Sustainable Bornholm goals

Bornholm, like all other municipalities, needed to transform its society. However, you can’t simply transform a community of around 40,000 citizens and all that comes with it. To target the transition, the municipality, together with the citizens, set 8 specific goals that are in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This is how a resilient and sustainable island can be handed down to future generations.

By 2035, Bornholm’s regional municipality will be a sustainable and climate-friendly island community. The goals to ensure that Bornholm lives up to the vision are the 8 Bornholm goals. In this way, the UN’s global goals become local Bornholm goals that create engagement for citizens. The aim was to create a new green strategy that was alive. A strategy where citizens were on board.

We Do Democracy was a consultant on the project. We were responsible for designing the overall participation strategy that formed the foundation of the project. In addition, We Do Democracy was responsible for developing the concept for the Bornholm goals. Finally, we trained facilitators for, designed and ran the camp where the final goals were developed by the citizens of the Bornholm Regional Municipality.

• 8 goals were developed that made the UN Sustainable Development Goals local and relevant to the citizens of the Bornholm Regional Municipality.
• Citizens got right into the engine room of shaping their own sustainable future. This made the strategy vibrant and locally rooted, which was reflected in the website brightgreenisland.dk.