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Madelen Applegren grew up in Dalarna and later chose to move to Boden. This is her own story about a place where the sun often smiles. …
Category: Countryside
Citizen of the Year: “Yes, I have three full-time jobs”
Keep calm and carry on. So says the writing on the wall in the Handal family’s home in Harads, next to pictures of the children and the citizen of the year awards for both Boden and Edefors. The wall symbolically highlights the life and pride of entrepreneur Juan Handal. Juan Handal leads a hectic life, […]
She is the First Local Employee at H2 Green Steel
Entrepreneur, technical doctor and marathon runner. Meet Ida-Linn Näzelius – the Harad resident who will save the planet, H2 Green Steel’s first employee from the local area.
Deserted Houses in Rural Areas Can Come To Life Once Again
The municipality of Boden has received funding to activate empty houses in the Råne and Vitå valleys together with the municipality of Luleå. Now the houses will be renovated and sold.
House inventory for increased occupancy
An increased demand for houses in the country is matched with empty desolate houses with potential. The result is expected to lead to increased occupancy and new life in many nice old houses. In the project Grow together, the municipalities of Luleå and Boden meet to take an inventory of uninhabited houses with the potential […]
Digital information screens in the countryside
The municipality’s three service points in the countryside have received or will have digital information screens placed in a strategic place in their area. The work takes place in the Digiby project, which develops digital solutions for rural areas. The Digiby project, smart sustainable villages, conducts pilot tests of new digital solutions to increase knowledge […]
Service point in Unbyn / Avan
Now the trinity of service points in Boden municipality is complete. With operations manager Jenni Bergliv, another locally adapted service point is being formed, now across the municipal boundaries in Unbyn / Avan. In the municipality of Boden, two service points are already run – by Edeforsbygden’s economic association, EDEK, in Harads, and by Råne […]
A countryside where young people want to live
The municipality of Boden is one of three municipalities collaborating in the Youth Up North project. It will strengthen young people’s influence and participation in a vibrant countryside. Olivia Steen is the project manager here in Boden. Youth Up North shall be characterized by an entrepreneurial spirit, creativity and innovations and work co-creatively based on […]
