AREA OF INTERVENTION 1

Strengthened residents – social sustainability

The area of intervention puts people at the center and primarily contributes to goal 1 – an engaged, thriving, and co-creating population for strengthened local development power.

It can, for example, involve:

• efforts to strengthen local community and sense of belonging, cohesion, local engagement, and democratic processes
• new and developed meeting places for all generations
• new recruitment, continuity, and generational change in community life and local society
• strengthen people's health and well-being, everyone's equal value, multiculturalism, integration and meaningful employment in social activities, security
• attitude creation among young people, young people's co-determination, participation, belief in the future and realization of visions, young people's projects for their own community

INTERVENTION AREA 2

Strengthened living environment – ecological sustainability

The intervention area focuses on physical places and primarily contributes to goal 2 – A strengthened local economy with livelihood opportunities and competitive entrepreneurship. The intervention area is broad and encompasses many dimensions. They include various initiatives that contribute in different ways to strengthening the attractiveness of the place for living, working, and visiting for both old and young, equal living conditions between rural areas and cities, and the dimension of developing, caring for, and enhancing nature and cultural values. In the concept of living environment, we include both physical and social environments, digital as well as analog.

It can, for example, involve:

• strengthen the attractiveness of our places for living, working, and visiting.
• alternative solutions for access to services through e.g. ”Smart Rural Areas” and digital tools
• accessibility: Alternative transport solutions, changing attitudes towards travel and influencing travel habits and transport, improving digital and mobile accessibility
• access to permanent housing for all generations
• expanded range of leisure activities. Prioritized activities for children and young people.
• develop development materials, mobilize and influence attitudes, market, influence immigration
• nature and cultural preservation, making nature and culture accessible for recreation and tourism, development of small-scale infrastructure (bridges, trails, signs, docks, etc.),
• cultural practice, cultural events
• strengthen local consumption and production
• future-proof our living environment, sustainable solutions

INTERVENTION AREA 3

Strengthened industry – economic sustainability

The intervention area encompasses prioritized efforts for business development, secure economy, secure and location-independent jobs, digitalization, innovation, e-commerce. It also includes the need to develop and diversify green industries, as well as sustainable transport for goods and people.

It can, for example, involve:

• strengthen and develop entrepreneurship that works for minimal utilization of the earth's ecological resources, e.g. innovative technical solutions, digital transformation, circular business models, and circulating resources
• socially responsible entrepreneurship, e.g. social enterprises
• entrepreneurship that works for its community in its community, e.g. association-driven entrepreneurship, smart villages
• develop location-independent work and new solutions using digital technology
• job opportunities and internships
• employment for youth, new Swedes, and individuals who are outside the labor market
• diversify activities within nature, agriculture, and fishing, development of new products and production methods
• local sales channels
• food supply
• development of the tourism industry
• develop cultural expressions as an industry
• skills development and joint development initiatives for entrepreneurship