Poland’s RDP allocated a ‘lump sum’ funding package for LEADER Local Actions Groups to help them prepare their Local Development Strategies for the 2014-2020 period.
Projects & Practice
An initiative to promote young farmers participation entrepreneurship and innovation
for sustainable rural areas
Supporting regional planning using transnational cooperation, with a particular focus on local public-private partnerships

Development of an online platform and an app that allows beekeepers to more efficiently maintain their intervention records and exchange know-how.

A LAG organised a series of tailored workshops to combat digital exclusion among people over 50 years old.

Organising bicycle rallies as a means of promoting social interaction and integration.

A cultural association in remote rural Latvia used LEADER support to foster co-creation in the local community, resulting in a museum exhibition that is unique in the Baltic States.

An association working in a remote village in rural Latvia, used RDP support to set up a wood and glass workshop thus creating new employment and income opportunities for the local people.

A forest association promoting forest environmental education used RDP support to create a series of high quality educational material in order to attract the interest of children and their families.

An ambitious young farmer used RDP support to create a new niche product and a touristic attraction out of his produce of mushrooms that were not suitable for the market.