Projects & Practice

E-bike charge stations generate new rural tourism potential in Austria.
 

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

A young farmer created a new business model that combines organic farming and environmental protection with job creation and socially inclusive educational services.  

A voluntary rescue team used LEADER support to obtain equipment to enable the volunteers to increase the range of incidents they can respond to, as well as to raise awareness among the local population about volunteering. 

The project converted a mobile container into a spectacular learning and meeting space to cooperate with companies and young people and improve job opportunities.
 

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.
 

A family farm converted to organic lavender farming in order to diversify their offer of products and services in an environmentally sustainable way.

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.

This case study looks at social innovation, funding and resources in LEADER.

Organic and biodynamic farms cooperate to jointly acquire conservation tillage equipment (subsoilers and no till seeding machine) to enhance soil quality, reduce pollution and maximise their soil’s capacity to act as a carbon sink