MDI gave hints to Norway

MDI made a quick visit to the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development (KRD) in Norway. KRD has launched a programme for the development of small and mid-sized city regions. The Finnish experiences and practical knowledge on the Regional Centre Programme, COCO-programme and the Centre of Expertise programme as well as new openings (Innovative Cities, growth agreements) were highly appreciated among the personnel of KRD. The Ministry has an interesting concept of lunch lectures: visiting or in-house experts give presentations on topical issues while the personnel enjoy light lunch.

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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