MDI helping Helsinki in the renewal of city’s governance system

The governance system of the City of Helsinki will change in the beginning of 2017. City has launched discussion of the renewal in the end of 2013. Discussion was lubricated by experts and by a 24-hour MDI workshop for highest political players and civil servants of Helsinki. Workshop focused on key themes and questions as well as on international and national benchmarks and lessons learned. Participants are highly motived for renewal. And it’s about time – City of Helsinki, nowadays a machine running over 4 billion euro annual budget, has changed its governance system last time in early 1970s. 

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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