Kestävä kaupunki -haastekimput / Hyvinvointi sosiaalisesti kestävässä kaupungissa

The Challenge Bundle project is part of the Sustainable Cities programme. The main goal of the challenge work is to produce peer learning, new ways of doing things and concrete development measures. The work is organised around co-creation sessions, producing information and solutions for the challenges that link the common management and practice of cities. Built on peer learning, encouraging and experimenting with new ways of doing things, it seeks to produce concrete development actions for the local communities involved. In the context of the work, the team listens to and provides opportunities for action and avenues of influence for networks and actors relevant to the topic. Close cooperation is encouraged and practical interaction is supported in order to utilise the information collected in various projects, enabling learning, scaling and impact. In the context of the working plan, the team specifically invests in solving cross-cutting challenges that combine the need to address sustainability themes and strengthen cooperation both between municipalities and within them, as well as between cities and the various state-level organisations.There are initially five municipalities in the core team involved in the well-being challenges, namely Imatra, Jyväskylä, Karkkila, Kuopio and Lahti. Parallel to the well-being challenges there is a similar initiative and co-creation process taking place on sustainable urban planning. The cities of Espoo, Helsinki, Karkkila, Kemi, Oulu and Turku are involved in that project.The two parallel projects are implemented by a consortium, where MDI and Demos Helsinki are the project leaders (MDI in the well-being theme, Demos in urban planning), the well-being challenges are supported by additional expert work from a team at the National Institute of Health, this support is coordinated by Paula Saikkonen at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).