MDI studies co-operation structures in the field of welfare and education

Due to ongoing regional reform a new interface will appear between municipalities and self-governing counties. In addition to tasks and responsibilities that are being transferred to counties, new interface is particularly interesting from the point of view of tasks and duties that remain in municipalities. These tasks include promotion of citizen’s welfare and education. MDI will conduct a study with an intensive time frame focusing on co-operation models and structures related to welfare and education sector. The study also seeks to reveal existing know-how and expertise that could be utilised in organising the interface between municipalities and counties. Study is funded as a part of Government’s Analysis, Assessment, and Research Activities and results are due in the end of June 2018. MDI has Spatia (Centre for Regional Research) from the University of Eastern Finland as a partner in the study.

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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