MDI scrutinizes the impact of business incubation services in Helsinki Region North

Development Centre Ltd. Helsinki Region North (Keuke) has provided business incubation services to start up firms for almost a decade in the northern part of Helsinki metropolitan area. Services have activated hundreds of companies. Now Keuke wants MDI to scrutinize the impact and best practices of business incubation services during last three years by questionnaire and interviews. In December, an evaluation workshop will focus on future services, as incubation may also be provided to companies, which have been active for more than three years, and those who want to grow and internationalise. Report will be finalised by January 2014. 

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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