Upplands-Väsby seeks urban renewal experiences

The municipality of Upplands-Väsby, located north of Stockholm in Sweden is looking for international inspiration and lessons learned from similar municipalities, where municipality’s profile and imago has been upgraded by renewal of sub-urban areas by architectural or other physical means. In Finland, cases from Central Uusimaa and Vantaa Aviapolis, located North of Helsinki, are analysed in May. MDI submits this quick study to Sweco, Sweden.

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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