Raudanmaa

Raudanmaa is a rural area with some 600 inhabitants, which consists of several small hamlets and houses surrounded by beautiful lakeside nature, woods, and fields. People live very close to nature which is a great asset that our village can offer both to new residents and visitors. Our main aspiration is to be a service-oriented, innovative village where daily life runs smoothly. We want to bring new, innovative enablers in order to boost the village economy and living conditions.
We are proud of our local community which is very active and supportive of new initiatives. We have several associations organising activities and enabling dynamic communal lifestyle enjoyed by the villagers. We organise regular gatherings on matters that concern everyone and share news and issues of interest on social media.

Lighthouse in Rural Businesses

The ‘smartness’ for Raudanmaa means to be a service-oriented, innovative village where daily life runs smoothly. Their goal is to keep the rural village area alive and to preserve the distinctive physical and cultural environment and heritage created by the communal and traditional way of life in the village as well as as to bring new innovative enablers to boost the village economy and living conditions. The target of the Raudanmaa community development has been to regain services and bring new businesses to Raudanmaa village area. The idea is to offer a communal space for different services, hobbies and meetings and create an attractive educational and tourist attraction to bring visitors to the village.

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Factsheet of Raudanmaa

Country

Finland

Type

sparsely populated areas

Degree of urbanization

Town or suburb

population of 600

Check out the village strategy:

Smart Village STrategy of Raudanmaa

Village Solutions

Smart Village Hall planning project

One key project that we are now working on is a smart village hall - a multi-service centre for various operators and user groups that would serve as the main hub for activities and services to the residents and visitors in the area. The planning work has started with idea gathering from all villagers and continues 2019-5/2020 with more detailed planning to create a concrete ground plan, action plan and budget and funding plan for the project

Living

Kautiala water co-operative

Water co-operative was founded by the villagers to meet the water legislation requirements around lakeside areas and to get fresh water to area where there typically is a lot of metals in the bored well water. The water and sewage pipelines were built during 2011-2012 and the co-operative has now 143 active members.

Environment

Raudanmaa optical fibre network project

The optical fibre network was built by a common village co-operative during 2017-2018 with now almost 100 joint owners. The project was funded by local LAG and the owners

Mobility & connectivity

Contact Information

Raudanmaa Village Association,

https://www.raudanmaa.com/raudanmaan-kylayhdistys-ry/

Huhtanen Mirka, mirka@leona.fi