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European Landowners Organisation (ELO) |
Institution overall role: The ELO represents a large number of rural family business and enterprises as well as individual actors in Europe involved in agriculture, forestry and cork, renewable energy, wine production, wildlife and cultural landscape management, hunting and fishing as well as water and waste treatment. ELO promotes a sustainable and prosperous countryside and increasing awareness of environmental and agricultural issues.
Role and priorities/objectives in knowledge transfer & innovation: Engaging various stakeholders, ELO develops policy recommendations and programmes of action. It organises interdisciplinary meetings gathering together key actors from the rural sector and policy makers at the local, regional, national and European levels. ELO targets its work and actions towards eight major issues of European importance:
- Environment
- Renewable energy
- Water
- Agricultural and rural development
- Status of private property and companies
- Forestry
- Enlargement
- Trade
Research & innovation links: Projects ELO is involved with can be viewed by clicking on the ‘Projects’ button of the main website. A wide range of publications aimed at enhancing knowledge and innovation can be found in ELOs online library athttps://www.europeanlandowners.org/media/documents-and-publications/all.
Institutional networking linkages: ELO is based on a network of some 59 associations in the EU-27 and Candidate Countries, as well as established high-level contacts with institutions and field professionals. Links to members can be found at https://www.europeanlandowners.org/links/members
Homepage: https://www.europeanlandowners.org/
Contact details:
67 rue de Trèves,
1040 Bruxelles
B-Belgium
E-mail: elo@elo.org
