Coordinator for International Affairs - Tampere, Pirkanmaa

Job summary

We are seeking a person who is passionate about the future of regional innovation policy, sees the bigger picture instead of individual projects, and is enthusiastic about finding the most interesting international comparisons for Finnish urban development.

Responsibilities

• Examination of the sustainable urban development InnoCities entity from an international perspective.
• Production of easy-to-understand and interesting content for European urban developers in cooperation with a communications expert.
• Identification of new actions, changes, financial instruments, and developments that are key to our mission, and planning of further actions together with the team.
• Communication on sustainable urban development with EU offices.
• Keeping up to date with and communication of the upcoming programming period and topical debate on EU urban development and regional innovation policy.
• Keeping up to date with and interpretation of funding opportunities that are interesting from the perspective of innovation activities in different European cities for those implementing ecosystem agreements.
• Organisation of an international benchmark visit for Finnish urban developers once a year. Your work involves planning these visits and implementing the arrangements in cooperation with our development expert and other team members. You will also participate in these visits.
• Background work to participate in various international events a few times a year.
• Other tasks related to the project.

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