Projects & Practice

EAFRD support enabled a pair of entrepreneurs to harness their experience to establish a wooden toy manufacturing business, stimulating diversified economic activity and creating jobs in a rural area.

Using RDP support to develop and test a prototype mobile solar power station that can produce clean energy at any location without needing any fixed infrastructure.

A small family forestry business used RDP support to acquire new machinery that would enable it to respond to the increasing demand for forest services.

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 used RDP support to set up a micro district heating system to produce heating from wood biomass and at the same time expand its leisure and tourism facilities.

Responding to clients’ needs by offering new integrated veterinary services using a mobile laboratory.

Financed by the Romanian rural development programme, a small patisserie and confectionary workshop upscaled its business by constructing a new building to increase its production capacity and offer utility areas to customers.

A Finnish NGO used EAFRD funds to develop a network of nature-based service providers  and activities to support their development such as study trips and work groups.

A young and dynamic team of veterinary sector experts received EAFRD support to establish a private laboratory offering high quality veterinary services to farmers.

An integration coordinator was hired to help refugees mostly from Myanmar and Syria with language, housing, education, employment etc issues.