Merry Christmas!
Liiveri thanks customers, partners and colleagues for the past year. Let's continue forward together - ideas have roots and dreams have wings! The people of Liiver vacation mainly in weeks 51 and 52.
At the moment, it is not possible to apply for funding
Currently, it is not possible to apply for funding for new projects. The opening of applications for the new funding period and the support conditions will be announced separately. Applying at the beginning of 2023 is not yet possible.
Jokipii-Ahonkylä is the southern Pohja village of the year
The village of the year was chosen in Alavude's Kätkänjoki at the beginning of December. Photo: Juha Iso-Tuisku. The autumn meeting of Eteläpohjalaiset Kylät ry was held in the traditional way in the previous year's village of the year, this time in Alavude's Kätkänjoki on December 3, 2022. Jokipii-Ahonkylä from Kurikan's Jalasjärvi was chosen as the southern Pohja village of 2022. By choosing the village of the year, we want to highlight the versatile activities of the villages and increase the recognition and visibility of village activities. The goal is to find active villages, […]
"The best weeks of this year"
Youth section member Milla Rantamäki and Heidi Kohtala from the Food Agency participated in the local meeting organized in Myslowice, Poland in June 2022. Liiveri sent ten young people or those working with young people on study trips to different parts of Europe: Italy, Poland, Germany, Greece and Bulgaria. In addition, a local meeting for international participants was organized in Liiver in August-September in Finland. The trips were part of the SaYouth project, which aims to develop young people's opportunities to influence and participate in civil society [...]
Get inspired by Liiver's development work
Through the following slide show, we present a taste of what has been done in Leader Liiver's area between 2014 and 2022. At the same time, the images direct thoughts to the future and hopefully inspire new development work from 2023 onwards. International cooperation is long-term work! In 2015, Liiveri was able to participate in the Jalasjärvi municipality's project, which started the cooperation with Swedish Leader Östra Skaraborg. Today, cooperation continues with entrepreneurship, youth work and [...]
People from Koskenkorva looking for ideas
The famous liquor factory is located in the village of Koskenkorva. How could the Koskenkorva brand be used better in the region's tourism and how would it be possible to create vitality and new attraction for the region? The people of Kostenkorva are looking for answers to these questions by taking a study trip to Åhus. Åhus is a village in the municipality of Kristianstad in southern Sweden, and traditional Absolut Vodka has been produced there since 1879. The goal was to see how a town of the same size as Ilmajoki has succeeded […]
New youth division members
Liiver's youth division met in Herrala on Wednesday 23 November. Elli Aro, Jenni Päivärinta and Laura Niemi from Ilmajoki and Veera Bohjanen from Seinäjoki started as new members of the division. You can read more about the youth division here.
Optical fiber as a guarantee of vitality in Kurika
The city of Kurika wants to develop its sparsely populated areas by supporting the construction of their high-speed optical fiber network. Kurikka is the first municipality in South Ostrobothnia to utilize the broadband construction support of the EU's recovery tool. The broadband construction project has been put out to tender in the EP union, and possible fiber optic construction would start in the spring of 2023. In Kurika, preparations for EU support funding were on time. In the spring of 2021, Kurikka signed up for the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency's Traficom market study, the analysis of which identified the eligible areas. Getting support […]
Liiver's village expert retires
Irma Kortesuo, who worked as a village expert for more than ten years, will retire at the end of October. Irma had time to work in Liiver as the leader of four different village projects. The Kylille III project will continue until next summer, and agrologist Anne Palohuhta will start as a village expert in Liiver in January 2023. Read Irma's interview on Liiver's blog.
"I hope that the development work will continue in the future as well"
Irma Kortesuo, who worked as a village expert for more than ten years, retired at the end of October. Irma had time to work in Liiver as the leader of four different village projects. - Promoting cooperation between and within villages has been important to me. The villages are different from each other and have different strengths. At its best, cooperation means joining forces, learning from others and also learning to appreciate others, Irma [...]