Practical Model The practical model includes steps taken during the five-year process to engage citizens, vision a sustainable future, determine current conditions, and create an action plan and choose appropriate implementation tools to change from current conditions to the vision. The five linchpins of the Sustainable Robertsfors theoretical process should guide each one of the practical steps below. Trainings & Education Sustainable Robertsfors began by educating all citizens, through meetings, discussions, trainings, workshops and seminars of all sorts. This included public meetings, business education programs, trainings for municipal employees, and seminars for community groups such as educators at local schools and the youth forum. Vision 2020 Pathfinders, or process leaders, were identified early on in the process, one for each of the subprograms below, identified during the process. Each pathfinder has been responsible for creating some kind of working group of people around them to provide information and contact with the general sentiments of the public and other stakeholders, and to create the vision and identify the objectives and actions needed. The subprograms in Robertsfors included the following fifteen areas, all common categories in Swedish municipalities: 1. Children and Education 2. Youth 3. Elderly 4. Individuals and Families 5. Handicapped 6. Culture and Leisure 7. Local (Rural and Urban) Development 8. Waste 9. Energy 10. Infrastructure/Physical Planning 11. Tourism 12. Food 13. Forestry 14. Other General Business Development 15. Purchasing & Procurement Each pathfinder was responsible for engaging members of their community to create visions of a Sustainable Robertsfors in 20 and 50 years. Each pathfinder was trained in the process models, and each has found their own way to engage people and plan for the future. Current Conditions Analysis Assessing the current conditions was completed in Robertsfors through a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats), a process also led by the pathfinders. Developing Common Objectives Once the vision is in place and current conditions are understood, the creative community process can be unleashed and the activities that the objectives and indicators that should be achieved within the vision time period can be chosen. Robertsfors pathfinders were again in charge of choosing objectives and/or indicators for the 20 year vision, set at 2020 as the planning began in 2001. Action Plan and Activities Matrix The Action Plan is being created through the structure of subprograms and pathfinders, each pathfinder coordinating planning activities within their subprogram (listed above). This includes setting goals and deciding on the activities planned between now and 2010. Once each subgroup has a written description of their action plan, a comprehensive document - the Sustainable Robertsfors Action Plan - will compiled. This will lead to the next step of choosing activities that meet the common objectives within each subprogram and across subprograms, and planning when these activities will occur. This information will be used to create a large comprehensive matrix that shows all programs and activities part of the sustainable development plan and how they relate to the objectives. This action plan is to be a living plan that is annually changed through a democratic process that involves citizens, municipal employees, administration and politicians. The community-wide annual decision-making process will include a yearly April community-wide meeting for all citizens or community groups to have an opportunity to present ideas about how to change and add to the existing action program plan. This annual community meeting was tested in 2005, and was successful in engaging citizens and bringing new ideas to the community's attention. Suggestions and ideas raised at this meeting will be taken into consideration by subprogram pathfinders (process leaders), who will work closely with their working groups and other administration personnel from April through August to create a revised action plan and activities matrix. They will submit a new plan for their subprogram that will be reviewed by the municipal council in the fall and approved in November.