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1.9.2010
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Government meets design at Helsinki Design Lab Global 2010
Three-day main event of Helsinki Design Lab starts on 1.9. The event searches for answers on what does design offer to decision makers and how can design help in solving challenges of our societies?
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3.6.2010
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Sitra's report on the new healthcare financing and steering system: Basic healthcare at the occupational healthcare level for all Finns
The report, published by Sitra's Municipal Programme, introduces an alternative way of reforming the healthcare system and of resolving the diverse challenges related to the current system. The goal of the new healthcare financing and steering system model is to ensure that citizens get equal basic healthcare, corresponding to the level of current occupational healthcare.
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28.5.2010
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Local food markets to triple
A Sitra survey predicts new kinds of online services, small wholesalers, perishable goods wholesale markets and versatile delivery and transportation models for local food. The willingness to buy local food exists but an efficient distribution and logistics system reducing the need to use intermediaries has yet to be introduced.
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19.5.2010
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Sitra’s website down for maintenance on Sunday, 23 May
Due to systems maintenance, Sitra's website will be unavailable on Sunday, 23 May, from around 7am to 9am.
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29.4.2010
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New wellsprings of vitality in Finland after the crisis
Finland is experiencing a period of fundamental change. These changes will affect how we perceive economic growth, well-being, as well as the way people live and work. The impact of the changes will be so great that it would be fair to talk of a cultural transformation. Sitra’s new book, After the Crisis, and the report, Finland: Wellsprings for a Vital Future, shed light on these changes and suggest a way forward for the future.
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29.3.2010
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€60m Low Carbon Building Project in Helsinki
Sitra, and development partners, SRV and VVO today announce a €60m investment for a low carbon housing and commercial building complex in Helsinki.
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26.3.2010
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Sitra to launch a training programme on social change and the economy
Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, will again launch training operations aimed at decision-makers. The training programme concerns the challenges faced by societies and economies in the 2010s.
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25.3.2010
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Board Report and Financial Statements 2009: Sitra further specified its strategy – finances well-balanced
In 2009, Sitra further specified its strategy and operating model so that they better support Sitra's common objectives. These objectives include the comprehensive well-being of citizens, Finland becoming an international model of a sustainable society, and reinforcing Sitra's role as a visionary, reformer, and an initiator of systemic changes creating well-being.
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9.3.2010
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Health kiosk opens in the Trio shopping centre
The City of Lahti will open a health kiosk at the Trio shopping centre on 10 March 2010, where customers will have access to health care services provided by the city in a reliable, easy and rapid way. Lahti is the first major city in Finland to offer this type of service. The health kiosk services will be provided by three healthcare professionals: a physiotherapist, a public health nurse and a registered nurse.
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26.2.2010
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The gas field is the primary energy project in Kola
The gas field is the primary energy project in Kola.
The Murmansk region is undergoing a radical change. For the last few decades, the region has remained in the shadows as the rest of Russia has progressed. Major investments in energy production in the north are now ahead, but in the prevailing economic situation they will start off slowly .
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26.2.2010
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The Ylöjärvi health kiosk receives praise for its ease of use, attentive approach and friendly service
The health kiosk in the Elo shopping centre in Ylöjärvi, which has been operating since June 2009, received an average grade of 9.1 for quality of service in a patient survey. Funded partially by Sitra, this pilot project offering walk-in health services has met with a surprisingly positive response.
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18.2.2010
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The Health Care Programme 2005–2009 strived for what is best for the public
During its operations, the Health Care Programme has sought and prepared new solutions for improving health care services. As the programme advanced, it became increasingly clear that in addition to individual actions, health care development requires in-depth structural changes.
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3.2.2010
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Sitra’s Landmarks Barometer monitors the relationship of the Finns to the countryside – the countryside boosts Finns and businesses
The barometer developed for Sitra’s Landmarks Programme confirms the opinion that emerged during the programme's preparation stage: Finns consider the countryside to be a special resource.
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3.2.2010
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Sitra’s Landmarks Programme as an innovative pioneer puts the countryside in a new light
Everyone has their own individual recipe for well-being, and they all involve taking pleasure in the countryside and the city in unique ways. The programme aims to strengthen the role of the countryside in these recipes for well-being. In this way, the countryside itself benefits.
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26.1.2010
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Sitra's Public Leadership and Management Programme is launched − The public sector deserves better leadership and management
Does the public sector, with a total of 645,000 employees, really have the potential, competence and enthusiasm to change the working methods of the sector, or is it so that the public sector is ineffective, bureaucratic and does not listen to the views of the citizens?
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14.1.2010
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Showcasing Finnish creativity and teamwork skills
The annual magazine Focus on the Economy and Technology 2010, a showcase for Finland’s strengths that reaches a global reader base, has a revamped look and all new content.
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22.12.2009
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153 municipalities and 24 municipal federations interested in national service centres
A total of 153 municipalities and 24 municipal federations have joined the negotiations on two national service centres specialising in information technology, financial administration and human resources management. The negotiations were launched by Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund.
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18.12.2009
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Happy New Year
At the end of this successful year, Sitra would like to wish all its partners a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
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11.12.2009
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Spirit and courage will decide the future of Finland
Leaders forum consisting of 200 decision-makers, opinion leaders and business sector representatives find the prevention of climate change, and the utilisation of business opportunities related to it, as the keys to the future success of Finland.
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25.11.2009
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Helsinki – World Design Capital 2012
Helsinki has been chosen as World Design Capital 2012. The appointment is conferred biennially by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) to a city that uses design in an innovative way. The criteria for the award is the use of design to improve the social, cultural and economic life of a city.
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