Capacity Building Tools
On-line Tools
General On-line Tools
- YOURuralNET (web community for young farmers), Italy
- Standard online system for the preparation of Business Plans (Axis 1, eg measure 112, 121), Italy
- Small and Medium Sized enterprises: Social Economy, EC, Enterprise and Industry
- INRA: French National Institute for Agricultural Research, France
- CERDD: French Center of Resources for sustainable development, France
- ESSRG: Environmental Social Science Research Centre, research on small-scale farming, Hungary
- South West Rural Development Gateway
- CERGE: European Information and Resource Centre for Employers'Alliances
- Menter Môn, Wales, UK
- Vale of Glamorgan Council, Business Support, Wales, UK
- Ceredigion IT Mentoring, Wales, UK
- Advice and support for Pembrokeshire businesses, Wales, UK
- Countryside Alliance Awards, UK
- “Praxis: Making Rural Entrepreneurship Work” Interreg IIIC project, 2004
Local Food
- Internet portal for food SMEs, Denmark
- National Resource Centre for Local Food, Sweden
- LIPROCO: French research project on local food, France
- AMAP: Association pour le maintien d'une agriculture paysanne ('Association for the Support of Local Agriculture'), France
- FAAN: Facilitating Alternative Agro-food Networks
- European CoordinationVia Campesina
- Slow Food
- Glasu, Taste of Powys, Wales, UK
- Making Local Food Work, UK
Social entrepreneurship
- Rede Europeia de Apoio ao Empreendedorismo (European Network to Entrepreneurship Support), Portugal
- Ulster Community Investment Trust Ltd (UCIT), UK Northern Ireland
- DETI and Social Economy, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, UK Northern Ireland
- The New Heroes
- Social Economy Network, Northern Ireland, UK
- Adventa- Supporting Community Enterprise, Wales, UK
- Supporting Community Enterprise in Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
- Business in the Community, Rural services and enterprise, Wales, UK
- Free management library: Social enterprise
- Ashoka, Global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs
Social Services
- So Far, Social Services in Multifunctional Farms
- International Community of Practice - Farming for Health
- COST Action 866: Green Care in Agriculture
- National Care Farming Initiative, United Kingdom [PDF
] - Réseau Astra - Agriculture Sociale et Thérapeutique en Rhône Alpes, France
- Austrian Council for Agricultural Engineering and Rural Development
Local Financing
- UCIT: Ulster Community Investment Trust Ltd
- Glasu,Financial Support for Micro Businesses, Wales, UK
- Rosebud Business Solutions, Lancashire County Council, UK
- EIB: European Investment Bank support for SMEs
- EMN: European Microfinance Network
- Rural Impulse Fund II
- Incofin, Worldwide investments in microfinance
- International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group
- FEMIP: Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership
- EFSE: European Fund for South-East Europe
- CGAP Microfinance gateway
Inclusion of specific target groups
- Rural youth job market, Estonia
- Ergani Centre (Women Resource Centre), Greece
- OIGA: Observatory of young entrepreneurship in agriculture, Italy
- ONILFA: Observatory of Female Enterprise and Labour in agriculture, Italy
- National Atlas of Young farmers [PDF
], Italy - National Atlas of Female entrepreneurs [PDF], Italy
- Vale of Glamorgan Council, Creative Rural Communities helps to inspire young entrepreneurs, Wales, UK
- Rural Enterprise Bursary, Young People's Enterprise, Wales, UK
- Job Club Paves the Way, Portal for job-seekers and businesses looking to fill short-term and part time vacancies, Wales, UK
- WIRE: Women in Rural Enterprise Supporting Women in Business, Wales, UK
- Seed network, the home of women's enterprise, Wales, UK
- PRIME Cymru, Initiative for Mature Enterprise, UK
- SALTO-YOUTH: Support, Advanced Learning and Training Opportunities within the European YOUTH programme
Forestry
- Forestry measures in the EU, European Commission, DG Agriculture and Rural Development
- EU Forest policies, European Commission, DG Environment
- Forest Europe - Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe
- Forestry Chart, LAG/Pays Adour Landes Ocèanes Aquitaine, France (in French)
- Coed Cymru, Wales, UK
- Sustainable tourism project promoted by the LAG Asociación GDR Grupo de Desarrollo Rural de Los Alcornocales), Andalusia, ES (in English and Spanish)
- EFIP: England Forestry Industry Partnership [PDF], England, UK
- Rural Development Initiatives, including the two woodland initiatives, Northwoods and Yorwoods, England UK
- European Forestry Institute
- EFIMED: Mediterranean Regional Office of the European Forestry Institute
- UNECE/FAO Forestry and Timber Section
- CEPF: Confederation of European Forest Owners
- Nordic Family Forestry, website of the Nordic forests owners association
- FERN: Non-governmental organisation of the forestry sector
- Great Britain Forestry Commission
- IUFRO: International Union of Forest Research Organisations
- EUSTATFOR: European State Forest Association, EU organisation of state-owned forest companies, enterprises and agencies
