Front page News News Storytelling in Karelian countryside Storytelling in Karelian countryside 12.3.2014 About twenty North-Karelian experts sought stories about the regional impact of JOSEK (Joensuu Regional Development Company) in Mekrijärvi. The stories were put together through collective remembering in a 24-hour storytelling camp organised at the eastern most university unit in EU, the Mekrijärvi Research Station of the University of Eastern Finland. The stories started bubbling from setting up JOSEK in 2001 following three main streams of JOSEK’s operations: regional development, business development, and regional marketing. MDI uses the stories to pepper the impact evaluation of JOSEK during 2001–2013. Share to Share to: facebook Share to: linkedin Share to: twitter
Addressing the Gender and Diversity Paradoxes in Innovation — Towards a More Inclusive Policy Design News 5.4.2023 Kaisa Lähteenmäki-Smith Kirsi Siltanen Laura Väliniemi Implicit norms and structural disadvantages derive from previous innovation policies and therefore policies need to be redesigned. Read more Addressing the Gender and Diversity Paradoxes in Innovation — Towards a More Inclusive Policy Design
A sustainable green transition is achieved by investing in the diversity of RDI activities – the AGDA project continues to work on this theme News 12.1.2023 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. Read more A sustainable green transition is achieved by investing in the diversity of RDI activities – the AGDA project continues to work on this theme
MDI leads the co-creative process of developing, piloting and sharing practices for wellbeing in Sustainable Cities News 12.10.2022 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. Read more MDI leads the co-creative process of developing, piloting and sharing practices for wellbeing in Sustainable Cities
