Foppe and Lidwien
Pascale presenting an object from her region
Hungarian wine
The Latvian flag
Friesland province has 600 000 inhabitants of which 40-50 % lives in the rural areas. The rural policy is perhaps the strongest in the Netherlands. The budget for rural projects in general is 1 million euro/year, for community centers also 1 million/year and for small businesses also 1 million/year.
Sneek is the second biggest town in Friesland with about 33 000 inhabitants.
View from my window in Stayokay hotel
Restaurant and Partycentrum Noflik Bergsma in Easterein Village
Gegrilde tonijnsteak
Haagse hopjesbavarois
Sunday. Village Development Plans, Josien Hissink
In the minibus
Village restaurant in Bears
Village harbor
Former castle in Bears. Castle built in the 16th century, 1:1 model in 1998.
Development of the Reduzum village begun with a village plan "Reduzum 2000". Peter is chairman of the village council.
The village built its wind turbine that produces one third of the electricity for its 1 100 inhabitants. "And we go for a bigger one, to generate all the electricity we need".
"What did we achieve in Reduzum? We planted trees and we gave Reduzum a good name in the press. We built 28 new houses, a harbor, a skating-rink, rebuilt our canteen and enlarged the kindergarten. We built a connection between two lakes. We restored our church..."
The municipality built a new school in Reduzum and the village association could finance a second floor for the school. The school will stay because in The Netherlands schools are closed down only when they have less than 23 pupils.
Stayokey hostel.
Oene Krist told of Het Bildt municipality that really care for their villages and associations - and get good results. The bottom up development model for the municipality was adopted from the Leader program.
Monday. Discussion about lessons from Reduzum village.
Village development plans - the contribution of volunteers.
Moddergat village at the North sea.
Esonstad leisure village.
Village house and school in Oudwoude.
Oudwoude Aldswâld. How to realize your village development plan.
Tuesday 2.11.2010.
Weduwe Joustra in Sneek.
Lunch in Sneek.
The participants were from 14 different countries. Here Marta presents the activities in Spain/Catalonia.
Happy hour: Baltic herrings and rye bread from Estonia.
Wednesday. Group work role play. Group 1: how to preserve and develop at the same time?
Group 2: How to arrange traffic through the village and utilize the river.
Group 3: Different inhabitants in the village: young, old ...
Group 4: How to look forward and develop innovations
Back at home: our cats.
