Projects & Practice

E-bike charge stations generate new rural tourism potential in Austria.
 

An interterritorial cooperation project to address the challenges of outmigration and ageing in rural areas by investing in new technology solutions. 

Slow Trips unites partners from six EU Member States to communicate and market innovative tourism products characterised by sustainability and participation and to attract new target groups of tourists who are dissatisfied with superficial sightseeing.
 

Global Eco – Inno Eco is a transnational cooperation project aimed at boosting the green economy and sustainable businesses in the participating rural areas.

As the environmental measures under the RDP in 2007-2013 were not taken up well by the farming community, LEADER was used to promote biodiversity projects across the Åland Islands (Finland) in the programming period 2014-2020.

Sustainable development is a cross-cutting theme in LEADER Ravakka’s (Finland) current local development strategy. The aim is to encourage local organisations to combat climate change by becoming more active in implementing environmentally friendly projects. 

A TNC cooperation project in which partner areas with long coastlines worked together to strike a balance between protecting the environment and opening up their areas to tourists in a sustainable way.

A LEADER project that promoted the use of the local natural heritage as a lever for sustainable local development.

An intercultural youth event that allows young people from neighboring countries to learn about each other’s language and culture and to exchange experiences.

A transnational cooperation project on converting abandoned parish houses to accommodate tourists.