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Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter here LATEST THINKING FROM THE NORDIC THINK TANK This is Demos Helsinki’s bulletin on the most curious ideas shaping the future. Permafrost? No worries, the spring is just around the corner! Earlier this year The Economist wrote how Finland, as the euro zone’s only Nordic member, struggles to…
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In what ways does sensor abundance change work and organizations? What are the new opportunities in the hyperconnected business? How does the disruptive innovation theory fit to the development of the hyperconnected society? What are the new ways of value creation in the Internet of Things? How does Internet of…
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Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter here LATEST THINKING FROM THE NORDIC THINK TANK This is Demos Helsinki’s bulletin on the most curious ideas shaping the future. This month we highlight some of Demos Helsinki’s freshest as well as reintroduce few of our most successful cases from ten years of designing urban life….
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Robots are moving beyond factories into care, services, construction and logistics. Robotics Scenarios 2040 sets out four possible futures for Finnish working life and seven jointly agreed recommendations for the government formed after the 2027 parliamentary elections. The project also presents seven claims the partners could not agree on, for politicians and society to debate.
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Nordic public administrations are among Europe’s most digitally advanced. FEPS policy study authored by Demos Helsinki examines three automated systems in Norway, Finland, and Sweden and sets out thirteen recommendations for public organisations and policymakers on governing automation.
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Europe’s need for care is growing and changing, and treating it as a crisis misreads the change. Demos Helsinki’s report, The European Care Contract, frames care as a transition and part of the social contract and asks how the duty to give care could become as universal as the right to receive it.
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🗓️ 17.11.2026
⏰ 10.30.-11.30
📍 Nordic Pavilion @ COP31 Blue Zone – Antalya, Turkey
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🗓️ 14.11.2026
⏰ 15.30.-17.00
📍 Nordic Pavilion @ COP31 Blue Zone – Antalya, Turkey
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What does a stronger Europe actually require? Demos Helsinki’s comments on the State of the Union.
September 18, 2026
Drawing on three EU-funded research projects, we examine the tensions behind von der Leyen’s State of the Union address. Technological sovereignty risks deepening the dependencies it aims to reduce; climate resilience requires funding architecture that lets mitigation and adaptation reinforce each other; and Europe’s strength cannot be measured by economic indicators alone. A stronger Europe, we argue, depends less on ambition than on governance capable of delivering it.
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The next frontier for circularity is governance
September 17, 2026
For cross-cutting policy issues, like the transition to circularity, Demos Helsinki has developed a model that works: beating uncertainty through action, empowering relevant stakeholders with autonomy in problem solving, building a shared coordination structure, and adapting through learning what works. The model has been proven to move the circularity agenda forward, despite its complexity and fluctuating political significance.
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Governing with cities: Europe’s overlooked governance infrastructure
July 21, 2026
The Cities Mission functioned as a natural experiment that revealed an overlooked property of European governance: cities do not merely implement policy more effectively; they generate governing capacity and governance knowledge that Europe should intentionally incorporate into policy design through a revised multilevel governance architecture.
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