Projects & Practice

Support from the rural development programme for England enabled an entrepreneur to upgrade his ales brewing business.

Responding to clients’ needs by offering new integrated veterinary services using a mobile laboratory.

Financed by the Romanian rural development programme, a small patisserie and confectionary workshop upscaled its business by constructing a new building to increase its production capacity and offer utility areas to customers.

An inter-territorial cooperation project between 11 LEADER Local Action Groups in Greece used culture as a tool to raise understanding of the unfolding migrant crisis.

A Finnish NGO used EAFRD funding in a transnational project to exchange and develop best practices for integrating immigrants and refugees in rural areas.

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.

A young and dynamic team of veterinary sector experts received EAFRD support to establish a private laboratory offering high quality veterinary services to farmers.

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.

An integration coordinator was hired to help refugees mostly from Myanmar and Syria with language, housing, education, employment etc issues.