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Ahjoniemi Mira
Project manager
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Project management, development, participatory budgeting and Meidän Riksu resident surveys.
Participatory budgeting
Participatory budgeting allows residents to decide how the city's public funds are used. The goal of participatory budgeting is to brainstorm and decide together to make Riihimäki an even more functional place to live.
In Riihimäki, 100,000 euros are spent annually on participatory budgeting. Proposals for development projects can be made by private individuals, communities and groups freely gathered around a topic, such as clubs, school classes or hobby groups.
Participate in budgeting at allustu.riihimaki.fi.
Stages of participatory budgeting
The process progresses in stages from idea search to further development of ideas, voting by city residents, and finally the city implements the selected ideas.
2026 season schedule
- September 22–November 22, 2025, gathering and supporting ideas.
- Evaluating and working on proposals that received at least 10 endorsements by November 22 into plans.
- November 25, 2025, 5-7 p.m., workshop on turning ideas into plans open to residents at Anton's house (Öllerinkatu 3)
- January 5-31, 2026 participatory budgeting vote.
- Publication of results in February 2026 (week 6).
- Implementation of the winning plans during 2026.
Anyone can submit suggestions. Only Riihimäki residents, 6th graders and older children and youth, and adults are allowed to vote. The voter must be registered in the city of Riihimäki and the voter must not have a data security ban, which prevents the transmission of hometown information. You can vote online with bank credentials, a mobile certificate or students' MPASSid credentials.
Results of the 2026 season vote
In January 2026, 1464 Riihimäki residents voted in the participatory budgeting. Voting ended on January 31, 2026, and 12 plans were selected for implementation. The ideas voted for implementation in order of the number of votes:
- 836 votes, Higher quality school food experiment €35,000
- 478 votes, Afternoon snack for middle schools experiment €10,000
- 396 votes, Contribution to the costs of the Homeless Night event €1,000
- 386 votes, Free activities for all ages €10,000
- 377 votes, water tram to Riihimäki swimming pool €5,000
- 307 votes, Free snacks for high school students experiment €10,000
- 299 votes, More defibrillators for Riihimäki €10
- 292 votes, support from Asenne ry and moped activities for young people €6,000
- 277 votes, Bicycle maintenance equipment to borrow from the library €1,000
- 273 votes, Riihimäki Traffic Park pop-up €2,000
- 270 votes, Children's Ö, Ö-house life for children and families €3,000
- 251 votes, Benches for bus stops (Original budget €10,000) €7000
The total budget of the plans to be implemented is 100 euros. Proposals were selected for implementation in order according to the number of votes, so that the total amount of 000 euros is as full as possible, but not exceeded.
Detailed plans and voting results can be seen on the participation platform participate.riihimaki.fi.
The short address for this page is riihimaki.fi/osallistuva-budjetointi.
Rules, schedules and instructions
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- 22.9.– 22.11.2025 idea search and gathering of support
- Evaluation and processing of proposals that have received at least 10 votes into plans
- November 25.11.2025, 17, 19-XNUMX p.m., OSBU ideas into plans workshop open to residents at Anttoni House
- 5.– 31.1.2026 voting
- Publication of the results in the week of 6/2026
- Implementation of the winning plans during 2026.
All 6th grade children and youth and adults who are residents of Riihimäki can participate in the vote.
Ideas can be entered and viewed on the participation platform osallistu.riihimaki.fi
You can access the participation platform with bank credentials, a mobile certificate or students' MPASSid credentials. Drafting an idea on a paper form is possible in Tietotupa (Information Center), in the library and in Riksula.
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The proposed activity and idea must be
- in line with the city's strategy and values
- feasible within the city's jurisdiction
- universally useful and producing joy for as many as possible
- regarding investment projects aimed at improving the public environment
Since the use of the participative budgeting allocation is decided annually, participative budgeting can be used to make purchases and implement one-time projects. Participatory budgeting projects can be, for example, various events or the hiring of temporary personnel.
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International EmPac – The Finnish partners of the Empowering Participatory Budgeting in the Baltic Sea Region project LAB University of Applied Sciences (LAB) and the University of Tampere (TAU) support the implementation of participatory budgeting in the city of Riihimäki, for example by carrying out an evaluation of the participatory budgeting process. For this purpose, during spring winter 2021, LAB and TAU collected the thoughts, views and experiences of the Riihimäki city organization and the citizens of participatory budgeting through surveys, interviews and workshops, among other things. The EmPaci project is financed by the EU's Interreg Baltic Sea Region fund.
LAB's announcement on 21.1.2021 January: A handbook was completed to support participatory budgeting
More information
University of Tampere
Lotta-Maria Sinervo, responsible director
lotta-maria.sinervo@tuni.fiLAB University of Applied Sciences
Annukka Heinonen, project manager
annukka.heinonen@lab.fi
