Projects & Practice

A LEADER-funded knowledge transfer project about vegetable cultivation, aiming to increase the sustainability and resilience of local communities.

Slow Trips unites partners from six EU Member States to communicate and market innovative tourism products characterised by sustainability and participation and to attract new target groups of tourists who are dissatisfied with superficial sightseeing.
 

Revitalising a declining rural community by developing a sustainable ecovillage through learning and networking. 

Communities in Romania, Flanders (Belgium) and Scotland worked collectively to create a model for community-led sustainable tourism development.

A TNC cooperation project in which partner areas with long coastlines worked together to strike a balance between protecting the environment and opening up their areas to tourists in a sustainable way.

A transnational cooperation project to promote DIY solutions for renewable energy production in rural communities.
 

Piloting a tool that helps assess the impact potential and necessary points of improvement of LEADER projects, already during the project’s application phase.

An association used RDP support to turn the ‘disadvantages’ of long periods of cold and darkness in northern Sweden, into a unique selling point for tourism.

A project to enhance the facilities on a geological site, enable new visitor-based activities and attract more visitors who will spend more time in the area.

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