Support to small and medium-sized cities

One million Finns live in approximately 50 small and medium sized cities, which are 2nd or 3rd tier cities in their respective regions. Development of these cities is vital for regional development, as these cities are important service centres and potential local growth motors. Ministry of Employment and the Economy is launching a pilot programme to develop these small and medium sized cities. MDI arranges workshops for the cities in May and in autumn and organises a kick off session for the pilot procedure in January 2014.

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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