Impact of Joensuu Regional Development Company analysed by MDI

The Joensuu region in eastern Finland has developed, according to major regional development indicators, rather well in 21st century, despite of structural changes both in private and public sector. The capability of reacting quickly to challenges has been acknowledged. MDI will analyse the impact of Joensuu Regional Development Company JOSEK Ltd. to regional development in the past decade. Information is gathered in numerous ways, and also local “jury” is gathered to evaluate the impact. Work will be finalised in spring 2014. 

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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