National co-financing

Sweden

Stockholm County Council, Office of Regional Planning

Stockholm County Council’s mandate is to ensure that its residents have access to healthcare and public transport as well as preventing health problems.  Important elements of the County Council’s operation are long-term traffic planning, regional growth and development, making culture accessible to all of its residents and environmental issues.

 

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

EPA is the public agency in Sweden that has an overview of conditions in the environment and progress in environmental policies. They also have the task of coordinating, monitoring and evaluating efforts, involving many agencies, to meet Sweden’s environmental objectives.

 

Archipelago Foundation in the county of Stockholm

Our main task is to make it possible for everyone to be able to experience and enjoy Stockholm’s archipelago, with its vibrant cultural landscape and wealth of opportunities for recreational activities.

We preserve the pastoral landscape on our lands through grazing animals and farming. We develop businesses within recreation and tourism by leasing our buildings out to archipelago entrepreneurs, who run youth hostels, holiday villages, restaurants, waterside eating places, guest jetties and more besides. This creates jobs in the archipelago and offers a good service for visitors. We protect the environment by using special toilet facilities, composting waste and making use of the natural eco cycle.

 

County Administrative Board of Stockholm

The County Administrative Board is a government authority that exists in close proximity to the people in each county. The County Administrative Board has a unique position in the Swedish democratic system. Sweden comprises 21 counties, which are in turn divided into municipal areas.

The County Administrative Board is an important link between the people and the municipal authorities on the one hand and the government, parliament and central authorities on the other. The work of the County Administrative Board is led by the County Governor.

 

National Association of Swedish Archipelagos

The National Association for the Swedish Archipelago is an association for organizations working for the people living permanently in the Swedish archipelagoes.
Our main task is to influence the national government and different agencies on conditions for living, working and service for the circa 86.000 people living in the archipelago areas.
Our task is concentrated in three main areas; living conditions, working conditions and service conditions. Under such broad subjects there are of course many specific topics.

 

 

Finland

Novia University of Applied Science

Novia University of Applied Sciences offers multidisciplinary higher education with a practical orientation, training professionals for expert and development posts. There are 34 degree programmes leading to a Bachelor’s Degree. Four Degree Programmes run entirely in English: Environmental Engineering in Vaasa, Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Raseborg, Nursing in Vaasa and Maritime Management in Turku.

 

Nordic Council of Ministers Archipelago Cooperation

The Archipelago cooperation of the Nordic Council of Ministers is one of the eleven interregional cooperations in the Nordic countries. The Regional Council of Southwest Finland administers the cooperation.

The area for the cooperation consists of Stockholm, Sörmland and Uppsala’s archipelagic areas, and in Finland Southwest Finland and Länsi Uusimaa’s archipelagic areas. The cooperation has functioned since 1978.

 

 

Centre of Economic Development (VARELY)

The Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment manage the regional implementation and development tasks of the state administration.

There are 15 Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment. These Centres are tasked with promoting regional competitiveness, well-being and sustainable development, as well as curbing climate change.

 

Estonia

 

Association of Estonian Islands

In Estonia, there are 16 islands with a total of 47 000 inhabitants. There are two big islands that are regional authorities. The remaining 14 are the small islands with about 3 000 inhabitants ranging from 1 to about 500.

The main purpose of the Association of Estonian Islands is to promote development and sustainable populations on the 16 islands.

The foundation Environmental Investments Centre (KIK) was founded on 11 May 2000 by the Ministry of Finance.

The main activities of KIK are to channel the proceeds from the exploitation of the environment into environmental projects, to perform as the implementing agency for the environmental projects funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Cohesion Fund (CF) and to lend money for the implementation of environmental projects.

From 2010 we have also been acting as the implementing agency for the Green Investment Scheme (selling the excess CO2 quota and supervising the investments).
Our mission is to maintain healthy living environments and to value clean nature and sustainable development.