1st STAKEHOLDER GROUP MEETING HELD IN SWEDEN

The Swedish stakeholder group in the Microfuture project had its first meeting on 23 May. The meeting took place in Karlskoga. Anders Bro, Region Örebro County, told about the background of the project, its consortium, and upcoming activities. He also talked about how the stakeholder group will be involved in the continued work.

The presentation also touched upon the policy instrument – The Regional Development Strategy – the project is trying to improve. Since micro finance is an important topic for the stakeholders they are keen on learning more from the the other partners in the project consortium and were looking forward to the meeting in Bukarest.

The meeting was attended by Anna Fogel (Municipality of Örebro), Nils Varg (Municipality of Karlskoga), Caroline Daly (Örebro Antidiscrimination Agency), Mari Cedervall (Coordination Agency Karlskoga-Degerfors), Sofia Tungfelt (Möckeln Associations), Lotta Karlsson-Andersson (Activa Foundation), Anders Bro (Region Örebro County), Johanna Ek (Region Örebro County), Anders Johansson (Coompanion), Helena Lundell och Mona Hedfeldt (Region Örebro County).