Place: XR Center Helsinki, Hämeentie 135 A, 3rd floor ( Time: November 5th, 4–8 PM
What if joy, health, and sustainability could all fit inside one dumpling?
Join us for a one-of-a-kind culinary and immersive event where technology meets taste, health, and happiness!
At the Taste of Joy Club, we’ll explore how the food we choose can make us healthier and happier — while helping our planet, too.
What to expect:
Hands-on dumpling workshop — learn to create delicious dumplings with ingredients that help the body reduce microplastic absorption.
Discover the “Magic Spice” — a natural, flavorful blend that can turn any tasteless dish into your favorite one, making healthy eating irresistibly joyful.
Next Gen Dynamic AI-powered Experience System — let artificial intelligence guide you in choosing the perfect light and soundscape to match your mood and enhance your dining joy.
Sustainable healthy storytelling — feel and experience how mindful food choices can transform your health and our shared future.
Connect & share joy — meet like-minded innovators, impactful and sustainability enthusiasts in a warm, creative community.
Let’s make food not only tasty — but also a force for good. Come experience how AI, sustainability, and joy come together — one dumpling at a time.
Price: 88 e, Early Bird 58e till Oct 25th.
Food include Starter ,Main food and Dessert with Red Wine.
Mobile pay, please mark your name on the payment.
Taste of Joy Event Registration
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The Finnish Happiness Academy, in collaboration with Muoviamo, invites children aged 5–10 to create artworks using recycled plastic! The theme of the artworks is the protection of our marine ecosystems. The plastic art workshop is part of UNESCO’s 2024 Youth Innovation Contest.
What is Finnish Happiness academy?
The Finnish Happiness Academy helps young people and individuals discover happiness through meaningful actions that blend innovation, technology, and the arts. Through interactive workshops and discussions with mentors, we guide them in exploring their passions, creativity, and life direction in collaboration with universities and diverse partners.
Art from recycled plastic bags
The themes for the artworks are inspired by reflecting on the challenges our oceans currently face, how pollution and climate change impact marine conditions, and how we can protect marine biodiversity to ensure that the oceans remain vibrant for future generations.
Plastic bags will be used as materials in the workshop. The competition artworks will be created using collage techniques. Participants can either bring their own plastic bags or use those provided at the workshop. Participation is free.
2024 Youth Innovation Contest
The plastic art workshop is part of the 2024 Youth Innovation Contest: Collaborating to Improve and Protect our Planet (CIPP). It is organized by the International Centre for UNESCO ASPnet (ICUA) and the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE). UNESCO ASPnet (Associated Schools Network) is the world’s largest school network with over 12,000 educational institutions in 182 countries, promoting cultural interaction, sustainable development, and quality education.
The contest aims to inspire children and youth to create solutions for sustainability challenges, focusing on topics like terrestrial ecosystems, climate action, sustainable cities, and marine protection. This plastic art workshop emphasizes the theme of marine protection, encouraging participants to explore ways to preserve our oceans.
Photo/Video Release Permission
Since the plastic art workshop is part of the international Youth Innovation Contest, the winning works will be showcased to a global audience. Therefore, participants are asked for a photo/video release permission and should be prepared to briefly explain on video what their work represents and how it relates to marine protection and the collage theme. The artworks created in the workshop will be photographed, after which participants can take them home.
Virtual Art Exhibition at IloNovi
The artworks created in the workshop will also be displayed in a virtual art exhibition at IloNovi. IloNovi is a virtual house focused on promoting cultural well-being, where users can move and interact as avatars, similar to a computer game.
IloNovi’s Virtual Art Gallery Luovio. IMAGE: IloNovi
Workshop language
Guidance in the workshop will be available in Finnish, Italian, English, and Chinese.
Where?
The plastic art workshop will take place at Kera Hallit halls in Espoo, inside a fully equipped mobile plastic workshop located at Karamalmintie 2, 02630 Espoo. This workshop space is built inside a large white trailer, and offers a unique space for recycling activities. The trailer is positioned next to the halls, marked with a red location marker on the map below. You can park your car next to the plastic workshop. For detailed arrival instructions to Kera Halls, check here.
When?
Saturday, 28.09.2024. The workshop lasts 1.5 hours. Reserve your workshop time using the calendar below!
Note: Participants will be asked for photo/video release permission and should be ready to briefly explain on video what their artwork represents and how it relates to marine protection and the collage theme.
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T — TRANSCENDENCE
Thrive Together
Living Beyond Yourself
The highest level of happiness comes from contributing to something greater than ourselves.
Transcendence is experiencing awe, connection, gratitude, and purpose beyond personal achievement.
It is where happiness becomes flourishing.
Together we explore:
Meaning and purpose
Contribution to society
Community and belonging
Legacy
Service leadership
Creativity
Building a flourishing future
Research consistently shows that relationships matter more than achievements when it comes to long-term happiness.
You will learn how to:
Build deeper connections
Communicate with empathy
Create happier families
Strengthen your community
Lead with authenticity
Because happiness grows when it is shared.
Transformation
From success… to significance.
R — RITUALS
Recreate Your Future
Small Daily Habits That Create Extraordinary Lives
Happiness is not created once. It is created on every day base.
Research shows that our daily habits influence our physical health, emotional resilience, and long-term wellbeing more than occasional big changes.
Inspired by Finnish living traditions, you will learn practical rituals for:
Eating for brain health and longevity
Healthy weight management
Restorative sleep with essential oil
Better concentration
Hormonal balance
Forest Therapy
Mindfulness with sound collected from Finnish Nature
Daily movement 20 mins next to chair and on bed
Gratitude
Hydration with Celtic salt
Sauna rituals
These simple rituals become the foundation of a flourishing life.
Transformation
From knowing… to practicing.
A happy mind begins with a healthy body.
Inspired by Finnish living and whole-food nutrition. No strict diets. Just sustainable habits.
A — AUTHENTICITY
Becoming Your True Self and Embrace Your Emotions
Many people spend years becoming who others expect them to be.
Few discover who they truly are.
Authenticity is having the courage to remove the masks. To accept your strengths. To embrace your imperfections. To speak honestly. To live according to your own values.
This module helps you:
Break limiting beliefs
Develop confidence
Understand your strengths
Discover your purpose
Build meaningful relationships
Lead with authenticity
Embrace Your Emotions
Instead of fighting emotions… learn to understand them.
Inspired by positive psychology and Finnish emotional wellbeing practices, you will discover:
Why every emotion has a purpose
Practical emotional regulation tools
How to calm your nervous system
The “Magic Switch” that shifts your energy
Daily practices to reduce stress naturally
Once your mind becomes quieter… you begin hearing yourself again.
Transformation
From pretending… to belonging.
From external expectations… to living with integrity.
E — ETHICS
Living According to Your Values
In Finland, trust is one of society’s greatest strengths.
Trust begins with integrity.
Ethics is not only about doing what is right.
It is about living consistently with your values, making choices that benefit both yourself and others, and contributing positively to society.
You will discover:
Your personal values
Purpose-driven decision making
Building trust
Responsible leadership
Kindness as a strength
The Finnish culture of honesty and equality
Transformation
From external expectations… to living with integrity.
H — HARMONY
Heal Your Story
“You cannot create a new future while carrying an old identity.”
Many of our worries are not caused by today’s problems. They can grow from old beliefs, expectations and stories we continue telling ourselves.
