Vitality programme for Forssa region

Forssa region includes the city of Forssa and the municipalities of Tammela, Jokioinen, Humppila and Ypäjä. Region is located next to the city of Hämeenlinna, in the middle of Finnish growth triangle Helsinki-Tampere-Turku. Municipalities have jointly decided to boost the vitality in the region and to design a vitality programme to further guide the work. MDI has been appointed to design and run the process by collecting thoughts by an online survey, interviews, and a set of workshops. Analysis of the current situation as well as expertise profile in the region will be completed by the end of 2017, and the actual vitality programme is due in the summer 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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