Sari Pitkänen strengthens MDI’s labour policy skills

MDI’s expertise in the fields of labour policy and social impact were strengthened at the beginning of the year when specialist Sari Pitkänen (M.Soc.Sc) joined the team. Sari brings with her twenty years experience in researching and evaluating projects related to employment, education and rehabilitation.

Sari Pitkänen brings extensive experience to the team.

Sari is particularly interested in cross-administrative and multi-professional projects. She will focus her work on projects related to people’s ability to work and function.

Our team has strong expertise in innovation policy, labour policy and the development of working life. With Sari’s expertise, we will strengthen our perspective on wellbeing and participation in particular, says Mikko Valtakari, a leading specialist.

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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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