located in the centre of Tampere in the old Finlayson factory building, which […]
The Rupriikki Media Museum is a history museum devoted to mass communication. It is located in the Vapriikki Museum Centre, in Tampere, Finland. Rupriikki showcases media history. Collections include cellular phones, radios, telephones, computers, and press materials. Exhibitions The museum has a permanent exhibition about the history of mass communication. It is broken up into thematic sections. The exhibition “Messages from Pirkanmaa” focuses on the development of mass […]
The Finnish Museum of Games is a museum dedicated to the history of Finnish games located in Vapriikki Museum Centre in Tampere, Finland. The museum exhibition consists of 100 Finnish games, six thematic period rooms, a video game arcade and a changing exhibition space. Overall, the museum has around 85 playable digital games. The museum was created with the help of a crowdfunding campaign arranged in 2015. […]
Moomin Museum is situated in the city of Tampere, Finland. Shown at the Moomin Museum are illustrations by Tove Jansson (the creator of Moomins), 40 miniatures, tableaux about Moomin events and a small (2.5 metres high) Moomin House. There are about 2,000 exhibits on display. Also shown is the original Moominvalley multimedia. The Moomin Shop sells gift items and the Moomin Library […]
This museum will put you right in the shoes of a worker during Tampere’s industrial boom in the 19th and early-20th centuries. It covers an entire city block and preserves five residential buildings, each one representing a different stage of Tampere’s industrial development (1802-1973). Inside you’ll follow the stories of the people who lived here, […]
In the Hatanpää arboretum you can get acquainted with trees, shrubs, perennials, annual summer flowers and spice plants. The pearl of the arboretum is the rose garden, located south of the Hatanpää manor house. The rose garden is bordered by an old manor park. The park is also home to Hatanpää Manor, which is used […]
Näsinneula is an observation tower in Tampere, Finland, overseeing Lake Näsijärvi. It was built in 1970–1971 and was designed by Pekka Ilveskoski. It is the tallest free-standing structure in Finland and at present the tallest observation tower in the Nordic countries at a height of 168 metres (551 ft). The tower opened in 1971 and is located in the Särkänniemi amusement park. There is a revolving restaurant in […]
Särkänniemi is an amusement park in Tampere, Finland, located in the district by the same name. The park features an aquarium, a planetarium, a children’s zoo, an art museum and an observation tower Näsinneula (Näsi Needle). Särkänniemi is the second most popular amusement park in Finland with Linnanmäki in Helsinki being the most popular one. Särkänniemi has five rollercoasters: the inverted coaster Tornado, the flying coaster Trombi, the family motorcycle […]
The Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame is housed in and administered by the Suomen Jääkiekkomuseo (Finnish Ice Hockey Museum), a part of the Vapriikki Museum Centre, in Tampere, Finland. The Suomen Jääkiekkomuseo was founded in 1979 with the mission to record, document, and exhibit objects, photographs, and printed materials related to Finnish ice hockey. The original Kanada-malja and the Aurora Borealis Cup are on display along with a […]
Tampere Cathedral is a Lutheran church in Tampere, Finland, and the seat of the Diocese of Tampere. The building was designed in the National Romantic style by Lars Sonck, and built between 1902 and 1907. The cathedral is famous for its frescoes, painted by the symbolist Hugo Simberg between 1905 and 1906. The paintings aroused considerable adverse criticism in their time, featuring versions of Simberg’s The Wounded Angel and The Garden of […]
The Pyynikki observation tower is a 26 meter observation tower in Tampere, Finland. It was completed in 1929 by the design of the city architect Vilho Kolho, and built using local red granite. The tower stands 75 meters above the level of the adjacent lake Pyhäjärvi (152 meters above the sea level) on the Pyynikki ridge crest. The top can be reached by a […]
The Vapriikki Museum Centre is a cluster of museums operating in the old factory premises of Tampella, in Tampere, Finland. The name Vapriikki derives from the Swedish word fabrik, meaning factory. In 2019, the centre was visited by over 170,000 visitors. Of the total floor area of 14,000 square metres (150,000 sq ft), approximately half is available for exhibitions and other public use. In 2017, Vapriikki Museum […]
Coxa – Hospital for Joint Replacement is the only hospital in Finland that specializes fully in joint replacement surgery. Coxa Hospital for Joint Replacement is committed to providing the best possible care for its patients and to restore their functional capacity to help them go back to enjoying their normal daily lives as quickly as possible. […]
Tampere University Hospital is a teaching hospital of Tampere University along Teiskontie at the Kauppi district in Tampere, Finland. It serves as one of the main hospitals in the country and operates in the facilities of Central Hospital (Keskussairaala) and Heart Hospital (Sydänsairaala) in Tampere, Pitkäniemi Hospital in Nokia, Valkeakoski Hospital in Valkeakoski and Sastamala Hospital in Sastamala. 34 medical specialties are represented at Tampere University Hospital. Most of the […]
Tampere Vocational College Tredu (Finnish: Tampereen seudun ammattiopisto Tredu) is a college based in Tampere, Finland. It is part of the Tampere Upper Secondary Education and offers study vocational programmes in Finnish secondary education. 1st January 2013 Pirkanmaa Educational Consortium and Tampere College united to become Tampere Vocational College Tredu. It offers more than 100 programmes in seven out of eight vocational […]
The Police University College is a university of applied sciences in Tampere, Finland providing police academy training and research under the Ministry of the Interior for the Police of Finland and other Finnish law enforcement units. Education The Police University College is responsible for overall police training and student selection, for organizing degree and advanced studies, and for applied research and development in the police field. The […]
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) is a Finnish university of applied sciences that offers education to about 10,000 students in seven fields. In addition to Tampere , TAMK operates in Ikaalinen , Mänttä-Vilppula Mänttä and Virra . The teaching offered at TAMK focuses especially on technology, social and health care, business administration and culture. Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAOK) is also part of TAMK, where you can study as […]
Tampere University is a Finnish university that was established on 1 January 2019 as a merger between the University of Tampere and Tampere University of Technology. The new university is also the major shareholder of Tampere University of Applied Sciences. Organisation Faculties Tampere University comprises the following faculties: Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences Faculty of Management and Business […]
Dreamloop Games Ltd., known as Dreamloop, is a Finnish video game developer based in Tampere, Finland. Games In November 2015, Dreamloop released the arcade shooter Stardust Galaxy Warriors for PC. The game features 1-4 player local co-op multiplayer, and has been received well by both critics and the Steam community. In April 2016, in an interview on PopGeeks.net, Dreamloop Games announced […]
Alasin Media Oy is a Finnish media industry company, founded in the year 2004, that produces communication to different media and translation services. Alasin Media operates and is headquartered in Tampere, Finland Mikko-Heikki Heinonen acts as CEO, Ville-Veikko Heinonen as chairman. To the single Finnish consumer, works by Alasin Media can be seen e.g. in Nokian Tyres promotional material. The company is also active on the […]
Tampere is a city in Pirkanmaa in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries; it has a population of 238,140 with the urban area holding 334,112 people and the metropolitan area, also known as the Tampere sub-region, holding 385,301 inhabitants in an area of 4,970 km2 . Tampere is wedged between two lakes, Näsijärvi and Pyhäjärvi. Tampere […]