Capacity Building Tools

On-line Tools

Your Rural Net (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

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

Rural youth job market, Estonia
Ergani CentreErgani Centre (Women Resource Centre), Greece
Observatory of young entrepreneurship in agriculture (OIGA) , Italy
Observatory of Female Enterprise and Labour in agriculture (ONILFA) , Italy
National Atlas of Young farmers, Italy
National Atlas of Female entrepreneurs, 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 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, 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

Project example:

Interreg IIIC project “PRAXIS: Making rural entrepreneurship work” Praxis, 15 rural entrepreneurs tell their stories! Belgium, Flanders 2007

How to get young people to love the land. Video in English.