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project info
Start date: 1 April 2016
End date: 31 July 2019
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 1 632 541,14 €
EU contribution: 813 508,27 € (50%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2020
Managing authority: Tillväxtverket
European Commission Topic

Digital competence and growth in Västernorrland

Västernorrland is one of the country’s strongest regions in digitalisation and ICT. The county has a strong research environment and academic undergraduate education at Mid Sweden University. The competence supply in this industry has been identified as a very acute growth inhibitor. Västernorrland has the following vision of the regional digital agenda “An international example of how a rgion can create sustainable growth by taking advantage of the opportunities of digitalisation”. The overall goal of the project is to create growth in a region with good and long-term access to competent workforce.The project goal is to increase sales and growth in the ICT sector through fugering short- and long-term competence provision, increased national visibility and attractiveness, and strengthened digital competitiveness in the form of innovative new services and new developed companies.

Flag of Sweden  Västernorrland County, Sweden