Self-sustainable Digital Islands

Island regions share a set of specific challenges linked to their particular geography. Limited accessibility, lack of economic diversity, restricted availability of health, education and public services, brain-drain. These factors leave islands vulnerable and dependent on support and facilities of the mainland.

In this cooperation project we challenge this core-periphery relationship by activating and accelerating the potential of digitisation in all socio-economic dimensions of island regions.

Our aim is to share and apply digital approaches and solutions that can bring positive change to island societies and economies, in the fields of: Work, Education, Health, Tourism, Climate Resilience, Nature Conservation and Governance.

Fryslân Province (NL) is home to the Wadden Sea islands. We are looking for other European island regions that want to empower their islands to be proactive designers of their own future economy, society and population to become self-sustainable digital islan