Growth Companies’ Employment Program supports business growth and growth opportunities for growth companies and business networks

MDI evaluates the Growth Entrepreneurship Program 2016-2018 for Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland. The aim of the program is to support the growth and competitiveness of growth companies and to prevent skilled labor unemployment. The Growth Companies’ Employment Program also aims to help companies better identify the chances of highly skilled workforce as a competitive factor in their own business. The ongoing evaluation work reviews the impact of the program and assesses how the Growth Employment Program projects in different regions and across the country support the preparation and construction of future growth services. The evaluation will be completed by the end of April 2018.

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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