ELSA Testbed got alternative models for organising activities

MDI developed the management model of ELSA Testbed, the innovation and testing environment for development of social and health care in South Karelia.

ELSA Testbed offers companies a real-life platform to test and pilot product and services supporting independent living (and ageing) in place. ELSA Testbed’s services are provided in cooperation by Eksote, LUT and LAB.

In the assignment, MDI interviewed the employees of the project and its stakeholders. Moreover, MDI analysed management models for similar experimental platforms, testbeds, living labs and innovation platforms. The result of the work is a few alternative models for organising ELSA Testbed’s operations in a targeted and sustainable manner.

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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