This event has ended.
The objective is to bring together all the stakeholders and professionals dealing with civil defence shelter design and emergency planning and construction. The aim is to highlight the importance of accessibility and understanding diverse needs.
Details on the event:
- Target audience: Building professionals in the field of health care. Professionals dealing with civil defence shelter design and emergency planning and construction.
- When: Thursday, September 25, 2025
- Where: Savonia University of Applied Sciences. Microkatu 1, 70210 Kuopio, Finland
- Format: Hybrid
- Type of event: Awareness-raising
- Language: Finnish
- How to participate: Registration is now closed, you can join online here and also follow the event in English.
- Accessibility information: Accessible venue. Captioning and sign language intrepretation in Finnish.
- inclusion | social policy | health care profession | health care system
- Thursday 25 September 2025, 09:00 - 15:00 (EEST)
- Country
- Finland
Programme
- 25 Sep 2025, 09:00 - 15:00 (EEST)Agenda
- 9:00 – 9:30: Opening speeches
- Welcome and opening remarks - Savonia UAS, Vice Rector Mikko Vuoristo
- Introduction to the day and presentation of AccessibleEU - Avaava, Terhi Tamminen
- 9:30 – 9:50: Why is civil protection relevant right now? Areas for improvement in accessibility of civil defence shelters
- Ira Pasi, Project Manager, Ministry of the Interior
- 9:50 – 10:00: Commentary speech: From the history of civil defence shelters to the present – what has changed?
- Pekka Rajajärvi, Senior Adviser, Ministry of the Environment
- 10:00 – 10:20: Civil defence shelters in wellbeing services counties, case Eastern Finland
- Jarkko Jäntti, Hospital Engineering Association and Ville Leinonen, Preparedness and Safety Manager, City of Joensuu
- 10:20 – 10:25: Comments and questions
- 10:25 – 10:40: Considering diverse users in the deployment and communication of civil defence shelters
- Speaker to be confirmed
- 10:40 – 10:50: Break
- 10:50 – 11:30: Concrete accessibility needs from the perspective of persons with different functional impairments
- Speakers:
- Persons with visual impairments: Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired, Juha Sylberg, Accessibility Expert
- Persons with hearing impairments and deaf persons: The Finnish Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Anniina Lavikainen, Development Manager
- Persons with mobility impairments: The Finnish Association of People with Physical Disabilities, Ranja Alava, LL.M., Lawyer, and Johanna Hätönen, Accessibility Expert
- Elderly persons: Alzheimer Society of Finland, Krista Pajala, Organisation Manager
- 11:30 – 12:30: Lunch
- 12:30 – 12:50: Case: Accessibility of Kuopio’s rock shelter
- Mikko Moilanen, Safety Manager, City of Kuopio / Administrative Services
- 12:50 – 13:20: Space planning of civil defence shelters and integration of shelters in the hospital environment
- Sweco Architects, Architect Nicola Ugas
- 13:20 – 13:50: Design and construction of civil defence shelters: Case S1 element shelter
- Design guidelines for the peacetime use of civil defence shelters for professionals
- Karanttia Oy Perusturva
- 13:50 – 14:25: Lessons from Ukraine in civil protection
- Mikko Räkköläinen, Emergency Services Academy Finland
- 14:25 – 14:30: Comments and questions
- 14:30 – 15:00: Summary and closing of the event
- 9:00 – 9:30: Opening speeches
Practical information
- When
- Thursday 25 September 2025, 09:00 - 15:00 (EEST)
- Languages
- Finnish