EUROPEAN LEADER ASSOCIATION FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT
We are 33 members with more than 2 500 Local Action Groups from rural,coastal, urban and periurban Europe that believe that we are stronger together. Our vision is “A viable Europe through participatory democracy in all rural areas and beyond”!
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📢 Rural areas cover 80% of the EU’s territory but continue to be underfunded and overlooked. That’s why we launched the MyRuralFuture petition to secure a stronger role for LEADER/CLLD in the next EU budget.
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ABOUT US
ELARD is an international non-profit association set up to improve the quality of life in rural areas and to maintain their population through sustainable, integrated local development.
The distinctive feature of ELARD is that it brings together Local Action Groups committed to involving all stakeholders in rural development at a local level. The European LEADER Association joins together almost 2600 Local Action Groups and Fisheries Local Action Groups from 29 countries, including from countries that are not members of the European Union but have adopted and are implementing the LEADER methodology:
Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Flanders Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Republic of Moldova, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine as an associate member.
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