The first phase of the Ideas for Euros campaign was implemented in March-May 2021. In the campaign, the residents of the area came up with ideas about what Seinäjoki, Ilmajoki and Jalasjärvi should look like in the future. A total of more than 180 ideas or sets of ideas were submitted to the campaign and they were thumbed up almost 4,600 times. Many thanks to you residents and operators of our area for this activity!
The results of the Ideas for Euros campaign have been presented to the municipal leaders and are available for the preparation of the municipalities' own strategies. Right at the beginning of next year, we will organize events to promote the ideas that received the most thumbs up. In Jalasjärvi, the development of the Lamminjärvi area received the most support. We will present ideas to everyone who is interested on Thursday, January 20, 2022 at Jalasjärvi house. At the same time, the intention is to think about how ideas can be taken forward together. In Ilmajoki, the outdoor gym got the most thumbs up, the further ideation of which is becoming a meeting for all those interested in the matter on Friday, January 21, 2022. In Seinäjoki, the most ideas and thumbs up came for the development of the Kalajärvi area, which is the gem of the locality. How should the Kalajärvi area be developed? It is becoming an occasion later in the spring.
The campaign and development evenings are related to the creation of Liiver's strategy for the next operating period, the first phase of which is now behind us. We are applying for a new money pot and Leader group status for the new program season through a two-stage application. Liiveri received good feedback from the first stage of the search, which described how we operate and what kind of needs our region has from the point of view of local development. Based on that, it is good to continue to the second phase of the search, which will last until spring 2022. Then we will prepare the actual development strategy for the years 2023–27. The quality of the prepared strategy is affected by how well we get the residents involved in making the strategy. The quality, on the other hand, affects the amount of the prize pool.
We again need the active participation of your residents and operators in the drafting of the strategy, so that we can register the important development areas in the plan and get the best possible funding for their implementation!