Projects & Practice

Developing a traditional forest education facility in Slovakia

Keywords:: Culture, Education & lifelong learning, Environmental protection, Forestry, Job creation, Youth
Countries:: Slovakia

Harnessing forest education and culture as a rural development resource.

Young Farmer Vladislav Paľurik

Keywords:: Agriculture, Competitiveness, Family farming, Job creation, Young farmers
Countries:: Slovakia

CAP funds support generation renewal in rural Slovakia.

Mobiiliaurinkovarasto - Solar energy on wheels

Keywords:: Climate, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Renewable energy
Countries:: Finland

Using RDP support to develop and test a prototype mobile solar power station that can produce clean energy at any location without needing any fixed infrastructure.

Alvesta Biogas – expanding its production capacity

Keywords:: Agriculture, Climate change adaptation, Environmental sustainability, Renewable energy
Countries:: Sweden

Support from the rural development programme was used to buy new machinery and expand the production capacity of a biogas plant.

Installing a small-scale anaerobic digester to produce green energy

Keywords:: Agriculture, Bioeconomy, Energy efficiency, GHG & ammonia emissions, Renewable energy
Countries:: Belgium

A dairy farm in Wallonia invested in renewable energy production from manure and produced milk using a more environmental friendly process.

A feasibility study to upscale a biocomposite production line

Keywords:: Bioeconomy, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Job creation, Rural business
Countries:: Finland

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.