Front page News News Three Tough Musketeers Join MDI on Valentine’s Day Three Tough Musketeers Join MDI on Valentine’s Day 14.2.2015 Our fight for better regional development receives an uplift in solid reinforcements. MDI has appointed three top class researchers and doers. We have the pleasure of introducing Timo Aro, Sami Moisio, and Perttu Vartiainen as MDI’s senior advisors on regional policy. During the spring 2015, we will come out with our proposal for better regional development in Finland together with our three musketeers. Dr. Timo Aro works as a development manager at the city of Pori. He is an enthusiastic researcher whose expertise areas include regional and population studies, evaluations, and EU’s funding mechanisms. Lately, Aro has focused especially on migration research in Finland. Dr. Sami Moisio is a professor at the University of Helsinki with his expertise being in regional planning and policy. During the recent years, his research themes have included e.g. regional change of the state, regional policy and European integration. Dr. Perttu Vartiainen is a professor at the University of Eastern Finland. He has a profound knowledge of Finnish regions, their development needs and latest research. 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
