Front page News News Kymenlaakso’s smart specialisation strategy and scenarios have been updated Kymenlaakso’s smart specialisation strategy and scenarios have been updated 16.2.2021 MDI carried out the Smart Specialisation Strategy 2.0 and the Kymenlaakso 2040 Scenario Update for the Regional Council of Kymenlaakso. Smart specialisation is a strategic approach for developing and reforming business and responding to future skills requirements in selected key areas. The goal of smart specialisation is a competitive, attractive and vibrant Kymenlaakso. The top choices in the strategy for the period 2021–2025 are: Smart and green logistics Renewable materials and energy Data economy, cyber security and gaming The smart specialisation strategy was updated in extensive collaboration with stakeholders and will be implemented in 2021. In addition, a development programme, planned in the context of the strategy update, will also be carried out. The update of the Kymenlaakso scenarios is based on the 2019 scenario report. In particular, the update took into account the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the regional operating environment. In connection with the update work, various weak as well as strong signals emerging during 2020 were identified. The update of the scenarios made extensive use of various expert assessments of the effects of the pandemic, as well as future and scenario reviews published after spring 2020. In addition, the need for updates related to the scenarios and preparedness for them was identified in a series of three workshops held in autumn 2020, attended by a wide range of actors from Kymenlaakso. Read more (in Finnish) Strategy Scenarios scenarios smartspecialisation strategy 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
