Welcome to SEMPRE - Social Empowerment in Rural Areas

SEMPRE is a three-year transnational cooperation project that is jointly carried out by 16 partner organisations from the Baltic Sea Region. The aim is to explore innovative forms of social service delivery in rural areas, based on the idea of empowering service users. With this website we invite you to get to know our project and the partnership. Please visit "Current project activities" to find out what is going on in SEMPRE right now!

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“Locally produced joy of life” – A micro project with older adults in Ostrobothnia, Finland

Published: 2018-01-16

The SEMPRE partner Novia University of Applied Sciences works with older adults as our focus group in the SEMPRE project. During last year, a micro project called “Locally Produced Joy of Life”, was developed together with older adults and social service producers in the municipality of Korsholm/Mustasaari.

"Give, exchange, donate" - A micro project with single parents in Lithuania

Published: 2017-11-07

Halfway through the lifetime of the transnational project SEMPRE, the activities of the micro projects gained momentum in many partnership countries including Lithuania. On the first weekend of autumn, a micro project was started in Jurbarkas town.

Contact

Lead Partner:
Diaconie of Schleswig-Holstein
Project coordinator: Doris Scheer / scheer(at)diakonie-sh.de
Project assistant: Sabine Thommessen / s.thommessen(at)diakonie-sh.de

Project Communication:
REM Consult Lang + Partner, Hamburg
Hauke Siemen / sempre(at)rem-consult.eu

About SEMPRE

"SEMPRE brings power to empowerment"

SEMPRE is a project on social innovation and empowerment of disadvantaged groups in rural areas of the Baltic Sea Region.

The project is part-financed by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund) under the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme.