MDI Launches Development of Railway Corridor in Lahti Region

The railway corridor in Lahti region has been pointed out as one of the most important investment targets in the Growth Pact and in the Innovative Cities programme (INKA) of Lahti region. The corridor between the city of Lahti and the municipality of Nastola forms a belt-like urban area, which is to be developed as a whole from the perspective of housing, entrepreneurship, mobility and construction. MDI will conduct two intensive workshops, which will give a launch for drawing road map for the future of the corridor. MDI implements the process in cooperation with Professor Ari Hynynen from Tampere University of Technology, School of Architecture and Head of Research Jari Kolehmainen from the University of Tampere, School of Management. The work is ordered by Lahti Region Development LADEC Ltd.

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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