An initiative to promote young farmers participation entrepreneurship and innovation
for sustainable rural areas
Projects & Practice
Supporting regional planning using transnational cooperation, with a particular focus on local public-private partnerships

Development of an online platform and an app that allows beekeepers to more efficiently maintain their intervention records and exchange know-how.

A company that was focused on field crops diversified its activities by setting up a business incubator to boost the economic development of an area with high unemployment.

A bakery company producing high quality traditional bakery products used support from the rural development programme to modernise and expand its production capacity.

A cultural association in remote rural Latvia used LEADER support to foster co-creation in the local community, resulting in a museum exhibition that is unique in the Baltic States.

An association working in a remote village in rural Latvia, used RDP support to set up a wood and glass workshop thus creating new employment and income opportunities for the local people.

A forest association promoting forest environmental education used RDP support to create a series of high quality educational material in order to attract the interest of children and their families.

An ambitious young farmer used RDP support to create a new niche product and a touristic attraction out of his produce of mushrooms that were not suitable for the market.

The Slovakian agricultural cooperative Panovce used EAFRD support to upgrade its dairy facilities and equipment, raising welfare standards and improving production.