Projects & Practice

Sylva Nurseries: Grading machine for forest and hedging plants

Keywords:: Digitisation, Farm restructuring/modernisation, Forestry, Rural business, Rural Inspiration Awards: nominees
Countries:: Belgium

CAP funds help develop an innovative forest and hedging plant grading machine.

The start-up of the Kring boutique in the Hageland region of Flanders

Keywords:: Entrepreneurship, Job creation, LEADER/CLLD, Social inclusion
Countries:: Belgium

A social enterprise used LEADER funding to set up a stylish boutique selling quality second-hand items, supporting both reuse and the long-term unemployed.

Slow Trips - Austria

Keywords:: Information & promotion activities, Inter-territorial/Transnational cooperation, LEADER/CLLD, Rural Inspiration Awards: nominees, Tourism
Countries:: Austria, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Sweden

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.

Online tool for hiking in the Brabantse Kouters area

Keywords:: LEADER/CLLD, Protected areas, Tourism
Countries:: Belgium

Cooperation to develop an online tool and on-site infrastructure.

The Flourishing Destinations approach

Keywords:: Cooperation, Inter-territorial/Transnational cooperation, LEADER/CLLD, Sustainability, Tourism
Countries:: Belgium, Romania, United Kingdom

Communities in Romania, Flanders (Belgium) and Scotland worked collectively to create a model for community-led sustainable tourism development.

Åsbo Gård – using biogas to produce electricity and heating

Keywords:: Animal husbandry, Climate change adaptation, Energy efficiency, Environmental sustainability, Family farming, GHG & ammonia emissions, Renewable energy
Countries:: Sweden

A dairy family farm in Sweden invested in a biogas powered generator and a storage facility for substrates in order to become self-sufficient through the use of green energy.

The ‘Point Vert’ experience - test areas for beginners in market gardening

Keywords:: Advisory services, Entrepreneurship, LEADER/CLLD, Organic farming, Vocational training & skills acquisition
Countries:: Belgium

Creating a testing area for young entrepreneurs wishing to work in organic market gardening or horticulture, where they can receive training and advice.

Hedgerows: natural capital for agriculture, nature and landscape

Keywords:: Agriculture, Climate change adaptation, LEADER/CLLD, Natural resources, Nature conservation, Renewable energy, Short supply chains & local markets
Countries:: Belgium

Developing an area-specific vision on hedgerows and coaching farmers to manage and integrate hedgerows into their farming activities.

Producing green energy from pig manure

Keywords:: Animal husbandry, Animal welfare, Climate change adaptation, Competitiveness, Energy efficiency, Farm restructuring/modernisation, GHG & ammonia emissions
Countries:: Belgium

Developing a new and practical system to manage pig manure more efficiently, as a means to significantly reduce NH3 emissions and produce green energy.

Aardbeitrayveld - Elevated trays for strawberries

Keywords:: Bioeconomy, Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Rural Inspiration Awards: nominees
Countries:: Belgium

Elevated growing trays and the automation of some management tasks has enabled strawberry production to be less reliant on external inputs and to re-use irrigation water.