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.