The Regions4Climate project aims to collaboratively develop and demonstrate a socially just transition to climate resilience for European regions. Increasingly frequent extreme weather conditions due to climate change, concomitant with unsustainable historical resource use and management practices, create the perfect storm — threatening our livelihoods, wellbeing, and environment. A…
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REPAIR and renewal of algorithmic systems
April 7, 2023
What does the rapid expansion of AI mean for society? Driven by pressures to do more with shrinking resources, public sector authorities are deploying and planning to deploy automated service delivery. The pursuit of efficiency, combined with the lack of well-defined operational models and insufficient regulatory oversight, creates pressure towards…
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Regions4Climate — just transition to climate resilience in European regions
April 6, 2023
The Regions4Climate project aims to collaboratively develop and demonstrate a socially just transition to climate resilience for European regions. Increasingly frequent extreme weather conditions due to climate change, concomitant with unsustainable historical resource use and management practices, create the perfect storm — threatening our livelihoods, wellbeing, and environment. A…
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Building a better world through alternative protein sources
March 24, 2023
The EU Horizon-funded LIKE-A-PRO project aims to promote the transition to sustainable and healthy diets by shifting promising alternative proteins and products from niche to mainstream — making them more available, accessible, and acceptable to all population groups. LIKE-A-PRO has set out to: Understand what determines consumer behaviour and…
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Solving clusters of challenges in sustainable city transition
March 10, 2023
The Sustainable City programme, coordinated by Finland’s Ministry of the Environment, convenes a group of motivated cities and municipalities to join a one-year problem-solving journey to address the numerous interrelated challenges that slow down sustainable city transition. The challenges are related to urban planning that considers sustainability goals and prosperous…
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Exploring the future of Sub-Saharan agriculture
March 8, 2023
In late 2022, Demos Helsinki facilitated a series of workshops to enable national agri-food organisations in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Tanzania to define new opportunities and risks by looking at long-term changes in agriculture. The Beyond Farming Collective — a 3-year programme led by Bopinc — aims to establish a…
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CommuniCity: Including marginalised communities in co-creation processes
February 15, 2023
CommuniCity is a 3-year project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Framework Programme, building citizen-centred tech solutions focused on urban and societal challenges. Launching 100 pilots in Helsinki, Amsterdam, and Porto, the project will address the needs of cities and marginalised communities in these areas through co-creation and co-learning…
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TANDEM: Citizens envisioning a just transition
January 10, 2023
What determines a just transition to low-carbon futures? In July 2021, the European Commission launched the ‘Fit for 55’ climate policy package, designed to bring many of the EU policies up to speed to achieve a 55% reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Recognising that these technical mitigation…
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Anticipatory governance – Demos Helsinki’s work for a resilient and transformative future
November 30, 2022
The great crises of our time have one thing in common: they reveal our limitations in navigating uncertainties and the shifting premises of our world. Public administrations, in particular, are increasingly expected to deal with this challenge. Indeed, uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity are critical features of the environment in which…
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The present and future of sustainability in Finland’s technology industry
November 24, 2022
Survey results show that Finnish technology companies are moving away from “sustainability strategies” and towards sustainable strategies. Technology Industries of Finland has emphasised the importance of corporate social responsibility and sustainability. In the past years, the organisation has incentivised and encouraged socially and environmentally responsible behaviour among its members….
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AI 4.0: Finland as a leader in the twin transition
November 21, 2022
Launched in 2020, The Artificial Intelligence 4.0 programme summarises the areas for development, objectives and measures to help Finland ensure its success in the digital and green transitions. In November 2020, Minister of Economic Affairs Mika Lintilä appointed a steering group led by Jussi Herlin to prepare an action plan…
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Impact of climate change on public finance
November 10, 2022
Demos Helsinki, ETLA and SYKE are collaborating to study the impact of climate change on public finances on a national and regional level in Finland and to build a framework that improves public finance assessment. The public sector plays a key role in tackling climate change as a regulator,…
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FIMO – A framework for a Finnish model of mission-oriented innovation policy
September 19, 2022
How can governments enhance cooperation to find and implement new solutions to complex societal challenges? How do we connect ambitious political goals with private actors’ agendas? How do we enable a long-term approach to budgeting? Demos Helsinki is supporting the Finnish Government in developing its national framework for mission-oriented…
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