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 →

The Future CAP was being discussed with three sub-issues: Update on the legislative process in the Parliament and in the Council including an update on the new green architecture,  Transition rules – RD implementation, and Developments on the CAP network. 

We managed to raise the voice for CLLD. There is a very clear and honest interest in real participation with the citizens of EU. That is, not just box-ticking, but co-creation. See below a wonderful compilation of the conference, Especially Continue reading →

As ELARD is one of the 3 co-initiators of the ERP, ELARD (Marion Eckardt and Kirsten Birke Lund)

visited Bruxelles together with ERCA (Staffan Nilsson, Va essa Halhead) and PREPARE (Aris Adlers,

Kim Smedslund, Goran Šoster, Leotrim Gërmizaj). At Continue reading →