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

Using RDP support to establish an agricultural holding, purchase agricultural machinery and launch a young farmer’s career .

An agricultural company used EAFRD funding to strengthen its production of green asparagus and increase its share of the national and European market.

In order to improve the economic performance of his holding, a young farmer received support to increase the cultivated land and to build an irrigated greenhouse for the production of vegetables.

The largest inter-territorial cooperation project in Finland for 2014-2020, aims to promote cultural heritage as a vehicle for tourism development.

Punkalaidun municipality conducted a feasibility study for setting up a biogas plant producing energy from manure, which resulted in an investment decision.

A start-up business in Finland used RDP financing to carry out a feasibility study which helped lower the risks in upscaling their production capacity of biocomposites.

A farm producing flowers used RDP support to purchase new equipment and a tractor, thus achieving its goal to enhance and diversify its production.

The Finnish Natural Resources Institute used EAFRD funding to develop the production of mushrooms for food and medicine to give forest owners an alternative income source.