On ELARD General Assembly 9th of December a new council was appointed. New council-members in the council are Stefan Niedermoser from Austrian LEADER Forum and Jan Florian from the Czech LEADER Network. Re-elected was Anita Selicka, Latvian Rural Forum and Continue reading →

Green deal, Covid-19 impact on rural areas, need to promote local development policy, cooperation with rural youth – these and a lot of other important issues were highlighted as important in 2020 and in future by European Rural Parliament partners Continue reading →

Do you want to be our administrative hero/heroine?

We are looking for an administrative coordination officer.

Duties to be filled:

• First mailing and phone contact
• Managing Members contact list,
• Homepage coordination and administration
• Manages Member fees
• Manages Council, Members meetings Continue reading →

If your Local Action Group would like to give input to the Long term vision on Rural Areas, it is still possible until the 31st of January!

ENRD has worked out templates for local workshops that you can use in Continue reading →

On 6th of October, ELARD approached the commissioners in order to find out what measures are being considered by the Commission to provide a framework that makes it possible for the Member States to make use of the opportunities LEADER/CLLD Continue reading →

The Thematic Group met 2-3rd of December.

• The main aim of this meeting was to continue the discussions on the Foresight exercise in order to further develop the scenarios. These will form important building blocks for the EU Long-Term Vision Continue reading →

The annual conference was preparing common input to the long term vision on rural areas.

The presentations from the conference are now available in SHERPA website.
Also, you can watch the SHERPA video prepared and which will also displayed at Continue reading →

The Slovenian LEADER office has recently prepared two articles on LEADER/CLLD projects.

The first article is about the importance and strengthening of local self-sufficiency and short supply chains in rural areas trough the LEADER/CLLD approach.

The second article talks about Continue reading →

Press release of the European Committee of the Regions

The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the European Parliament Intergroup on Rural, Mountainous and Remote Areas (RUMRA)&smart villages at the European Parliament with the Continue reading →