Growth services raise interest among private service providers and associations

MDI carried out a study with NHG Consulting Ltd of upcoming growth service markets for the Ministry of Employment and the Economy. As a part of the health, social services and regional government reform a reform on growth services gathers public employment services and business promotion services and opens them up for private service providers.

The study focused on the current state of service businesses and about private service providers’ abilities to provide new service concepts.

The study was conducted as a survey complemented by qualitative methods and interviews. The enquiry was carried out in August 2018 and the whole study was finished in October 2018.
The whole study can be found (in Finnish) here.

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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