Darkest Day of the Year Turned out to Be the Brightest for MDI

Yesterday, December 21, we had winter solstice – the shortest and darkest day of the year. Luckily the day turned out to be the brightest of all for MDI. The Prime Minister’s Office in Finland announced the results of the latest call for proposals as research projects in Government’s analysis, assessment and research activities. MDI took part in eight research plans, six of which were awarded with funding. MDI is in charge and leading a consortium in three research projects and takes part in three other as a subconductor. We’ll let you know more about the research projects next year.

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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