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Youth as partners in the green transition

This policy brief is based on one of Nordregio’s Localising Agenda 2030 webinars. It highlights specific tools and processes employed by Nordic municipalities and NGOs to ensure systematic youth engagement and follow-up at the local level. During the webinar, municipal representatives from Gladsaxe in Denmark, Hafnarfjörður in Iceland, Tierp in Sweden and Korsholm in Finland presented their tested tools and insights, along with two Swedish NGOs: Future Minds and Youth 2030 Movement.

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From Fields to Future: 40 action points for rural revitalisation

The Nordic Rural Youth Panel has synthesized a report outlining 40 actionable recommendations for making rural areas in the Nordic region more attractive for young people. The recommendations address the ongoing trend of young people moving to cities, highlighting the need for better public transportation, various housing options, and education that connects to local job markets in rural areas. The panel wants to change the common view that success and a good life can only be found in cities, and highlight the potential and vibrancy of rural areas.

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Rooting for the Rural: Changing narratives and creating opportunities for Nordic rural youth

This policy brief delves into the importance of understanding and supporting the priorities of young people in Nordic rural regions to ensure these communities thrive. It highlights the importance of addressing challenges that keep youth from staying in rural areas and engaging with those unsure about their future there. Serving as a comprehensive guide for policymakers, the policy brief contextualises the report from the Nordic rural youth panel “From Fields to Futures: 40 action points for rural revitalisation”.

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Gen Z Agency: Mobilising young people to strengthen Nordic rural areas – What we did and how we did it

This discussion paper outlines the project Gen Z Agency: Mobilising young people to strengthen Nordic rural areas, highlighting what we did and how we did it when engaging young people to tell us what policy and decision-makers need to do to revitalise Nordic rural areas.

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Civilsamfundets betydning for udvikling i landdistrikter

Igangværende forskningsprojekt
I et Danmark under forandring med voksende urbanisering, større kommuner, lukning af lokale forretninger og virksomheder samt centralisering af offentlige institutioner inden for politi, domstole, sygehuse og kommunale velfærdsinstitutioner (skoler, børneinstitutioner, ældrecentre), argumenteres der ofte for, at civilsamfundet er en kraft, der kan holde liv i og skabe udvikling i landdistrikterne. Omvendt diskuteres det også, hvilken betydning netop urbanisering, erhvervsliv og offentlige institutioner har for civilsamfundet.

Dette forskningsprojekt tager afsæt i den antagelse, at civilsamfundet kan have en positiv betydning for lokal udvikling i landdistrikter, men det afhænger af omfanget og karakteren af samspillet mellem civilsamfundet og det omkringliggende samfund.

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Den lokale dagligvarebutik i fremtidens landsbysamfund? Borgere på banen

Dette hæfte handler om muligheder for at sikre den lokale dagligvarebutik i små samfund. Lukning af købmandsbutikken gør ondt, men centraliserende mekanismer i samfundet har alligevel fået det sidste ord mange steder. Man kan miste muligheden for at gøre de daglige indkøb og en livsnerve som mødested – og det vil påvirke bosætningen i landsbyerne i negativ retning med selvforstærkende virkning. I de seneste år har en del landsbysamfund valgt at bryde den spiral ved selv at tage ejerskab til forretningerne. Ofte er det foregået i samarbejde med Dagrofa-koncernen, som har oplyst, at de har medvirket i 100 eksempler. I Coop-regi ses ligeledes eksempler på redninger af dagligvareforsyningen gennem et samarbejde med borgerne. Men hertil kommer et ukendt antal løsninger, hvor borgerne uafhængigt af de store koncerner selv tager hånd om deres dagligvarebutik.

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Symbolic mobility capital to fight the social stigma of staying: how young adults re-imagine narratives of ‘leaving’ during higher education

Although the outmigration choices of young adults from peripheral to urban regions to attend higher education have been researched extensively, young adults’ decisions to stay in, nearby, or return to, the peripheral home region have received less attention. This paper explores how young adults who are engaged in higher education re-imagine narratives related to notions of ‘leaving’ in their mobility biographies to justify their choice to stay in or return to their peripheral home region. We conducted in-depth interviews with postgraduate students in peripheral regions in Denmark and the Netherlands. Our findings confirm the existence of a mobility imperative for young adults in peripheral regions reproduced by both our participants and their social relations. However, we additionally find that young adults re-imagine narratives of ‘leaving’ which simultaneously correspond with contemporary discourses on place and residential mobility in the form of valuing (dis)connection to place, experiencing urban lifestyles, and life phase transitions, but which also open up possibilities for re-evaluating the attractiveness of often stigmatized peripheral regions. We suggest that narratives of ‘leaving’ during higher education help young adults to build what we call ‘symbolic mobility capital’ to mitigate the negative connotations related to living in a peripheral region.

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Købmanden som landsbyens omdrejningspunkt

’Købmanden som landsbyens omdrejningspunkt’ handler om, hvordan og hvorfor trængte, almindelige købmænd eller Brugsen er blevet omdannet
eller genopbygget ved borgeres medejerskab og anden hjælp, så landsbyen fortsat har en dagligvareforretning og et lokalt mødested dér. Den lokale
dagligvareforsyning står naturligvis på spil, hvor butikken som regel udgør en central brik i landsbyens udvikling også på andre måder.

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Do rural school closures lead to local population decline?

Denne undersøgelser analyserer hvilken effekt lukningen af 8 landsbyskoler i samme udkantskommune i 2011 havde på den lokale befolkning.

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VIVEs kommunetal 2021.4: Coronakrisen har fået flere i gang med en ungdoms­uddannelse

En stigende andel unge tager en ungdoms­uddannelse. Ikke mindst er der sket en stor stigning under coronakrisen. I storbyerne er andelen med en ungdoms­uddannelse dog stadig væsentligt lavere end i yderområderne.

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