Kvarken Council’s Strategy 2030
Interaction between residents
Actions
Our ongoing actions in the Interaction between residents focus area are as follows:
Working Committee for Culture and Education
The Kvarken Council’s board can appoint necessary committees within the framework of the Kvarken Council’s activities. The working committees carry out concrete activities and initiatives that contribute to regional development. Their work ensures that collaboration continues even when there are no active projects bringing the stakeholders together. Establishing working committees is a concrete example of how we implement our organisation form, the EGTC.
Chairman: Jonny Lundin, Region Västernorrland
Deputy Chairman: Anna-Kaisa Pusa, City of Kurikka
Contact person at Kvarken Council: Development Manager Veronica Berg
Status: Ongoing.
Allowances for grassroots cooperation in the Kvarken region
The Kvarken Council awards grants for activities that strengthen contacts between Sweden and Finland in the Kvarken region.
Status: Ongoing.
Interpretation equipment
The Kvarken Council rents out professional conference and simultaneous interpretation equipment for meetings and conferences. The service contributes to strengthening contacts and removing obstacles to cooperation caused by language barriers.
Status: Ongoing.
Cultural Platform Kvarken
The goal for the Cultural Platform Kvarken feasibility study is to investigate whether it is possible to establish a cooperation structure that facilitates continuous cultural cooperation in the Kvarken region and brings together stakeholders, consumers, companies, and policymakers across borders, for example in the form of an event platform.
Status: Completed.
Kvarken Film Network
The goal of the Kvarken Film Network feasibility study is to analyze the potential for a cross-border network of key stakeholders within the film and tv industries in the Kvarken region. Such a network could act as a foundation for developing the Kvarken region’s film industry.
Status: Completed.
Culture 3.0 – Initiative
Culture as a driving force in regional development.
The Kvarken Council contributes to promoting the Culture 3.0 initiative in the region, which aims at integrating culture as an important part of the regional development work. Initially, a cooperation project has been discussed within this area.
Status: Ongoing.
Cooperation with the Nordic Association
In many ways, the Kvarken Council’s work for cross-border cooperation goes hand in hand with the Nordic Association’s Northern Perspective theme for 2023, which is “Border Regions of the Future”. The Kvarken Council and the Nordic Association in Västerbotten work together to increase cross-border cooperation between people.
Status: Ongoing.
Contact us
Do you have further ideas, suggestions for action or cooperation?
The Kvarken Council is happy to support cooperation projects that benefit the Kvarken region. You are welcome to brainstorm with us to develop your project idea.
You can contact us at any time, but if you want to be prepared, check out our tips on what you need to tell us: https://www.kvarken.org/en/project-workshop/
