On November 22-24, the ELARD seminar and 15th General Assembly took place in Estonia, Laulasmaa Spa. The main aim of the event was to summarize Estonian Presidency, decide ELARD positions for the following years and elect new President, Vice-Presidents and Continue reading →

Proposals for a new European fund for community led local development have been launched by the 3rd European Rural Parliament, meeting at the vibrant village of Venhorst, in North Brabant, The Netherlands.

250 people representing rural communities in 40 European Continue reading →

European LEADER Association for Rural Development (ELARD) and Local Development Network (LDnet) organized a workshop “Communities as change agents: local development in the EU beyond 2020” at European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels on 10th Continue reading →

06^th of September 2017, Brussels

Summary compiled by Kristiina Tammets

The main aim of the meeting was to discuss about CLLD multifund implementation and exchange views between the European Commission and ELARD on the renewal of European Structural Continue reading →

This conference was organised to take stock of the results of the three-month consultation on the future of the common agricultural policy (CAP) launched by DG AGRI on 2nd February 2017. The videos of web streaming, the presentations and pictures Continue reading →

The European Commi

ssion Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development has recently published the Cork 2.0 Action Plan. This Action Plan outlines planned and completed activities across the EU to implement each of the ten policy orientations of Continue reading →

31st May at 11:00-14:30
Brussels, Belgium
Trèves Building, 74 rue de Trèves, 7th floor, room: TRE 770

Goals of the gathering:
To bring forward the impact of integrated rural development and LEADER/CLLD;
To get to know overall EU political agenda Continue reading →