Front page News News Jari Kolehmainen joins MDI as Senior Advisor Jari Kolehmainen joins MDI as Senior Advisor 30.1.2018 MDI continues to build a winning team as January transfer window is open. MDI signed a significant reinforcement as D.Sc. (Admin.) Jari Kolehmainen joins the company as a Senior Advisor in the field of regional and urban development. As his day job, Jari works as a research director at the University of Tampere. Jari is well-known as a researcher, developer and trainer with a wide-ranging and sharp-eyed perspective. Jari has nearly 20 years of expertise in the topics of regional innovation activities, economic development and innovation policies, and strategic development of the regions. – We know Jari well from years back and he has witnessed MDI’s journey from the beginning. We are thrilled that our long-term dating evolves towards a more permanent co-operation, MDI’s Managing Director Tommi Ranta says smiling. 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
