What problems does Commu help solve?
Increasing helping and the exchange of skills
People need peer-to-peer help as part of the wellbeing system. Everyone has resources, capabilities, and strengths.
Advancing the sustainability transition
Strengthening wellbeing, participation, the intangible circular economy, and the natural environment as part of strategy, together with residents.
Increasing safety and strengthening democracy
Participation, activity, and new ways of taking part strengthen mental resilience and increase stability and safety in society.
How Commu benefits municipalities and cities
Strengthen residents’ wellbeing, participation, and quality of life
- Strengthen community spirit and encourage residents to meet one another
- Help reduce loneliness and social exclusion, and support the integration of newcomers
Plan, involve, and inform
- Easily involve residents in decision-making through community work, news, surveys, and digital resident panels
- Grow the municipality’s appeal and resident satisfaction
- Use Commu’s activity data to feed into your municipality’s wellbeing reporting and national wellbeing indicators
Organize the municipality’s own volunteer activities
- Bring third-sector activity to life and reach new volunteers
- Commu’s tools make it easy to manage volunteering organized by the municipality, for example cultural-companion, village-mentor, and befriending schemes
- Integration with local or national volunteer portals brings third-sector listings directly into Commu, where such an integration is available
Benefit from wide, positive visibility
- Highlight public stories of helping and local resident benefits — positive stories build appeal and retention
- Benefit from wide visibility through Commu’s own communication channels
Did you know…💚
25–30% of Commu’s users have an immigrant background
20% of Commu’s users are over 60
45% of Commu’s users are 18–39 years old
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More neighborly help, participation, and safety
Commu’s community platform helps strengthen mental resilience in a municipality. Commu acts as a shared platform for the municipality, residents, and third-sector and preparedness actors before, during, and after a crisis. Commu also offers community support to people arriving in an area — for example, in an evacuation situation.
Network-based cooperation strengthens resilience already in normal times and helps ease the burden on authorities during a crisis, once the roles, processes, and resources of the various actors have been clarified. This way, residents can take part safely.
By developing participation, community spirit, and mental resilience, a municipality builds residents’ trust, hope, and sense of belonging.
Commu app for residents
Commu is a free mobile app for residents. A resident can ask for or offer neighborly help, join a community clean-up day, or take part in the municipality’s or local associations’ volunteer activities. Remote help is also possible, regardless of location!
In Commu, a user can see the municipality’s free resident benefits and take part in the municipality’s wellbeing work and surveys.
An award-winning community app
Global ESG Awards
Winner of the Impact Award for community spirit and social responsibility
United Nations
UN recognition for peace and civilian assistance,
Nordic Proptech Awards
Best Nordic sustainability solution for cities
Raseborg
“Helping one another matters in our city, and thanks to the Commu app, it’s now easier than ever. The app makes it easy for residents to get involved and get to know their local community in a new way.”
Jennifer Gammals, City Development Manager
Harjavalta
“Community spirit is a resource that can significantly improve residents’ wellbeing. Commu offers a unique opportunity to bring neighbors closer together and make asking for and offering help easy and effortless.”
Riikka Lammi, Welfare Leader
Kangasala
“In our municipality, we want to strengthen everyday community spirit, and Commu offers a functional, approachable platform for that. Loneliness affects more and more people. We also have a lot of new residents moving in who don’t yet have their own network.
Through Commu, people can find meaningful things to do, reduce loneliness, and strengthen their everyday sense of safety, with a low threshold to get started.
Working with Commu, we want to build a community where everyone can feel like they belong and take part in creating a good everyday life together with others.”
Marjut Hietaniemi, Welfare Coordinator
Nokia
“Our city is happy to join forces with Commu to promote community life and everyday neighborly help! We, too, have recognized a growing longing for community, alongside a rise in experiences of loneliness and the need for help. As a city and as residents, we can respond to this with Commu’s help.
Commu’s potential as a community app knows no age limit — people can offer and receive help for all kinds of everyday needs, or even for an association’s volunteer work day.”
Asta Paasi, Welfare Leader