Front page News News Extensive situational picture of regional development 2020 updated – No major changes in the rankings Extensive situational picture of regional development 2020 updated – No major changes in the rankings 23.3.2021 MDI has updated the Index of Regional Development which collates municipal development in the light of the latest statistics and compares employment, attractiveness, business, education, wellbeing and economic development with 17 statistical variables in the municipalities. Each municipality in Mainland Finland has its own index number. Compared to the index in 2019, the top of the Regional Development index has remained unchanged. The top six are still Espoo, Sipoo, Pirkkala, Tuusula, Vantaa and Helsinki. Among these six, Pirkkala has however improved its ranking. Municipalities in the Helsinki, Tampere and Turku regions remain over-represented. The order of the top 10 has remained unchanged in cities with more than 100 000 inhabitants. In the group below however both Joensuu and Salo have risen in the rankings. All in all, the municipalities with the biggest rise and scores can be found among the smaller and sparsely populated municipalities. The relative development of scores has been strongest in several municipalities in Eastern and Northern Finland. The Index of Regional Development and the statistics examined do not yet however include the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of scores, as for several variables the latest data published in 2020 and early 2021 do not yet cover 2020. Share to Share to: facebook Share to: linkedin Share to: twitter
A sustainable green transition is achieved by investing in the diversity of RDI activities – the AGDA project continues to work on this theme News 12.1.2023 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. Read more A sustainable green transition is achieved by investing in the diversity of RDI activities – the AGDA project continues to work on this theme
MDI leads the co-creative process of developing, piloting and sharing practices for wellbeing in Sustainable Cities News 12.10.2022 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
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? News 4.10.2022 Although remote working and place-independent work have already been examined extensively from both the public administration implications and individual perspectives,… Read more 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?
