Vital Rural Area

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Vital Rural Area (short: Vital) is an European co-operation project of 13 project partners from six North Sea countries in the framework of the Interreg IVB North Sea Programme. Leadpartner is NOFA, the co-operation between the Dutch Municipalities of Achtkarspelen, Dantumadiel, Dongeradeel and Kollumerland c.a. in the Province of Fryslân. The project is supported and advised by a scientific group.

shopping street in a village in Achtkarspelen, NL

putting regional development to work for jobs, vitality and sustainability

The project tries to find transnational strategies to fortify regional areas and addresses, therefore, in three content-related and strongly inter-connected workpackages (WPs) three major themes connected to regional development:

empowerment of SMEs, towards new economical prospects and innovations
branding of the region, towards a professional exposure of regions
optimizing services, towards more and better accessible services and amenities

The project adopts and developes the co-operative agreement approach CAA, an overall, methodical way to involve all stakeholders on all levels in an active way in the development of the project, the policy ideas and the dissemination of the results.

On the basis of the activities and experiences in the workpackages, the project will gradually develop, implement and test a transnational, transferable general working method for sustainable projects on regional development: the rural power pack RPP. The RPP, as well as the policy ideas, will be disseminated and communicated at EU and national level and to other European Regions, by a mobile implementation team in the last year of the project period (end: December 2013).

European flags at The Hague, NL

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putting regional development to work for jobs, vitality and sustainability