A management system for the LEADER approach and 13 new Local Action Groups (LAGs) were set up in May 2018 in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia following the completion of a bilateral project with Slovenia.
The European Network for Rural Development (ENRD) is the structure that brings together all the stakeholders aiming to achieve improved rural development results in the EU.
The network serves as a hub for the sharing of information about how Rural Development policy, programmes, projects and other initiatives are working in practice and how they can be improved to achieve more.
Explore the latest ENRD publications, including:
- EAFRD Projects Brochure on ‘Digital and Social Innovation in Rural Services’;
- EU Rural Review 26 on ‘Smart Villages: Revitalising Rural Services’;
- Autumn/winter 2017 edition of the Rural Connections Magazine featuring a special focus on 'Rural Proofing'.
Discover articles on:
- Synthesis of the Annual Implementation Reports submitted in 2017
- Taking stock of how Member States are monitoring and assessing their HNV farmland
- How NRNs can support evaluation activities
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Learn all about the major Cork 2.0 Rural Development Conference & Declaration and explore:
- A thematic focus on Cork 2.0 in the Autumn 2016 edition of the Rural Connections Magazine;
- A highlights summary of the event in a Special Edition ENRD Newsletter;
- The full text of the Declaration translated into 22 EU languages. ...
The main objective of the Guidelines is to provide a non-binding complement to other guidelines and offer advice to RDP evaluation stakeholders on how to carry out the evaluation activities for answering the common evaluation questions related to innovation.
Learn how a LEADER project stimulated economic development in a remote rural area in France by expanding its tourism potential with the inclusion of events and activities based around local arts and culture.
See more good practices for rural tourism in our Project Database.
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Last update: 05/07/2018
Explore a selection of good practice examples of social innovation in areas such as healthcare, rural networking and tourism development in Western Balkan rural areas in the latest brochure of the Horizon 2020 project SIMRA.
Last update: 03/07/2018
The first ever Balkan Rural Parliament took place on 26-28 June 2018 in Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia, under the heading ‘European perspective of rural communities of the Western Balkans and Turkey’.
Last update: 02/07/2018
Browse through our interactive online toolkit containing a range of materials – such as good practices, publications and various resources from ENRD events – intended to assist National Rural Network (NRN) support units in achieving their key tasks and objectives.
Last update: 29/06/2018
Watch our video on ‘smart villages’ – available in English, French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish – illustrating how local action and digitisation can improve basic services in rural areas.
