Front page News News Vigour to Counties Vigour to Counties 21.4.2017 Prime Minister Sipilä’s Government Programme aims at pushing Finland on a path of sustainable growth and improved employment. As a significant part of employment objective in the Government Programme, regional experiments related to labour and business services will be launched during 2017 and 2018. The experiments the organisation of public labour and business services will be appointed to a single municipality or municipalities forming a co-operative region. A total of nine (9) regions have been selected to the experiment, three of which are counties and six municipalities or their co-operative regions. The ongoing regional government reform has held up the launch of regional experiments. At the same time, the reform will totally reshape the public labour and business services. The organisation of growth services will be appointed to counties, and the production will be based on market mechanism and private services. Entrepreneurship and Employment to counties project (in Finnish YTYÄ, which translates to vigour) aims at evaluating the regional experiments related to labour and business services and it provides the regions with support and sparring to the successful implementation of experiments. MDI takes part in YTYÄ project in a consortium lead by Demos Helsinki. Third consortium member is Common Dialogues. MDI is responsible for the evaluation of the impact of experiments, evaluation of experimented concepts and their applicability as well as providing regions with peer support and sparring. The project is one of Government’s analysis, assessment and research activities, and it will be completed by the end of 2018. 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?
