MDI sharpened business and innovation services at ELY Centres

MDI supported Ministry of Employment and the Economy in clarifying the critical success factors of regional business and innovation services provided by ELY Centres (Regional Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment). The process summarised the most essential drivers of change, defined the desired basic services of ELY Centres, and identified the critical success factors for focusing the operations. One of the objectives was to find new ideas for developing companies and enhancing growth in regions taken the fact that resources are limited and changes happening on many levels are making the future foggy. The process resulted in ideas how to sharpen the offer and organisation of regional business and innovation services provided through ELY Centres.

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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