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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 growth potential of global consumer cleantech is almost limitless. In order to take a lead in highly competed sectors one needs to set a focus in good time. By taking the right actions, Finland can become a leading country in several consumer cleantech markets. The action points suggested in this report are the
first steps on this road.
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The radical development in smart solutions, the ageing of building stock, our need to radically cut our greenhouse gas emissions and many other strong drivers are changing the way we live, faster than ever before. That change is particularly significant in areas with older building stock – but it is…
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International skills and competences, developed through international experiences during study or practical training, are an asset on the labour market. Or so we assume. But do we know this?
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While current efforts towards the smarter use of natural resources exist, raising the prospect of promising economic growth, as of today little attention is paid to the market opportunities beyond them. This paper presents a fresh approach for linking the smart use of resources with business.
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Compared to large companies, substantially less attention has been paid to mid-size companies as forerunners of strategic sustainability practices. However, there are various reasons to assume that the best examples of strategic sustainability might be found amongst mid-size companies.
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Imagining how life would look like in a sustainable world where ‘one planet living’ has been attained might be difficult. That’s why we created four potential future scenarios to describe what sustainable lifestyles in Europe might look like in 2050 and to identify the pathways towards reaching it. Our scenarios are not predictions or forecasts but instead seek to
explore the most extreme yet sustainable possibilities, in order to help e.g. policy makers and designers think of the currently “unthinkable”.
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