Publications
Reports, analysis and policy recommendations for brave leaders and communities.
The report provides insights into how the dominant ways of thinking about growth have taken shape and become entrenched: What has changed over the decades? And what might the future look like? Finnish discourse is also placed in the broader context of international societal and scientific debates, as well as global shifts in the operating environment.
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The European Democracy Shield is a timely and commendable initiative aimed at addressing the EU’s growing democratic challenges. However, it would benefit from a more human-centered approach focusing on citizen participation, civil society engagement, and more nuanced policies on digital regulation.
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The answer isn’t less democracy, but more. New participatory and deliberative processes aimed at involving citizens in decision-making are gaining traction across Europe, but their long-term success depends on how well they are embedded into the public administration and society.
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How can countries strengthen their capacity for long-term governance and ensure that future generations are taken into account in decision-making? In this white paper, we highlight ways to promote anticipatory governance based on the views of key Finnish stakeholders. By translating the Finnish experience into a broader context, we aim to provide universally applicable strategies for advancing long-term governance and promoting intergenerational justice.
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Experimentalism is a ‘hidden third option’ that overcomes pre-existing dichotomies and can update the governance of R&I funding while steering it towards societal transformation.
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What are the most appropriate institutional arrangements for effective governance? How can governance systems effectively operate across different levels, such as local, regional, national, and supranational? How can governments improve their capacity to evaluate policies, learn from successes and failures, and adapt to changing circumstances? By transforming the civil service, we can answer these questions.
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In this discussion paper, written together with Marcos Bonturi, former director of Public Governance at the OECD, Demos Helsinki shares the recent learnings in the field of public governance, identified four characteristics that describe a desirable future government, and presents inspirational governance innovation -cases from Finland, Brazil, Colombia and Serbia.
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The Nordic Digital Promise aims to inspire politicians, officials, entrepreneurs and a broad range of people to see the social opportunities that these new technologies offer – and make our way to the future that can be described as digital paradise.
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The future of our built environment is built today. 70% of the existing building stock will still exist in 2050 (Kiinteistölehti, 2017). We are now defining the opportunities and limitations of how the future homes will allow us to participate actively, decrease emissions and create life-improving services. Keeping this in…
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From the 80s to the present day, rather big changes have taken place in Finland’s occupational structure. The workers of 2017 represent a different group than a couple of decades ago. Part of the progression is slower and part of it is uneven, because the working population replaces itself over…
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In Refugees for co-creative cities, we wanted to re-think the accommodation of refugees in Europe. We challenge the concept of the reception centre by new forms of accommodation, which are co-created by refugees, asylum seekers and locals. Publication WITH shares some examples of workable solutions for inclusive housing and better integration.
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The report proposed a new, quick-to-implement model to include experiments and behavioural approaches into Finnish policy design.
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The sustainable development goals are deeply interrelated. It is important to find measures to promote the attainment of several goals at once. To address environmental issues and to achieve
a more sustainable national economy, we need capacity for rapid social reforms and long-term decision-making that spans beyond terms of government. Recent initiatives in the circular economy and the green economy show that a will for reform exists.
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