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 [...]
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, […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The development plan for Lamminjärvi is now being drawn up - come join us!
In the Lamminjärvi area of Jalasjärvi, participatory planning has started in the fall of 2022 with the associations operating in the area. During this year, a development plan for the area will be drawn up, which will take into account the area's various functions and actors, as well as tourism perspectives, among other things. The joint vision of the associations on the development of the area is recorded in the plan and possible implementing agencies are considered. In autumn 2021, Liiveri collected development ideas from the Jalasjärvi area and presented them at a public event [...]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Young people as developers in climate matters
The young man visited several different destinations during the summer, e.g. on dairy farms. Photo: Sanna-Kaisa Nokso In the summer of 2022, the theme project "Climate wise - young people as developers" was implemented in the Liiver region, during which four associations hired young people for various development tasks. The background of the project was the changes caused by climate change and the need for measures to curb climate change. The young people have ideas that the project made it possible to put into practice. With the help of the project [...]