The outline is ready, the coloring can begin. The general assembly of the water board, the Zeeland municipal councils and Provincial States have today received the Outline of the Strategic Agenda Zeeland 2050 National-Region. This is the starting point for further cooperation between Zeeland and the cabinet.
The national government and region work together on equal footing to improve the quality of life, living and working of residents and entrepreneurs in Zeeland. ‘Together with the regions we work with strategic agendas to realize major challenges in an area integrally and jointly’, states the coalition agreement Aan de slag. The outline offers a unique opportunity to concretely fill in that intention.
After the starting document in April 2025 and the Future Perspective Zeeland 2050 in July last year, there is now a joint document from the national government and region. Now the representatives are up. In the coming months, States, councils and general assemblies will provide their daily administrations with frameworks and views for further elaboration with the national government. In the third quarter of 2026, the definitive Strategic Agenda Zeeland 2050 National-Region must be adopted. The starting point is that a stronger Zeeland makes the Netherlands stronger.
The three growth engines strong villages and vibrant cities (housing, accessibility, health), magnet for talent (education, culture) and clean energy port (nuclear, port and industry, defense) and a solid foundation (nature restoration, climate and water safety, freshwater) are elaborated in eleven agendas with multiple (key) projects, such as a leap in housing construction, a nuclear academy, the shipyard of the future and a safe delta.
The final chapter describes how the national government and Zeeland already cooperate, which follow-up steps will be taken in 2026 and how the administrative cooperation could look.