Front page News News Going strong into the new year! Going strong into the new year! 8.1.2021 MDI’s team of experts and advisors were strengthened at the turn of the year with new talents. Iina Tunkkari and Sebastian Hovi started out as experts while Timo Widbom, a long-standing geospatial and information service professional, joined our advisory team. Iina holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Tampere, majoring in municipal communications. Sebastian is a human geographer who is deeply familiar with the processes of Regional Council interest-promotion as well as with those associated with the fields of regional development and planning more generally. Timo brings with him almost thirty years of experience in spatial information systems and their use in information management and in support of decision making. He works as an information service expert in the city of Pori and is currently preparing his dissertation in the doctoral programme in technical and economic information management at the University of Tampere, in the Pori unit. Get to know the new MDI-members and our expertise in more detail at https://www.mdi.fi/en/us/. Share to Share to: facebook Share to: linkedin Share to: twitter
Station areas are organic and locally driven entities News 30.11.2023 Experts from MDI and FCG have been exploring models for the development of station areas, op-portunities for EU funding and ways to projectise the development work of different types of station areas during the autumn. Read more Station areas are organic and locally driven entities
Multi-functional development of station areas News 28.11.2023 In the early autumn period, MDI and FCG worked on the development of the Asemanseutu project which is part of the project package – Vitality for Urban Regions. The work undertaken clarified the basic models for the multi-functional development of station areas, as well as providing recommendations for their development and financing. Read more Multi-functional development of station areas
Addressing the Gender and Diversity Paradoxes in Innovation — Towards a More Inclusive Policy Design News 5.4.2023 Kaisa Lähteenmäki-Smith Kirsi Siltanen Laura Väliniemi Implicit norms and structural disadvantages derive from previous innovation policies and therefore policies need to be redesigned. Read more Addressing the Gender and Diversity Paradoxes in Innovation — Towards a More Inclusive Policy Design