Liiver's board and divisions 2023
Liiver's annual meeting was organized on March 28. Kohtalonmäki farm in Jalasjärvi. At the meeting, Liiver's board members were elected to replace those who resigned. The board has also confirmed the changes in the composition of the youth department. The business division will continue with mostly the same composition as last year. Board 2023 Tarja Pienimäki from Ilmajoki will continue as chairman of the board and Pirkko Ekoluoma from Ylistaro as vice chairman. Janne Lehtinen from Jalasjärvi and Tero Järvi from Ilmajoki were elected as new board members. […]
You still have time to register your village for the Open Villages Day event!
The Open Villages day will be held nationwide on Saturday, June 10, 2023 for the ninth time. The villages can announce their own event for the day, thus enabling a nice program and getting to know the village for both tourists and potential new residents. What kind of program is going to be organized in your village? The event can be, for example, a flea market, a sauna marathon or something special about your village! Liiver's Kylille III project leader Anne Palohuhta […]
Applications for rural business and project subsidies will start in stages in 2023
The Food Agency informs: Most of the applications for business and project grants are estimated to start at the end of June 2023. Applications for project grants include community investments, training and information projects, and some development projects. Business support applications include investment support for companies and business development support applied for from ELY centers. Applications for small projects by communities and companies will also open in the fall. The Food Agency will inform when the dates for the start of applications become more specific. You should start planning projects already [...]
An illustrator of children's books finds funny details in everyday life
Already in middle school, Kristiina Mäkimattila thought that it would be wonderful to one day be an illustrator of children's books. The wish came true years later and Kristiina Mäkimattila, who has been running a company called Murupumpula since 2014 and now lives in Seinäjoki, has focused on illustrating children's books. Kristiina considers art and creative work to be a kind of play. Finding interest and joy in small things and getting attached to the background and doing the work. - Is lovely […]
Sanna-Kaisa Nokso works as Liiver's communications assistant for the summer
I'm Sanna-Kaisa Nokso and I'm in my second year of business studies at the University of Jyväskylä, and in my studies I've mainly focused on marketing and communication. I am very interested in versatile communication and social media content production, so it was wonderful to hear that a job was opening at Liiver. I'm already looking forward to what new challenges the upcoming summer will bring, it's sure to be a diverse and educational summer! Although studies are currently [...]
Information about the opening of applications
The opening of applications for the new funding period is already highly anticipated. We are working hard in various organizations to open applications, but we still have to wait. Applications open in stages, and according to the current information, some forms of support can be applied for before the summer and some will only open in the fall. Liveri has prepared e.g. by making guidelines, website renewal and application information. We are ready! Since we have received a lot of inquiries about forms of support, […]
"We tried hard and I think we even succeeded"
"We tried hard and I think we even succeeded" Shooting and hunting have interested Mikko Vuorela for 35 years. The object of interest later became a profession, and now Mikko has been running a gun shop in Ylistaro for over 20 years. When Mikko was of school age and there was no permission from home to buy an air rifle, he secretly acquired a hunting license at the age of 15. – I got a hunting card […]
Smart ideas with digital viewing: Village houses as service centers of the future
Could the doctor's remote appointment be arranged in a familiar and safe village hall? What about using virtual glasses to participate in an art exhibition or sports event organized on the other side of the world from the village hall? In the Vauhtia valokikuuun project, one of the measures is to promote the utilization of fiber optic connections that already exist or are being built in village halls and centers in order to help the creation of new services in them. For this, a ready-made service model was produced and it was piloted with digital viewing performed at four village halls [...]
The new members of Liiver's board
Liiver's annual meeting was organized on March 28. Kohtalonmäki farm in Jalasjärvi. At the meeting, new members were elected to Liiveri's board of directors to replace those who resigned. Tarja Pienimäki from Ilmajoki continues as the chairman of the board. Janne Lehtinen from Jalasjärvi and Tero Järvi from Ilmajoki were elected as new board members. Mari Mäki-Karvia, Saara Marttila and Tero Vuorenmäki from Jalasjärvi, Veera Bohjanen and Anni Kirkkomäki from Ilmajoki, Eija Saariaho from Peräseinäjoki and Kari Homi from Seinäjoki were elected as new deputies. […]
Liiver's diploma was awarded for the District's development work
Liiver's Community Builders diploma was awarded in connection with the annual meeting for the excellent development work of Kulttuurikolektivivi Silta ry's projects in the District and especially to its key personnel Juulia Mäkilainee, Iina Åmani and Johannes Karhu. The developers of the district area have already demonstrated with the results of their activities how to create a new sense of community by respecting history and nurturing a common value base. In the region, we really work together. People take responsibility for doing things together [...]