Hållbarhetsveckan – Kestävän kehityksen viikko. Is an initiative taking place in Finland promoting participation and communality. Seven regions arrange regional sustainability weeks in order to offer solutions for a sustainable future, together . The Sustainability Week highlights good examples of sustainable solutions in rural areas. It’s an event week that brings together different actors to […]
Hållbarhetsveckan – Kestävän kehityksen viikko. Is an initiative taking place in Finland promoting participation and communality. Seven regions arrange regional sustainability weeks in order to offer solutions for a sustainable future, together . The Sustainability Week highlights good examples of sustainable solutions in rural areas. It’s an event week that brings together different actors to inspire and make visible hands-on measures for a sustainable society. The program for the week is created by companies, associations, municipalities, schools, and other actors taking part.
During the Sustainability Week, both small and large players share and highlight their work with sustainability in different ways, the threshold for taking part is low and thus the small, good examples of sustainability that exist in different organizations’ operations are highlighted.
Sustainability Week offers a practical concept as a partial solution for a transition to a sustainable society. The issue of participation is also important and part of the main idea. Together, we can create a strong sustainability brand for rural areas. The sustainable development-week initiative is also eager to create links with other regions in Europe dealing with sustainability, rural development, and rural policy.
The sustainability week is arranged through a thematic network operated under the auspices of the Finnish Rural Policy Council and is responsible for the development of rural policy and the promotion of an overall rural policy program within the framework of its theme. Rural policy networks are funded from the national rural research and development funds available to the Rural Policy Council.