Entrepreneurship for a Living Countryside
The Kamprad Family Foundation aims to strengthen the role of entrepreneurship in creating a living and longterm sustainable countryside. Enterprise, initiative, and new ideas are essential for enabling people to live, work, and thrive across the entire country — including areas beyond the larger cities.
The foundation views entrepreneurship in a broad perspective. It is not only about starting and running businesses, but also about people’s ability to identify opportunities, take responsibility, and turn ideas into action. In rural areas, this ability is particularly important, as local solutions, collaboration, and community engagement are often crucial for development and confidence in the future.
The Kamprad Family Foundation supports the development of knowledge that strengthens the conditions for entrepreneurship in rural areas. The aim is to contribute to new insights that deepen the understanding of the circumstances and opportunities present in the countryside and that can serve as a foundation for longterm sustainable development.
The foundation wants to contribute to a countryside that is socially, economically, environmentally, and culturally sustainable. This includes communities where people have access to livelihoods and social cohesion, where natural resources are used responsibly, and where knowledge and creativity are embraced as part of development.
The Kamprad Family Foundation seeks to support a living countryside that continues to grow, renew itself, and remains an attractive place to live and work — for current and future generations.