Cultural environment as a resource in the new regions

Management of the cultural environmental issues will change drastically due to regional reform in the following years. The current managing bodies are ELY centres, regional councils, municipalities and museums. In 2019 the ELY centres and regional councils will quit their actions. Ministry of the Environment has commissioned MDI to study the impacts of regional reform for the cultural environment issues, strengthen the implementation and regional development integration of the Cultural Environment Strategy.

The study is divided into three phases: The first phase maps the preparation of the cultural environmental issues in different regions, the second spreads best practices in managing the cultural environmental issues and the third phase reports the results. The work is due in Spring 2018.

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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