Kristiina Helenius and Natalia Rincon to join MDI’s Advisor Team, Minna Utriainen as a partner

MDI’s influence, international business environment and urban planning knowledge will be strengthened in the summer. We are delighted to announce that M.Sc. Kristiina Helenius and architect Natalia Rincon are involved in the advisor team.

Kristiina has worked internationally for twenty years. As a Director of the Nordic West Office in the United States, she wants to make sure that Nordic voice is heard in the Super Capital. She works as an international business environment and the US advisor in MDI. Natalia is an architect and IT engineer who is excited about citizen participation, urban planning and smart cities. She has established and is the Managing Director of CHAOS Architects and writing her work in the field of Urban Planning in her doctoral thesis at Aalto University. In MDI, she acts as an advisor for urban politics.

We also have the pleasure to announce a proven partnership with Minna Utriainen and Nitroid xD Oy. Minna Utriainen is a brilliant and brave strategic communications expert.

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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