More Togetherness
Village & Community
Strong Villages, Strong Community, Strong Germany! We promote village and community projects that enrich rural life and strengthen cohesion. Rural spaces as places of identity and solidarity.
Village and Community Projects – Let's tackle them together!
We provide ample state funds. These are investments in the future of rural areas!
Financial Support
- Village shops and pubs: Ensuring basic supply and creating meeting points for residents.
- Community facilities: Promotion of youth clubs, senior centers, multigenerational houses, libraries and sports facilities.
- Culture and leisure offers: Support for clubs, events and festivals to increase the attractiveness of village life.
- Ecological projects: Creation of parks, restoration of water bodies, sustainable agriculture and expansion of cycling paths.
Networking & Motivation
- Use "VisionOfGaia": Use the platform www.vogworld.de for nationwide networking and exchange between initiatives. Mutual inspiration and shared learning.
- Competitions and awards: Announcement of prizes for particularly successful projects to strengthen engagement and spread good ideas.
Sociological Aspects – Living in Community!
Cohesion & Identity
- Strengthen solidarity: Promotion of togetherness and creation of a deep sense of belonging. Together we are strong!
- Home & Rooting: Villages as important places of identity formation. We strengthen rural regions as anchor points in a globalized world.
Engagement & Attractiveness
- Civic Action: Promotion of personal responsibility. Citizens actively participate in shaping their living environment.
- Stop rural flight: Attractive rural spaces for young people and families. We want people to enjoy living and working in the countryside.
Additional aspects of rural renewal
Improve infrastructure
Investments in public transport, digital connectivity (high-speed internet), and modern energy supply. Rural regions must be well connected.
Connect villages
Promote cooperation between municipalities. Achieve more together through regional networks and collaborations.
Sustainable development
Promotion of development that takes into account ecological, economic and social aspects – livable for all future generations.
The community roadmap
- Launch funding programs: Immediate provision of state funds for village and community projects.
- "Vogworld" expand: Expansion of the platform www.vogworld.de for networking across Germany.
- Start competitions: Launch of the first nationwide competitions for local pioneer projects.
- Infrastructure offensive: Start of the renovation and expansion of transport and digital connectivity in rural areas.
- Promote facilities: Operational construction and operation of village shops, youth clubs, and senior centers.
- Ecological implementation: Financial support for parks and re-naturalization projects on site.
- Intermunicipal cooperation: Strengthening the networking of villages and collaboration between municipalities.
- Sustainability anchor: Anchoring the eco-social development as a standard of rural policy.
Justification of the time model
Funding programs and "Vogworld" immediately give villages the opportunity to realize.
Infrastructure and sustainable development are long-term goals that require continuous investment.