Developing Kotka’s City Strategy and scenario work

The city of Kotka’s current Kotka 2030 city strategy was updated and approved in the spring of 2022. The goal of this work was to draw up a city strategy for the city with clear strategic choices, related sets of measures, a clear set of indicators and a monitoring system. The strategy process was implemented in a participatory manner with the final product being a visual, concise and understandable city strategy. A scenario analysis detailing alternative future development images for Kotka was also being prepared in the context of the city strategy.

The strategy process had five overlapping work phases:
1) Work management and planning
2) Current state analysis
3) Participatory drafting of scenarios
4) Participatory working on the contents of the strategy
5) Formulation of the strategy (includes the creation of a dashboard and monitoring system)

The work was undertaken in cooperation with Turku City Data (TCD) and Eeva Vilkkumaa Oy. The popula.ai population forecasting service was used and developed with TCD, while the scenarios were developed in cooperation with Eeva Vilkkumaa.