Voices from a bookstore
A project that creates an inclusive meeting place for young people in Lycksele, focusing on health, participation, and community engagement. Through conversations, culture, and popular education, young voices are raised on issues such as mental health, climate, human rights, and LGBTQI+.
Purpose and goals
The purpose of the project is:
to strengthen youth engagement and popular education through literature, culture, and public debate. By creating an inclusive platform for conversation and learning, the project aims to give young people a voice in societal development and promote participation in democratic processes.
The goal of the project is to:
– Conduct 15 lectures with authors and experts in social sustainability and societal issues
– Organize 40 activities such as workshops, discussions, and creative meetings
– Establish a podcast to spread the project's content digitally
– To develop a model and/or method that will be disseminated.
About the project
”Voices from a bookstore” is a project aimed at creating an inclusive meeting place for young people in Lycksele with a focus on health, participation, and belief in the future. Through popular education, conversations, workshops, and cultural activities, young voices are raised in the public debate – with a particular focus on mental health, climate issues, human rights, LGBTQI+, and indigenous issues. The project is based on collaboration between civil society, the municipality, the County Administrative Board, and the church and is carried out in Lycksele with dissemination to several municipalities in the Leader Lapland area.
The bookstore in Lycksele will be the arena where young people can express themselves, influence and organize themselves – for example through their own podcast, democratic conversations, a Pride festival and other activities that they themselves can shape.
From the Project Application
”The understanding of young people's living conditions should contribute to participating actors and target groups of the results, receiving better grounds for decisions and actions aimed at young women and men.”
About the project
Project period
2025-12-08 – Ongoing
Project owner
Lycksele Bookstore
Project Manager
Malin Ackermann
malin@lyckselebokhandel.se
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About financing
Granted project support
456,065 kronor
Co-financing from Leader Lapland 2030
224,629 kronor
Total financing
680,694 kronor
In addition to the above, the project estimates to contribute with voluntary engagement valued at approximately 304,000 SEK.
Incoming EU funds have been granted from:
Agricultural Fund
LAG board's decision justification
The LAG board decided to prioritize the application as the project clearly addresses the needs of young people for an inclusive meeting place for dialogue, learning, and engagement in societal issues. By developing an innovative collaboration model, social sustainability, belief in the future, and young people's mental health are promoted in line with the Leader Lapland 2030 strategy.