Going strong into the new year!

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/.

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,…

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?