22.2.2014 Towards new agriculture and rural development

The ex-ante evaluation, that has walked along with the preparation of the Rural Development Programme for Mainland Finland for the 2014–2020 programming period for over one and a half year, is now finished. The evaluators are happy to notice that the ex-ante evaluation has been fully exploited. Rural development will be based on traditional measures, but it will also tackle upcoming challenges with new, innovative means. The significance of the programme in regional development will grow further and play an essential role in renewing the agriculture and rural areas when approaching the 2020s. The ex-ante evaluation was carried out by MDI in co-operation with MTT Agrifood Research Finland, Nordregio, and University of Eastern Finland.

The ex-ante evaluation (report in Finnish, executive summary in English) is published here:

http://www.mmm.fi/attachments/mmm/julkaisut/julkaisusarja/2014/XEmwky399/MMM_M-S_ennakkoarviointi_22014_web.pdf 

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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