23.3.2015 The Roadmap for Finnish Urban Policy – a €100 Billion Development Question

Finland’s seven largest urban areas will grow by one million inhabitants by 2050. Already during the next 15 years the areas will require housing and infrastructure investments worth at least €100 billion. The Roadmap for Finnish Urban Policy includes ten recommendations for the upcoming governmental term 2015-2019, including renewing the existing planning system and concentrating policy issues dealing with the built environment under a single ministry. The roadmap was ordered by SAK, a major labour market organisation, the Confederation of Finnish Construction Industries and five other organisations. Finland’s best experts in the field of urban development where involved in drafting the roadmap.

Roadmap for Finnish Urban Policy –report. (in Finnish) 

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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A new project funded by the Ministry of Agriculture will explore multi-locality from the point of view of companies and their employers: is place-independence becoming the future norm of successful companies?

Although remote working and place-independent work have already been examined extensively from both the public administration implications and individual perspectives,…

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