The project aims to strengthen community life and create conditions for long-term sustainable engagement in seven rural areas in the Umeå region. Through training, networking meetings, and experience exchange, associations will gain new tools to develop their activities, recruit more engaged individuals, and increase participation among youth. A central part of the project is to create a collaboration forum where associations can meet across village and municipal borders to exchange knowledge, build networks, and develop joint solutions to local challenges. The project will also strengthen youth influence by allowing young people to participate in shaping how the rural areas are made visible and developed. Together with youth, new communication tools and marketing efforts will be developed to highlight activities, resources, and opportunities in the countryside. The goal is to create a stronger, more inclusive, and collaborative civil society where more people feel participation and engagement in their rural area.

”We highlightthe importance of community life for the rural areas of the Umeå region!”