Improving quality of life in small towns

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Whilst metropolitan areas are growing or at least having a stable number of inhabitants middle and smaller towns are shrinking, sometimes with serious rate. Along with this, these towns have obsolescence and workforce problem, because of the migration regards especially young and well educated people. The reasons for this are the absence of jobs, poor quality of infrastructure and connectivity to the next metropolitan area. Through the insufficient access to the public transport, there is no adequate network between the smaller towns and their peripherals. Therefore these areas are less attractive as residence for daily commuters and for labour intensive companies. Through the cooperation of local and regional institutions responsible for the development of small towns and in rural areas, Qualist will give positive examples to be evaluated, demography oriented solutions to be tested and concrete perspectives for typical CE small towns in rural areas to be elaborated.

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