1. Leader in Ostrobothnia Don´t let your idea stay just as a good idea -make it real!

2. The Swedishspeaking Ostrobothnia - Our future Our aim is to support the development the inhabitants of the rural areas of Ostrobothnia wish to have. Their needs, wishes and priorities must be paid attention to and be combined with our experience of rural development. Do you have ideas, enthusiasm, visions and knowledge? Do you want to create a future for yourself and others in the countryside? Do you have ideas those make the Swedishspeaking areas of Ostrobothnia an attractive place where to live and work? Look at… and read more! www.aktion.fi

3. Aktion Ostrobothnia The society Aktion is a union of organisations, municipalities and private persons in the Swedishspeaking areas of Ostrobothnia. The last years we have specialized in rural development. The aims The aim is to develop ourselves to a dynamo for local development in societies and organisations in the Swedishspeaking Ostrobothnia. A part of this is to realize the LEADER programme of the Swedishspeking Ostrobothnia. The aim is also to activate new active members of the developing work of Aktion and also to develop collaboration with the municipalities and the region authorities in our area. Furthermore we develop the collaboration with the other LAG-groups in Finland especially in the Swedishspeaking areas.

4. on the national level to realize the common ambitions of the Svenska Studieförbundet and the Svenska Studiecentralen The activities of the society are to: to be a cooperation organization for organizations and societies in the Swedishspeaking Ostrobothnia regionally and locally work for innovative rural development to create an ecological, social and economical lasting development Aktion Ostrobothnia

5. The vision until 2013 Vital villages with wide supply of service and creative young entrepreneurs Vital villages Scenery, nature and culture will create good opportunities for living, activities and livelihood Enterprising in Ostrobotnhia A widen base of business that produces services and adventures suited to the local needs Competent villages Learning where the participants themselves ennoble knowledge and get inspiring guidance