Härnösand and Nykarleby are two cities facing similar challenges, sparsely populated regions, ageing population with young people moving away and society turning multicultural and -lingual, who need to develop inclusive, digitally supported ways of including residents in planning and decisionmaking. Their regions share many similarities, but there are also differences in both circumstances and challenges that merit comparison and exchange. Urban planning is one example of a sector where there is need of new tools and ways of working in order to create paths towards a sustainable society.
The Interreg Aurora funded small-scale project Innovation in urban planning aims to document and analyse the challenges, similarities and differences of the two municipalities in order to define a way forward and prepare for a development project. Its focus will be to create a strategy and test new digitally supported solutions that combine democracy and inclusivity through active communication with good municipal governance, with knowledge transfer and learning outcomes as important results.
The overall objective is to investigate the conditions for creating a common cross border process for dialogue on the possibilities with digitalisation and citizen participation, e g for urban planning.
Contact: Jennie Olofsson, project manager, Härnosands kommun, jennie.olofsson@harnosand.se
