Joint Government Research Projects Match Perfectly with MDI’s Profile

MDI has three core areas 1) cities, 2) rural areas and 3) renewing regions and municipalities. Government of Finland coordinates joint analysis, assessment and research activities, which generate information that support decision-making, working practices and management by knowledge. MDI was very successful in the spring 2016 round, as we are currently involved in three projects, which match perfectly with our profile. Firstly, urban issues are linked to the definition and alignment of the functional urban areas and development zones in Finland. We co-operate in this ToKaSu project with the Finnish Environment Institute. Secondly, the development of services in rural areas utilising digitalisation and experiments are investigated in DIPA project together with Spatia at the University of Eastern Finland, the Finnish Environment Institute and the University of Vaasa. Thirdly, the effectiveness of the regional system, customer-orientation and cost-effectiveness of regional administration reform is analysed in VAAKA project. The study covers in particular the ELY Centres and Employment and Economic Development offices. The project involves Tempo Economics Ltd and Melkior Ltd. All the studies will be completed in 2017, but MDI will spread information for use along the way whenever it is possible.

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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,…

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