Three Tough Musketeers Join MDI on Valentine’s Day

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. 

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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