Research on the functionality and impacts of work try-out

Work try-out is service to support the employment of unemployed customers of Public employment and business services (i.e. TE Services). A total of 40 000 customers participate in the service annually. The person in the work try-out receives unemployment benefit or basic daily allowance and expense allowance. Therefore, the person in the work try-out is free of charge to the employer. The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment has appointed MDI to carry out a research focusing on analysing the functionality of the work try-out concept as a whole, considering the benefits and opportunities for the individuals and for the organiser of the try-out. MDI works in co-operation with Melkior Ltd, and the research is due by the end of 2018.

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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