Project Description
The EU LIFE biodiversity project is an eight-year funding mechanism to combat biodiversity loss in Finland. The Prime Minister’s Office’s goal is to develop cooperation between ministries to ensure that biodiversity issues are incorporated better into policy-making. There is a lack of policy coherence in the current siloed approach to biodiversity, which leads to uncoordinated action and ineffective policies. The Prime Minister’s Office wants to explore policy coherence as a new cross-ministry approach to tackle biodiversity and create an equal ownership and collaborative all-government approach to biodiversity.
The main questions to address are:
- What are the Ministry’s agendas and understanding of Biodiversity?
- How can VNK support a policy coherence model?
- What tools are needed to sustain policy coherence and collaborative practices at all levels of public administration?
Read more about the process in the blogs!
- Thinking Biodiversity: A Multidisciplinary Journey to Designing Solutions for Finland’s Government Structures
- HUMAN, SHMUMAN. It’s a perspective
- Small Actions = BIG Impact
- BIO Links via Agents of Change
- Biodiversity? Policy? Coherence?
- The Hidden Realities of Civil Servants
- Finally, time to get our hands dirty!
- Let’s break the silos!
- The Dark Matter Behind It All
- Exploring the Vertical Ecosystem
- Cross-pollinating in the ministerial policy ecosystem
- Rooted in Values
This project was showcased during the 2024 Final Show.
Student Proposals
BIO Links via Agents of Change
project by Meeri Aaria, Arpa Aishwarya, Kamilla Grämer and Haoyue Lei
Final report (PDF)
Presentation slides (PDF)
Video of presentation (15 min)
Breaking Silos for Biodiversity
project by Jing Luo, Annu Matthew, Jamie Smyth and Elli Törnqvist
Final report (PDF)
Presentation slides (PDF)
Video of presentation (15 min)
Rooted in Values
project by Dinah Coops, Thao Nguyen, Anna Kristine Halvorsen and Sari Kukkasniemi
Final report (PDF)
Presentation slides (PDF)
Video of presentation (15 min)