Projects & Practice

A project that promotes the use of renewable energy to improve air quality through training and awareness raising.

The Rural Broadband project is a national intervention to close the digital divide in remote and sparsely populated rural ‘white areas’.

An integrated project in Italy supported farmers to add value to the local production of wheat and wheat flour, and thus become more competitive.

A number of arable farms formed a consortium to explore the possibility of growing oleaginous crops and adding value to the local production.

EAFRD funding helped expand and develop a social enterprise in rural Scotland. A new training centre is built, a visitor centre expanded and more jobs for adults with special needs created.

In Sweden, local non-profit associations, encouraged and supported by the public sector, are carrying out the building of broadband infrastructure in the countryside.

A local association used EAFRD support to get broadband coverage in a rural area which was previously lacking any access to internet or telephone connection.

Setting up a house locating system in the rural areas of Formentera island, Spain, made it easier for emergency services and other service providers to access isolated rural homes.

The Cywain Agriculture Project is an agri-food support scheme to develop innovative ideas in adding value to Welsh produce.

Welsh rural development competition inspires innovation among young sheep farmers.