Kaisa Lähteenmäki-Smith joins MDI

MDI will get a strong addition to its team when Kaisa Lähteenmäki-Smith moves from the Prime Minister’s Office to MDI from the beginning of February 2019. Kaisa defended her doctoral thesis about the change in European administrative structures, and in recent years she has been developing experimental Finland and reforming state administration. For the past year, Kaisa has been in Sitra developing a phenomenal state administration and the Reformers training program.

Kaisa herself commented on the transfer: “The main story of the transition to me is to make phenomenal governance and a human-oriented reform of society at local and regional level. This includes, in addition to cross-industry and systemic perspectives, vitality, knowledge management, experimental culture and inclusion. Life happens in municipalities and local communities. ”

Kaisa will come to MDI in particular to develop MDI’s knowledge management and to lead and coordinate demanding research projects. Her location will be the Helsinki office in the Autotalo, where Kaisa will be a key player. Kaisa has extensive networks both domestically and internationally, which are naturally utilized in social development.

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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