The aim of the preparatory project is to produce a main project application called ‘Arctic Apps for Health and Wellbeing’- Online Guidance Applications and Practices Promoting Health Literacy in the Northern Periphery. The goal is to create an ewpowering, self-care supportive “mHealth and Welfare Box” application for citizens and an “eHealth and Welfare Card” application for communicating with professionals’. This will be a transnational and multidisciplinary effort involving researchers, educational organizations, public service authorities and ICT enterprises.