MDI camped out with rural developers in Kainuu

MDI set up a three-day innovation camp in Sopen tupa, Kajaani August 15-17, 2013. Regions of Kainuu and Northern Ostrobothnia joined the innovation camp as a start-up for a series of five regional innovation camps. There was a large and diverse group of actors from two provinces working together and brainstorming new ideas and operation models for the development of rural areas. Ideas were developed in five pre-defined themes. MDI was appointed for the work by the Rural Network Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

For more information about the innovation camps and developed ideas, please check the blog at Blogspot (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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