MDI carried out a vitality analysis of Rovaniemi

In the autumn and winter of 2019–2020, the city of Rovaniemi conducted two surveys of residents related to the renewal of the city’s brand. Residents came up with a lot of ideas in the open answers section. These were also intended to be used in the update of the urban strategy.

MDI assisted in structuring, analysing and further processing these responses. The responses were analysed in accordance with the main themes of the urban strategy, i.e. living environment, services and livelihoods. Through the responses, the residents’ perspectives on the area’s attractions and attractiveness to both residents and businesses were highlighted, as well as more specific wishes related to the residents’ well-being. In addition, based on the responses, development recommendations for Rovaniemi were compiled.

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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