Doing an internship by working from home

Last week, we welcomed our new trainee Maria Jussila, who, given the current ‘exceptional circumstances’ must now complete her internship from home.

“It feels that I got along nicely with my colleagues, despite working remotely. The work has gone well remotely. Work requires concentration and long periods of uninterrupted time, so making it from home is the best option for this”, says Maria. The orientation has been done online while co-workers are met daily during ‘virtual coffee’ sessions.

Maria is a double-degree student with four years of social work studies and two years of administrative science studies behind her. She is interested in the structures and development of social and health care and broadly also in the future responsibilities of the municipalities. During her internship, she will mainly work on the VN TEAS project which examines the effects of the funding responsibility for basic income on the activities of the municipalities.

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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A new project funded by the Ministry of Agriculture will explore multi-locality from the point of view of companies and their employers: is place-independence becoming the future norm of successful companies?

Although remote working and place-independent work have already been examined extensively from both the public administration implications and individual perspectives,…

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