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Projects & Practice

Total results: 74.

Setting up a micro-fund in Västernorrland

Keywords:: Financial Instruments, LEADER/CLLD, Rural business, Rural SMEs
Countries:: Sweden

Setting up a micro-fund as an alternative way to provide guarantees or loans for small, local organisations.

ViciGAL - transformation of a former railway line into a green lane for cycling

Keywords:: LEADER/CLLD, Public goods, Rural services, Tourism
Countries:: Belgium

Supporting the preparatory work for the creation of a 41 km green lane linking up bends the Meuse river between the municipalities of Yvoir and Huy in Wallonia.

GAL’otte – fostering networking between citizens

Keywords:: Culture, LEADER/CLLD, Networking, Social inclusion
Countries:: Belgium

A mini-foodtruck called GAL’otte is fostering citizens’ exchanges and social cohesion in Pays de Herve, by preparing and baking pizza together with the citizens.

Culture as a Lever for Sustainable Development – an artistic response to the migrant crisis

Keywords:: Culture, Inter-territorial/Transnational cooperation, LEADER/CLLD, Migrants
Countries:: Greece

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.

Green arena

Keywords:: Diversification, Education & lifelong learning, Healthcare, Rural SMEs
Countries:: Sweden

On farm care is a new type of service which can help farms diversify while significantly contributing to a more natural rehabilitation process for people in need.

Academy on Tour

Keywords:: Advisory services, Innovation, LEADER/CLLD, Rural SMEs
Countries:: Belgium

An all-day bus tour to another country with 24 agri-food entrepreneurs and about ten experts and advisors has proved an innovative way of developing business ideas and the skills and confidence to implement them.

The Potato backyard, entrepreneurial training for immigrants

Keywords:: Education & lifelong learning, Job creation, LEADER/CLLD, Migrants
Countries:: Sweden

A small successful food market initiative in Sweden used EAFRD funding to help migrants develop their skills, find employment and set up their own business.

Broadband Fibre in Östra Bräcke

Keywords:: Broadband, Information & Communications Technology (ICT), Rural services, Smart Villages
Countries:: Sweden

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

Suderbyn - Community-led development of an ecovillage in Sweden

Keywords:: Bioeconomy, LEADER/CLLD, Nature conservation, Organic farming, Smart Villages, Tourism
Countries:: Sweden

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.

Exchanging good practices on integrating immigrants in rural areas across the EU

Keywords:: Inter-territorial/Transnational cooperation, LEADER/CLLD, Migrants, Social inclusion
Countries:: Austria, Finland, Sweden

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