28.4.2014 MDI workshopped Education department of the City of Helsinki

Education questions in Helsinki, especially size and number of schools, are in headlines of newspapers almost every day. In times like this it is crucial to focus on big picture: what is the direction for development in the education, and what are the steps the City of Helsinki will take in the coming three and ten years. What are the most important phenomena in the education field and what happens in surroundings, how does City react and proact? MDI held a workshop for leading politicians and civil servants in the end of April 2014. Workshop launched a strategy process that will take place in Education department in becoming years. 

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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A new project funded by the Ministry of Agriculture will explore multi-locality from the point of view of companies and their employers: is place-independence becoming the future norm of successful companies?

Although remote working and place-independent work have already been examined extensively from both the public administration implications and individual perspectives,…

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