OECD: Invest in the tail

Janne Antikainen ran an international regional development seminar in Nordregio, Stockholm. The seminar focused on smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and it laid basis for the Nordic countries to seek strategic guidelines or regional development after 2013. All the presentation material may be seen at http://www.nordregio.se/System/News-on-hold/Smart-sustainable-and-inclusive-regions/. The pearl of all interesting presentations was ”Promoting Growth in All Regions” by José Enrique Garcilazo of OECD (click link below). OECD’s main message on growth: 2/3 of the growth comes from smaller towns instead of big citites, therefore development investments should also be directed to this group.

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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