Leader groups are preparing a strategy for the next programming period

MDI supports the Leader groups in Suupohja, Päijät-Häme and Pohjois-Kymenlaakso in their strategy work for the next programming period (2021–2027). The key issues in planning the local development strategy for the new programming period are: what the Leader group should fund and develop in the forthcoming programming period and what role the Leader group will play as a local and regional developer.

The sparring of strategy work is tailored to the needs of each Leader group, including e.g. preparing descriptions of the current state of the regions, planning the strategy process together with the group, mapping the needs of the region from stakeholders and group governments, facilitating participatory workshops, interactive SWOT analyses and ensuring the coherence of the strategy.

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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