MDI to evaluate Interreg Nord and Botnia Atlantica

MDI takes part in a Nordic consortium that has been appointed to carry out the evaluation of Interreg Nord and Interreg Bothnia Atlantica programmes. The evaluation consortium is lead by Kontigo from Sweden. Alongside MDI, also Samfunnsøkonomisk analyse from Norway takes part in the evaluation. The programme evaluation will be carried out for the most part during 2018.

Interreg V A Nord is an EU-program supporting cross-border cooperation in order to strengthen the economic and social development. Areas included in the program are north Norway, north Finland, north Sweden and Sápmi (which spreads over all three countries). The programme area covers the regions of Lapland, Oulu region and Central Ostrobothnia in Finland.

Botnia-Atlantica is an EU-programme financing cross-border cooperation projects in Sweden, Finland and Norway. The programme is a part of European Territorial Cooperation, even called Interreg, where regions are developed through joint efforts across national borders. The programme area covers the regions of South Ostrobothnia, Central Ostrobothnia and Ostrobothnia in Finland.

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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