Finnish higher education and research are facing a changing landscape: work (and therefore universities’ role in relation to it) is changing, competition for the brightest minds has gone global, needed meta and hybrid skills are changing, AI and robotization is opening up new possibilities, and science is becoming more and…
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Nordic Built Cities
October 22, 2017
In collaboration with Nordic Innovation, Demos Helsinki planned and executed Nordic Built Cities -event series. It brought together stakeholders from all Nordic countries to collaborate in making our cities more sustainable and livable. The events served as a support for Nordic Innovation not only to get right stakeholder coalition to…
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Tools for Future Leadership – Innovation Camp
October 21, 2017
Innovation Camp was designed for the Finnish Government’s top-level civil servants as part of the Future Leaders course commissioned by the Ministry of Finance. The camp focused on capacity-building of future leaders in the public sector, and it offered them innovation tools and a space to reflect on 21st Century…
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The Society’s Commitment to Sustainable Development: assessment and development of the commitment tool
October 13, 2017
The society’s commitment to take action for sustainable development is globally unique social innovation. Finnish national commitment to sustainable development is defining central aims for sustainable development reaching to year 2050. Commitment to sustainable development is open, concrete and voluntary way for organizations and individuals to participate into fulfilling the…
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Experimental Frameworks
October 13, 2017
Experimentation has found its way into government and public policy. The brainchild of the polymaths of old whose expertise ranged from philosophy to chemistry and physics, the experimental method has proven itself to be an objective and preeminently effective way to evaluate the consequences of changes or the lack thereof….
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A Vision for Higher Education in 2030
October 11, 2017
Finnish higher education and research are facing a changing landscape: work (and therefore universities’ role in relation to it) is changing, competition for the brightest minds has gone global, needed meta and hybrid skills are changing, AI and robotization is opening up new possibilities, and science is becoming more and…
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Smart Retro: A novel way of developing cities with digital services
September 28, 2017
Many urban areas – buildings, services and urban activities alike – are dilapidating. To tackle this problem, Demos Helsinki, KTH CESC and 12 other Nordic cities, companies and universities came together to start Smart Retro – a 2 year project (2014–2015) on how actors of the built environment can push…
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The Naked Approach: A Nordic perspective to gadget-free hyperconnected environments
September 28, 2017
What are the possibilities in using digitalization and Internet of Things to improve human capabilities and create a more resource smart world? In the hyperconnected society there are more and more connections between people and things. This allows for new ways for people to participate and be capable – and…
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Green Manual for Youth Space
May 26, 2017
By creating new possibilities and capabilities for youth to impact on their own surroundings produces fresh solution to the problems of cities. Manual for youth Space -project created together with young participants from Latvia, Belarus and Finland methods and reasons for cities, schools and youth organisations to work together…
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BEMINE – Towards better city regions
May 25, 2017
Current urban planning in Finland has several problems that hinder it from steering Finnish city-regional development towards a more sustainable future. The strategic research project BEMINE (Beyond MALPE-coordination: Integrative Envisioning) aims to enhance the integrative capacities for urban planning in order to develop not only new tools and better evidence…
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Y-Lab Energy Pilot
May 4, 2017
In Finland great amount of buildings have been built in the 1960’s and 1970. Improving their energy efficiency is a significant challenge on the way to resource-smart society Y-lab Energy Pilot is an experiment which aimed to save energy usage of district heating system. The experiment was carried out in cooperation…
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Kultu2030 – the Future of Sustainable Consumption and Production Policies
May 4, 2017
Energy and climate strategy, roadmap to a circular economy, Agenda2030. What is the role of sustainable consumption and production within these strategies? Do sustainable consumption and production need a strategy of their own? Which aspects should be included? To answer these questions, Ministry of the Environment has ordered a research…
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Puoliksi tehty – Youth anticipations of climate change
May 2, 2017
In 2016-2017 we carried out an exploratory empirical research project, where the connection between today’s actions motivated by climate change (future) were analyzed among Finnish youth. As a result a model of climate change anticipation was created.
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