Sparring for innovation activities in the rural areas

MDI provides sparring for the innovation activities and environments in the rural areas during the final quarter of 2012. The first part deals with the Kaustinen region and the Lake District of South Ostrobotnia and MDI helps to redefine the existing strengths and to brush up the development spearheads in the regions. The second part focuses on designing a HUB concept for the rural areas. The main objective is to create a distinctive HUB concept for little towns that would also be interesting from the national innovation policy perspective. Both tasks have been appointed to MDI by the Innovation network coordinated by Frami Ltd.

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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