Autumn brings back familiar faces

In August-September, we were happy to welcome some familiar faces back into the office when experts Benjamin Heikkinen, Satu Tolonen and Niklas Aro returned to the team.

Benjamin Heikkinen’s work includes a comprehensive selection of e.g. various studies and evaluations related to rural development and project funding. Satu Tolonen will continue to develop and maintain information services, complementing our information expertise while Niklas Aro is focused on work related to migration and demographic development, as well as the processing of various data sets.

In the near future, we will also be able to publish recruitment news for new MDI-employees, as today the search ends for the positions of a data analyst and sales-minded municipal consultant.

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.

Read more MDI leads the co-creative process of developing, piloting and sharing practices for wellbeing in Sustainable Cities