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Estonia processes citizens’ initiatives up to three times faster than Finland, Sitra finds

Sitra’s study shows that Finland could learn from Estonia’s flexible citizens’ initiative system.
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How to turn off recommendation algorithms on the main social media platforms

The big social media platforms must allow you to opt out of personalised content feeds.
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Circular solutions tackle biodiversity loss and unlock business growth – see Europe’s top 30 list

Circular solutions can tackle biodiversity loss and unlock new business opportunities.
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How can AI help tackle key sustainability challenges?

Biodiversity loss is one of the big problems facing society. Artificial intelligence could become one of our most powerful tools to tackle it.

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  1. Estonia processes citizens’ initiatives up to three times faster than Finland, Sitra finds

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  2. Why we visited the year 2027 prior to WCEF2024?

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  3. How can AI help tackle key sustainability challenges?

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  4. Digital product passports – a tool for sustainable growth

    news Fair data economy

  5. How to turn off recommendation algorithms on the main social media platforms

    articles Fair data economy

  6. Sitra pilot project: a new way to streamline access to follow-up data on new medicines

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  7. Data spaces are building blocks of the digital future

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  8. Our relationship with time impacts willingness to work for a shared future

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  9. WCEF2024: Europe urgently needs a circular single market to safeguard economic security

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WCEF promotes the circular economy

The circular economy reduces emissions and the loss of biodiversity. The World Circular Economy Forum WCEF brings together experts in the field. Check-out the insights from WCEF2024 and sign up for the newsletter for WCEF2025 in Brazil!

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WCEF2024: Europe urgently needs a circular single market to safeguard economic security

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Digital Product Passports: catalysing Europe’s sustainable growth

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Circular solutions tackle biodiversity loss and unlock business growth – see Europe’s top 30 list

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Democracy and participation

Democracy only works if people trust each other and trust social institutions and decision-makers. The goal of the Democracy and participation theme is to seek solutions for strengthening social participation and trust and to find ways to take advantage of new technologies.

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Fair data economy

We are building a human-driven, fair data economy based on the European value base. The use of data creates well-being and competitiveness and helps to develop societies. Fairness means that the interests of individuals, businesses and society are balanced.

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Foresight

Sitra produces long-term foresight data in anticipation of the future. In addition, we aim to support Finnish society in interpreting and making use of this data. This work will help decision-makers, companies, communities and individuals, to prepare for the future.

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Societal training

Sitra aims to boost the ability of Finnish decision-makers and change-makers to deal jointly with the key social challenges and opportunities of the future. The objective of our training function is to generate new ideas and new solutions. Our activities aim to create learning environments that enable thinking about and developing things together.

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Sustainability solutions

Our daily lives, decision-making practices and business can fit within the earth’s carrying capacity. It pays to seize sustainable solutions right now, as they can help us stop overconsumption and biodiversity loss and mitigate climate change.

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