Front page News News MDI responsible for Urban Development Day at Citizen*ship Forum MDI responsible for Urban Development Day at Citizen*ship Forum 12.5.2017 Urban Development Forum Citizen*ship was held in the City of Kotka on 11–12 May 2017. Forum brought together a three-digit number of experts from the field of urban development around Finland. The forum discussed ideas and suggestions for action on national urban policy, especially for the development of development zones, as well as practical practical tips for urban developers. In the first day, MDI was partly responsible for the chairing the event and fully responsible for the second day, where urban developers were seeking solutions to most challenging issues of urban development in six themes. Particular focus was on how citizens participate in city development and how the city is transformed into a platform for different development actions. Examples of urban development in Finland and around the world encouraged new ways of working. The international forum was conceived, developed and implemented in co-operation with MDI, the City of Kotka, Ministry of Employment and the Economy and the Regional Development Company Cursor. Material (partly in English): www.kotka.fi/citizenship Share to Share to: facebook Share to: linkedin Share to: twitter
A sustainable green transition is achieved by investing in the diversity of RDI activities – the AGDA project continues to work on this theme News 12.1.2023 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. Read more A sustainable green transition is achieved by investing in the diversity of RDI activities – the AGDA project continues to work on this theme
MDI leads the co-creative process of developing, piloting and sharing practices for wellbeing in Sustainable Cities News 12.10.2022 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
A new project funded by the Ministry of Agriculture will explore multi-locality from the point of view of companies and their employers: is place-independence becoming the future norm of successful companies? News 4.10.2022 Although remote working and place-independent work have already been examined extensively from both the public administration implications and individual perspectives,… Read more A new project funded by the Ministry of Agriculture will explore multi-locality from the point of view of companies and their employers: is place-independence becoming the future norm of successful companies?
