Projects & Practice

A CAP-funded project to raise awareness about the role of agriculture in the Bourtanger Moor Nature Park and increase direct sales of regional products.

Setting up a toy museum in a small island village to provide children with access to cultural activities and to stimulate the local economy.

Developing a digital platform and a setting up a meeting place to ensure the local supply and socialising needs of the village of Remmesweiler. 

Setting up an inter-generational cooperative, bringing generations together to help each other and share their knowledge and skills. 

The aim of the project was to secure a supply of quality regional products in shops in small villages in the SPESSART LEADER area, and by so doing to develop shops’ regional products offer and enhance their long-term sustainability.
 

The project aimed to develop a cargo bike delivery service in the town of Burgsteinfurt that would benefit local people, local retailers and the environment. The service enjoyed ever-increasing demand over the project period with the participation of 15 retailers.
 

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.
 

HofladenBOX is an online marketplace where customers can order products directly from more than 60 different farmers in the Fürth district.
 

In response to increasing demand for wood fuel, a wood processing company in Greece, used support from the LEADER measure to set up a new pellet production line.

A dairy cooperative used LEADER support to set up a biorefinery plant for recovering energy from whey.