Target scenario 2040
Vision 2040: Kainuu – an attractive region of positive net migration and year-round tourism
1. Wellbeing and employment
• Turning negative net migration to markedly positive by boosting Kainuu’s attraction and retention rate
• Making Kainuu a model region for multilocation and remote work
• Securing Kainuu’s independent status
• Strengthening the sustainability of Kainuu’s public finances
• Boosting the wellbeing of people in Kainuu through preventive work
2. Business, industry, competence and digital transition
• Securing the availability of a competent workforce
• New companies, developing and growing companies, sectoral drivers and workplaces
• More business investments in Kainuu
• Successful digital transition in the private, public and third sectors
• Developing the quality of work
• Boosting the regional economy’s growth and exports, and strengthening resilience
• Increasing the added value in industry and services and improving the productivity of work
• Securing the continuity of companies and farms through successful owner changes
• Strengthening research, development and innovation activities and competence.
• Ensuring a high-quality education path in Kainuu, from early childhood education and care to basic education and to education provided by universities and universities of applied sciences
• Increasing the number of working and study age women in Kainuu
• Increasing the number of tourists in Kainuu
3. Green and just transition
• Companies operate responsibly and harness the opportunities provided by the green transition
• Kainuu strengthens its role as a significant producer of renewable energy
• Kainuu remains a nationally significant carbon sink and develops into a notably carbon negative region by 2040, sequestering more carbon than it emits
• Kainuu safeguards a good living environment and biodiversity
• The economy undergoes a green and just transition, moving from a fossil-based economy to a low-carbon circular economy
4. Accessibility and regional structure 2040
• Building and maintaining region-wide data communication connections in Kainuu
• Implementing a green transition in transport
• Improving internal and external accessibility in Kainuu
Priorities of smart specialisation in Kainuu
Theme 1: Increasing research and promoting innovation
Theme 2: Strengthening and diversifying the specialisation base (2A) Industries: Bioeconomy, mining, metals and technology industry (2B) Knowledge-based service industries
Theme 3: Connectivity and integration, measures for interregional collaboration
Theme 4: Digital transition
Theme 5: Green Deal and green transition
Priorities for development
Business, industry, competence and digital transition
• Entrepreneurship, business, industry, investments and digital transition
• Competent workforce
• Education and expertise
• Smart specialisation in Kainuu
Priorities for the development of industries
• Tourism
• Technology industry
• Bioeconomy
• Mining
Internationalisation
Accessibility, regional structure and multilocation
• Promoting accessibility through new mobility structures and electronic services, as well as infrastructure investments
• Ensuring a sustainable regional structure, multilocality and good services to help attract industries and investments
Green and just transition