Pieksämäki today: Will Small Towns Remain on the Map in Finland?

Today, Design Director Janne Antikainen popped up in the City of Pieksämäki and wondered together with regional business advisors whether small towns will remain on the map of Finland or not. Playoff between cities is tightening – and all the cities will not, unfortunately, stay on the map in the future. Conservative midway is now the most risky way, remaining in the map requires spiky and rough profiles. All MDI experts are more than willing to wander round in Finland (and rest of the world) to inform, inspire and interpret regional development trends together with regional developers.

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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