Front page News News MDI takes part in designing vision and road map for arctic excellence in Finland MDI takes part in designing vision and road map for arctic excellence in Finland 26.10.2012 Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation – has launched a strategic opening for mapping out the arctic operation environment and its possibilities in Finland. The objective is to design a vision and a road map for the concrete activities for the development and utilisation of arctic excellence. The project focuses on analysing the sectors of arctic excellence in Finland and it seeks to point out the areas where both research excellence and businesses are interlinked to form a harmonic and competitive value chain. MDI takes part in the work as a subcontractor to the University of Oulu (SMARTIC – Roadmap to a smart Arctic specialization) and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (ArctiComp, road map for arctic excellence – strategic openings of Finland). The project is due in 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
