Project part-financed by the European Union (ERDF + TACIS) within the BSR INTERREG III B NP programme HINTERLAND Vitality Check Examples from typology: Kivyliai ­ Type Nr. 9 KIVYLIAI Inhabitants: 400 Municipality: Akmen district County: Siauliai Vorderland distance: 12 km. A voice from Kivyliai: " ... We would like to keep and justify the name of exemplary village." Head of towniship Romualdas Kulvinskis Project part-financed by the European Union (ERDF + TACIS) within the BSR INTERREG III B NP programme We are type Nr. 9! What does it mean for our village and what do we have to do? Strengthen the strengths! Demography · Good surrounding reduces mobility of people. Economy · 54,7 percent of working people work in agriculture, it is necessary to develop no traditional activities. · Connection with Vorderland must be improve by improving roads conditions (12 km of road). It will help to attract people to live in village · Increase accessibility of IT · Not traditional activities were started to use in farms. It is necessary to continue this.. Social life · Tidy homesteads. · Very nice and tidy surrounding. · Active community. Reduce the risks! · People are leaving the modern settlement of Kivyliai which was established before some years. · In the village big unemployment, in agriculture works small part of people · Bad connection (infrastructure) with Vorderland, it is necessary to improve it. New generation Tidy surrounding Scenery of Kivyliai