MDI published the results of the national municipality survey

Municipalities regard the future development prospects as positive despite of a credibility gap between the officials and the regional government, health and social services reform weakening the development prospects

In October 2017, MDI conducted for the third time a national municipality survey, with which opinions were collected from the policy-makers and senior officials of municipalities regarding their views of future municipalities. All officials, councillors and board members of the municipalities (295 total) of Mainland Finland were targeted by the municipality survey. The survey was sent to a total of 10 871 people, from which 2 890 responded regarding 289 municipalities. Response rate was 26.6%.

> Read the summary of the results and more infromation about the survey

 

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.

Read more MDI leads the co-creative process of developing, piloting and sharing practices for wellbeing in Sustainable Cities