MDI supports the preparation of the Helsinki integration programme

In the autumn, MDI will support the preparatory work for the City of Helsinki’s integration programme (2021–2025). The Integration Act regulates the tasks of municipalities, one of which is to draw up an integration programme. Municipal integration programmes aim to promote the integration of immigrants and strengthen cross-sectoral cooperation.

The City of Helsinki’s ongoing integration programme was last created for the period 2017–2021. The goal of integration programmes is to enable Helsinki residents with a foreign background to better access positions that match their skills, education and abilities.

The preparatory work, which starts now, will assess the ongoing programme and provide guidelines for the programme for the new term which will be drawn up in broad cooperation between the various sectors and stakeholders. Preparatory work for the programme will be carried out through the analysis of documented material, individual interviews, surveys, and hearings as well as various network meetings.

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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