MDI evaluates the effectiveness and impacts of state subsidies in film production

MDI has launched an evaluation research in the end of 2017 by the order of Ministry of Education and Culture. The evaluation focuses on finding out the effectiveness and impacts of state subsidies directed to national film production and independent TV production. The evaluation clarifies the overall understanding of the economic status of film industry in Finland. State subsidies play an essential role in the total funding in the film production. In the state budget for 2017, a total of 25 M€ was reserved to support national film industry. The evaluation results are due in mid-April 2018.

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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