Projects & Practice

Setting up a ‘mobile social grocery’ where users will pay a low price for products, and may also choose free products, improving accessibility, reducing iscolation and giving families a more ‘human’ experience.

Promoting family care services for the elderly in sparsely populated regions in Lapland and Koillismaa.

The project focuses on improving access to agricultural land for new farmers and on adapting conventional agriculture to new agricultural systems based on the production or maintenance of biodiversity through profitable and innovative practices.

Green Care projects on family farms offer social services close to home in rural areas. They increase the quality of life for people, secure and create jobs while also helping to preserve small-scale agriculture and forestry.
 

A new participatory approach for increasing landowners’ knowledge on how to manage drainage ditches that play a key role in Swedish agriculture.

Communities coming together to collaboratively develop locally suited, innovative actions to mitigate climate change in rural Finland.
 

A project to help keep elderly people living at home safe and happy.

A community centre used support from the rural development programme to enhance its services and premises in order not to exclude people with Dementia.

The Walloon RDP supports the provision of quality healthcare services for ageing inhabitants of rural areas in Belgium.

Set up an operational group to test different practices for optimal catch crop management and assess their efficiency in reducing nitrogen and carbon emissions.