Outputs & Results

Mission statement:
The mission aims to create a coordinated and shared structure for competence supply in Örnsköldsvik, aligning needs, skills and initiatives through clearer roles, better knowledge and improved methods for matching competence demand and supply.

Context:
Örnsköldsvik faces a fragmented competence supply system, with weak links between the municipality’s internal workforce needs and the wider labour market, education and regional development perspective. The challenge is not a lack of activity, but limited coordination, unclear responsibilities, weak population growth, skills mismatches and a lack of shared overview.

Purpose and direction:
The mission focuses on improving coordination, prioritisation and alignment of competence-related initiatives. A key element is the further development of the municipality’s innovation tool, InnoVera, so that it can gather needs and ideas from employees, citizens and other target groups, structure them, and connect them to the mission and ongoing initiatives.

How RegMOI works:
The RegMOI approach is used to define and refine a shared mission with stakeholders, map the competence supply system, identify dependencies and initiatives, and assess a portfolio of actions based on their contribution to the mission. Örnsköldsvik acts as a testbed for mission-oriented governance, combining data-informed needs analysis with portfolio management to support more coordinated decision-making.

Mission statement:
The mission seeks to protect, restore and enhance the cultural heritage, biodiversity and climate resilience of Carndonagh’s two rivers — the Glentogher-Donagh and Glenagannon — through community-led climate action, education and collaborative river stewardship.

Context:
The two rivers are important ecological, cultural and climate assets for the town. They support biodiversity, contribute to natural flood regulation and form part of local heritage. However, they are under pressure from pollution, habitat degradation, biodiversity loss and climate-related impacts such as increased rainfall and flood risk.

Purpose and direction:
The mission provides a framework for community-led river protection and climate adaptation. It aims to build local understanding of the links between river health, climate change and resilience, while supporting education, citizen science, river monitoring, heritage storytelling and practical habitat restoration.

How RegMOI works:
RegMOI brings together environmental, cultural, educational and community actors around a shared climate mission. Rather than treating river restoration, education, heritage and biodiversity as separate activities, the mission integrates them into one coordinated portfolio. Actions are assessed by their contribution to river health, climate resilience and long-term community stewardship.

Mission statement:
By 2035, Juva, Kangasniemi and Pieksämäki aim to reduce vacancy and underuse in publicly owned buildings, ensuring municipal properties are used effectively, support local vitality and are managed through participatory processes involving residents and third-sector organisations.

Context:
Municipalities in South Savo face growing challenges linked to vacant and underused public buildings. These pressures are driven by population decline, changing service needs, health and social welfare reforms, repair requirements and mismatches between existing building stock and future demand. The issue affects municipal finance, housing, land use, public services and local economic development.

Purpose and direction:
The mission aims to move beyond case-by-case property management towards a coordinated regional response. It provides a framework for reducing vacancy, reusing buildings, supporting local vitality and improving decision-making through better data, stakeholder involvement and documented pathways for each vacant property.

How RegMOI works:
RegMOI is applied by using a regional system map and mission factsheet to understand the wider network of actors influencing public real estate. Municipalities act as practical mission operators, while residents, companies, associations, welfare services, investors, financiers, state bodies and EU-level actors form part of the wider system. The mission supports monitoring through vacancy, occupancy, sales, demolition and reuse data, with regular review and adaptation.

Mission statement:
By 2030, Akademi Norr which is a cross-county collaboration between twelve municipalities in Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Jämtland and Västernorrland aims to ensure equitable access to higher education and relevant training in rural areas through local learning centres, supported by a coordinated and data-informed system.

Context:
Rural regions face persistent barriers to accessing higher education and relevant training. Although local learning centres are important, the wider skills system is fragmented, with municipalities, employers, public organisations and education providers often working through parallel initiatives. Local competence needs are frequently incomplete, outdated or scattered, making it difficult to plan provision effectively.

Purpose and direction:
The mission seeks to strengthen local learning centres as strategic hubs for education, lifelong learning and skills development. It aims to improve coordination between municipalities, education providers and employers, align training with labour-market needs and reduce barriers for underrepresented groups in rural areas.

How RegMOI works:
RegMOI provides a structured, data-driven working model across three layers: a strategic layer linking training to shared societal goals; a system layer collecting and structuring needs, ideas and initiatives; and an operational layer assessing and prioritising actions according to relevance and feasibility. This helps turn a fragmented skills landscape into a coordinated portfolio of initiatives that supports long-term regional development.