ELARD has recently established a unit ELARD Knowledge Exchange Platform (EKEP) that one of the main activities is to promote ELARD participation in various expert groups, project teams and consortiums, e.g. Horizon 2020, European Commission neighbourhood programmes, and other Continue reading →

Interested in learning more about LEADE/CLLD? Check out this playlist on youtube:

The thematic Lab took place on 4.6.2020. It was filled with interesting presentations from different actors on engaging stakeholders, and you can find all material here.

More than 50 participants from 22 different memberstates were present.

See ELARDs presentation Continue reading →

After two Thematic Group (TG) ‘labs’ focusing on ideas for the support framework for Smart Villages in the future CAP Strategic Plans in Finland and Poland, the Thematic Group organised the last lab to provide space Continue reading →

Now available in your own language!!! (Or at least, 21 different languages)

REDR in cooperation with ELARD have launched a macrosite to know first-hand the opinion of the European rural population about the future of their territories. Continue reading →

Time to adjust: On our first virtual general assembly 33 participants from 24 countries were present. We had some very interesting latest news and possibility for dialogue with commission representatives from DG AGRI, REGIO and EMPLOY. Apart from that, the Continue reading →

ELARD is mainifesting solidarity between rural communities around Europe on 9th of May

In the midst of Covid-19 crisis, ELARD Aisbl representing 26 national networks and around 2 200 Local Action Groups – covering an area with a population Continue reading →

Do you want to know how (F)LAGs around Europe are coping in the current crisis? Head on to the report of this survey, carried out 26/3-21/4.2020. In the network survey part, 23 national LEADER-networks responded.  The (F)LAG part of Continue reading →

The organisations of the European Countryside Movement stress the importance of rural territories for the recovery, and await the
establishment of a European Rural Agenda and give reccommendations in this position.

Read the position: Building on the resilience of rural Continue reading →