Surprisingly Good Spirit in Kick-off of Kainuu Investigation

The investigation of municipal structure of Kainuu, which includes seven out of nine municipalities in the Kainuu Region, had a kick-off meeting with highest political and civil servant representatives from all municipalities on Moday, September 1, 2014 in Snowpolis, Vuokatti. The spirit in the meeting was very promising and devoted. All municipalities are willing to investigate especially three themes: firstly growth – what is the clue of Kainuu growth story, secondly regional and municipal economy and the costs of services, and thirdly, regional social and health care service structure reform. Work has two phases: in year 2014 the building blocks for success are analysed and future vision built, and in the spring 2015 the road map to that vision will be drawn. The decisions on municipal structure will be done in about a year from now.

A sustainable green transition is achieved by investing in the diversity of RDI activities – the AGDA project continues to work on this theme

AGDA is a Nordic development project funded by the Nordic Gender Equality Fund (NIKK). The project focuses on the opportunities that a greater focus on diversity and inclusion could create in the RDI-field, particularly in respect of green transition.

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MDI leads the co-creative process of developing, piloting and sharing practices for wellbeing in Sustainable Cities

The challenge bundle work is the cross-cutting co-development of the “Sustainable City” programme, co-ordinated by the Ministry of the Environment, with the aim of producing and sharing information, knowledge and solutions to the challenges linking cities’ management and practice in the area of leading work towards sustainability. The work produces concrete development measures, new ways of doing things and peer learning.

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