Innovativeness to Public Procurement

Public procurement represents a volume of 35 billion euro, approximately 19 % of GDP in Finland (2010). Public procurement plays a significant role in renewing service production in the public sector, creating cost efficiency and better quality in services, and providing incentives for new businesses. MDI spars Linna Development Ltd and the city of Hämeenlinna in the search of innovative public procurements. The process kicked off with an afternoon training session with 30 professionals. The work continues with procurement clinics in September. MDI implements the process in cooperation with Business Law Finland Ltd.

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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