Umbrella Smart village

About the Project

Leader Mittland Plus has been granted support for the project umbrella Smart bygd, a so-called umbrella project directly linked to the implementation project Smart bygd 2030, and aims to provide micro-support to villages/rural areas where groups want to start work to find common development goals and approach the smart villages concept.
The project should be able to provide micro-support to gather groups to together determine which development areas exist, and prioritize what the local residents want to do together and thereby mobilize rural areas for the development of local solutions to solve common problems, e.g. developing local economy and smart villages, development, planning, and implementation of common ideas that contribute to the area's attractiveness or development.

From the application

”The purpose is for locations to be able to apply for a micro-support to form a collaboration and start the journey towards smart rural areas, which strengthens the area's attractiveness.”

LAG decides to prioritize the project as it meets all basic requirements and achieves more than 300 points, which means that the project is assessed to contribute to the goals and efforts included in the implementation of the local development strategy for Leader Mittland Plus.
The applicant has described in their application that the project's benefits accrue to the countryside, follows the basic principles of the leader method regarding partnership, local anchoring, and local innovation, and through its results can contribute to Goal 1: An engaged, prosperous, and co-creating population for strengthened local development capacity through 1A Efforts to strengthen local community and sense of belonging, cohesion, local engagement, and democratic processes and Goal 2: An attractive, sustainable, and inclusive living environment – a place to long for through sub-goal 2F develop development materials, mobilize and influence attitudes, market, influence immigration.