LINC stands for Leader Inspired Network Community, an initiative of Local Action Groups and Network Support Units.
Projects & Practice

SILTA supports entrepreneurship among young people by providing a cooperative structure through which they can grow their business ideas and receive training, mentoring and peer support.

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

A project to give a voice to rural youth, to hear and publish their stories and to make them visible in society and its decision-making process.

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

Using digital technologies to re-establish the connection between young people and forests.

A Finnish NGO used EAFRD funding in a transnational project to exchange and develop best practices for integrating immigrants and refugees in rural areas.

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

A small Finnish start-up company developed nutritional supplements based on traditional herbs and plants from Lapland.