Front page News News 3rd Road Map for Urban Policy: Small Town Wins With its Originality 3rd Road Map for Urban Policy: Small Town Wins With its Originality 9.5.2017 Small and medium-sized cities succeed by identifying their own unique opportunities of megatrends and by implementing their own future – as the guarantee of traditional state-driven regional policy has expired. This is the main point in the 3rd Roadmap for Urban Policy, which was published on 9 May in the City of Riihimäki. Omnivorousness and uniqueness are keys to a small town’s success. Opportunities can be found among others in digitalization, robotization, circular economy and tourism. Conducting and copying mainstream rarely leads to heyday. The good price-quality ratio of housing and living rises to be the small town’s key competitiveness factor. Engaging citizens in the definition of development factors can be revolutionary. Residents can, with their own enthusiasm, help to find solutions and create an atmosphere that makes the place boldly unique. MDI conducted the 3rd Road Map together with The Confederation of Finnish Construction Industries RT, Finnish Construction Trade Union, The Building Information Foundation RTS, Hypo Bank, The Finnish Association of Consulting Firms SKOL and five cities, namely the cities of Heinola, Järvenpää, Kokkola, Riihimäki / Regional Council of Häme and Uusikaupunki as well as bunch of urbanisation experts. Press release May 9, 2017: Small cities succeed with originality (in Finnish only) The Blossoming of Small and Medium-sized Cities – Roadmap for Urban Policy III (in Finnish only) Share to Share to: facebook Share to: linkedin Share to: twitter
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
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? News 4.10.2022 Although remote working and place-independent work have already been examined extensively from both the public administration implications and individual perspectives,… Read more 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?
