Botkyrka is one of Sweden’s youngest and most international municipalities. The fifth biggest municipality in the Stockholm county with 80 000 inhabitants, Botkyrka has exciting prospects for development.

To meet the challenges of the future, Botkyrka needs to forge together with its inhabitants and other stakeholders a coherent concept of the role which the municipality,and its inhabitants, can and will play in a growing metropolitan region.

Botkyrka municipality has launched the production of a series of district-based long-term programmes for sustainable development, prepared as collaborative efforts of various Botkyrka administrations in dialogue with people who live and work in the different districts. In this process the concept of co-responsibility fits very well. Participation in the TOGETHER network offers interesting opportunities to try out, compare and develop further methodological issues related to local development and a shared concern for the well-being of all.

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The city of Dębica, situated in South-Eastern Poland, near the Slovak border, is a modern town with 47000 inhabitants which combines the charm of history with its industrial character. Well located between Germany and Ukraine, Dębica plays an important role in domestic and international communications system. The most important part of the active population (mainly young people) work in sectors of industry and construction. Despite this, unemployment affects around 25% of young people. Dębica’s participation in the project TOGETHER aims at :

• facilitating the access to career placement for young people
• modernizing the Health System
• filling in the lack of nursing for elder people and support for single and harassed mothers

Salaspils Municipality is situated in the central part of Latvia, on the periphery of the capital Riga. The town is surrounded by a rural area and its history is closely related to the Riga hydroelectric station, that literally contributed to its birth.

The municipality intends to engage in this process in order to define social inclusion and well-being of all, largely involving the different parts of the population, especially those people suffering from the risk of social exclusion, such as the unemployed, poor families, students, the elderly, large families and single mothers.

The main challenges of the Municipality in this project are:

• The improvement of social services;
• helping to launch a day care centre for people with disabilities;
• reducing the cost of heating, which is one of the highest in Latvia;
• better integration in the city’s life of the Russian-speaking population, who represent 57 % of Salaspils population;
• development of the economic sector and helping to create new businesses.

Pergine Valsugana is a municipality of the Autonomous Province of Trento in North-Eastern Italy. The city is the youngest municipality of Italy, with a strong historical tradition of cooperation, many cooperatives in agriculture, industry and handcraft and in social services.

The aim of the City of Pergine is to use the methodology of coresponsibility in order to test and integrate an existing Social Plan. The Local Support Group works on promoting the active participation of the citizens and believe that this new approach will further spread all over the Province. The main challenges of the city are :

• implementing the actions of the Social Plan and of the Youth Plan
• developing public transportation
• promoting innovation in the economic sector