MDI conducts impact evaluation of scheduled interviews for the unemployed

Since the beginning of 2017, all the unemployed job-seekers have been interviewed every three months by the state employment services. This is one of the activities in Prime Minister Sipilä’s governmental programme to improve employment situation and support employment. MDI leads a research consortium that has been appointed to conduct an impact evaluation of the scheduled interviews for the unemployed. The evaluation seeks to provide research-based evidence to further improve the functionality and competitiveness of employment services and also to strengthen the supply of work. The evaluation is carried out as a part of Government’s Analysis, Assessment and Research activities and results are expected by the end of 2018. MDI co-operates in the evaluation with TK-Eval, Melkior, Arnkil Dialogues and Mikko Kesä.

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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