Projects & Practice

Introducing the Sámi food culture into public kitchens

Keywords:: Cooperation, Food & Drink, Local food, Rural business, Social inclusion
Countries:: Finland

Socially inclusive food supplies for the Swedish Sámi community.

Vertical integration on a cuniculture farm in Malta

Keywords:: Animal husbandry, Competitiveness, Energy efficiency, Product quality, Short supply chains & local markets
Countries:: Malta

A cuniculture farm used CAP funds to set up a new energy efficient meat processing unit in order to add value to its final product and improve the farm’s position in the value chain.

Rural Slovakia’s House of Folk Clothing

Keywords:: Culture, Job creation, Tourism
Countries:: Slovakia

Harnessing cultural heritage as a rural development tool in Slovakia.

Cooperation to establish a dairy supply chain in Slovakia

Keywords:: Animal husbandry, Competitiveness, Cooperation, Farm restructuring/modernisation, Job creation, Short supply chains & local markets
Countries:: Slovakia

A partnership between farms and a cooperative to modernise the production of dairy products and establish their own short supply chain.

Rural Working Hubs

Keywords:: Demography, Digitisation, Entrepreneurship, Inter-territorial/Transnational cooperation, LEADER/CLLD, Rural services
Countries:: Finland

Demonstrating the feasibility of rural working hubs in Finland and Ireland

Rural Future Makers project

Keywords:: Demography, Entrepreneurship, Local Development Strategy, Youth
Countries:: Finland

A Local Action Group (LAG) in Central Finland created a new network and the enabling conditions for young people to plan and implement their own local development ideas.

Natuurlijk heel leuk! - Naturally much fun!

Keywords:: Biodiversity, LEADER/CLLD, Migrants, Natural resources, Social inclusion
Countries:: The Netherlands

A project that aims to connect people with their local environment, food production and with each other.

ReWI Visions (Resource Wise Visions) - Finland

Keywords:: Bioeconomy, Entrepreneurship, Rural Inspiration Awards: nominees, Youth
Countries:: Finland

The ReWI project inspires young people to examine entrepreneurship from the perspective of the circular economy. The project has opened up a wide range of opportunities for young people, resulting in 40 new circular economy enterprises.

Global Eco – Inno Eco Circular Economy in the Countryside

Keywords:: Bioeconomy, Inter-territorial/Transnational cooperation, Knowledge transfer, LEADER/CLLD
Countries:: Estonia, Finland, Italy, Latvia, Portugal

Global Eco – Inno Eco is a transnational cooperation project aimed at boosting the green economy and sustainable businesses in the participating rural areas.

LEADER case study – Promoting the transition to a Green Economy

Keywords:: Environmental sustainability, LEADER/CLLD
Countries:: Finland

As the environmental measures under the RDP in 2007-2013 were not taken up well by the farming community, LEADER was used to promote biodiversity projects across the Åland Islands (Finland) in the programming period 2014-2020.