Projects & Practice

A project that supports the integration of young immigrants into Swedish society and is organised by young immigrants themselves.

SILTA supports entrepreneurship among young people by providing a cooperative structure through which they can grow their business ideas and receive training, mentoring and peer support.

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 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.

An ecovillage was developed on Sweden’s Gotland island using EAFRD funding, providing a model for environmentally-friendly accommodation, waste water treatment, food and energy production. The site is also a template for non-consumerist approaches.

A Finnish NGO used EAFRD funds to develop a network of nature-based service providers  and activities to support their development such as study trips and work groups.

Thanks to a LEADER supported investment, a shoe repair and manufacturing enterprise constructed its own production facility benefiting from savings on rent and easier access to the market.

EAFRD funding enabled setting up a sawn timber production company in northeast Greece that employs modern equipment and contributes to the local economy by using local resources.

A small Finnish start-up company developed nutritional supplements based on traditional herbs and plants from Lapland.