An initiative to promote young farmers participation entrepreneurship and innovation
for sustainable rural areas
Projects & Practice
A dedicated communications campaign to promote the launch of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) in Finland.
LINC stands for Leader Inspired Network Community, an initiative of Local Action Groups and Network Support Units.

Supporting co-operation and knowledge sharing to tackle eutrophication in a vulnerable lake system.

A project to give a voice to rural youth, to hear and publish their stories and to make them visible in society and its decision-making process.

A small, remote rural community of around 1 300 inhabitants in Finland launched a Digi-Hub for the elderly.

A marketing project to promote the high-quality Finnish oats to the international market and increase the income of small farms.

A study financed by the Finnish RDP aimed to find new digital solutions for making reindeer husbandry a more efficient and profitable business.

A start-up business in Finland used RDP financing to carry out a feasibility study which helped lower the risks in upscaling their production capacity of biocomposites.

A community broadband initiative delivered fast broadband access to hundreds of residents in a sparsely populated region of Kuhmo in eastern Finland.