Internationalisation is often portrayed as an entrepreneurial act driven by individual firms. In reality, SMEs rarely expand internationally on their own. Research highlights the critical role of intermediary organisations — including business support institutions,...
People are living longer than ever before. The real question is: are our societies ready? As Finland and Europe move towards a long-life society, aging is no longer just a care issue — it is a design challenge. Inspired by Finland’s Innovation Fund, Sitra’s Megatrends...
Following the initial analysis of rehabilitation practices, the project progressed to the development and testing of Virtual Assistant (VA) prototypes. These pilots are built on the OpenAI Assistants framework and employ a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) approach...
Public sector rehabilitation faces growing demands, yet many promising digital solutions remain underused due to complex development processes, strict regulations, and limited acceptance of the clients and professionals. HybReDe project addresses these challenges by...
Internationalisation is often discussed as a strategic milestone — a decision to “enter a new market”. For many SMEs, however, the reality is far less linear. Research and practical experience show that internationalisation is rarely a single event. Instead, it is a...
On Friday, January 16, MI-RAP hosted a focused breakfast reception at the House of Europe during Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS) in Groningen, the Netherlands, bringing together European stakeholders working on music ecosystem development at city and regional level. The...
Produced by Creative Insights Studio, the publication explains how towns and cities can work systematically with local cultural actors—artists, organisations, community groups—to address social challenges such as declining participation, fragmentation, and lack...
The BSR Cultural Pearls project is an initiative aimed at helping municipalities in the Baltic Sea Region use culture as a means to build more resilient and connected communities. By awarding the “Cultural Pearls” title, the project supports cities and towns in...
The moderator of the hackathon was international inspiration coach Harald Lepisk. The young participants were further inspired by Ergo-Hart Västrik, leader of the Kodavere Heritage Centre, and Laura Lillepalu-Scott, director of the Alatskivi Castle Foundation....
In this follow-up event to the strategic roundtablehosted during the Macro-regional and Sea Basin Strategies Days in September, Felix Schartner Giertta, lead partner of the project at the Council of the Baltic Sea States, presented insights from three years of...
