Ten ways to strengthen Kouvola’s vitality

MDI carried out a strategy sparring process for the city of Kouvola. The aim was to find ways to strengthen the city’s vitality.

The work begun in December 2015 with a workshop. Peer-development method was used when Kouvola’s group visited Seinäjoki and met the city’s management group. The results of the work were presented at the final seminar in April. The thoughts of vitality were discussed in small-groups and council seminar was held in April.

The findings of the project were summarized in the final report (in Finnish).

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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