Front page News News Update to Regional Development Plan of Lapland Update to Regional Development Plan of Lapland 24.6.2013 MDI assists the Regional Council of Lapland in updating the regional development plan outlining the desirable development and strategy for the year 2040. The update looks at the impact of grand challenges and megatrends on the chosen vision and development guidelines. The update especially focuses on the competitiveness of local businesses, the regional expertise areas, and the service structure and location of welfare services. According to MDI, becoming or staying as a developing region requires the region both resources and the ability to renew. MDI takes part in the whole process from setting the targets to the final report. The work is due in February 2014. Share to Share to: facebook Share to: linkedin Share to: twitter
Addressing the Gender and Diversity Paradoxes in Innovation — Towards a More Inclusive Policy Design News 5.4.2023 Kaisa Lähteenmäki-Smith Kirsi Siltanen Laura Väliniemi Implicit norms and structural disadvantages derive from previous innovation policies and therefore policies need to be redesigned. Read more Addressing the Gender and Diversity Paradoxes in Innovation — Towards a More Inclusive Policy Design
A sustainable green transition is achieved by investing in the diversity of RDI activities – the AGDA project continues to work on this theme News 12.1.2023 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. Read more A sustainable green transition is achieved by investing in the diversity of RDI activities – the AGDA project continues to work on this theme
MDI leads the co-creative process of developing, piloting and sharing practices for wellbeing in Sustainable Cities News 12.10.2022 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. Read more MDI leads the co-creative process of developing, piloting and sharing practices for wellbeing in Sustainable Cities
