MDI Academy 2022 kicked off with an Innovation Bootcamp

MDI Academy 2022 kicked off in early February with an Innovation Bootcamp co-organised by MDI, Crazy Town and Urban Mill. MDI Academy is an education package for regional developers. It consists of four different modules that highlight various data-based approaches, examples and good practices from different regional levels in the context of addressing current topics. The 24h bootcamp focused on entrepreneurial communities and new ways of working. 

Next the students will take a deep dive into data-led development and tools and be introduced to local examples of vitality and civic participation in the Southern Ostrobothnia region. At the end of October there will be a graduation ceremony. The aim of the MDI Academy is to network developers and civil servants working within regional 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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