Front page News News How does Helsinki compare with other cities in the Northern Europe? How does Helsinki compare with other cities in the Northern Europe? 3.10.2017 Helsinki metropolitan area has fallen behind its competitors in terms of economic performance and population growth in the Baltic Sea region during the current decade. In a world of urbanisation, Finland needs a successful metropolis with sustainable growth ecologically, socially and economically. MDI has launched a research project tackling the development of Helsinki metropolitan area based on statistics on peer cities. The objective for the research is to identify the most anxious pain spots and bottlenecks in the development of Helsinki. The research also outlines the critical success factors of Helsinki and as an outcome, designs an urban policy action plan providing needs and tasks to both the government and stakeholders in the metropolitan area. Results are expected in the beginning of December. The research is a new episode in MDI’s series of urban policy projects. Previous episodes discussed themes “Does our country have patience to urbanise?” 2015, “Urban construction to boost Finnish economy” 2016 and “Flourishing of small and medium-sized cities” 2017. For more information, please contact Development Director Janne Antikainen, janne.antikainen@mdi.fi, +358 40 764 1829. Share to Share to: facebook Share to: linkedin Share to: twitter
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
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
