The founding agreement of the first LEADER Local Action Group in China was signed on Thursday, 12th December in Xingguo, South China.

“It has been quite a journey to reach this point”, said Vice-President Marion Eckardt about the first rural Continue reading →

This year’s ELARD annual meeting held in the North of Portugal, in the beautiful historic town of Amarante, began November 25 with an introductory members workshop on the state of the art of LEADER/CLLD implementation and the preparation of the Continue reading →

The 4^th European Rural Parliament, hosted by Red Asturiana de Desarrollo Rural (READER), was held in Candás, Asturias, Spain, from November 6 to 9. All in all, 38 European countries from inside and outside the UE (*) were Continue reading →

The International Conference “Cooperation – Tool for the promoting of local development” held in Razlog, Bulgaria, from 22-24 October, organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry of Bulgaria and co-organized by the Association Bulgarian National LEADER Network, addressed Continue reading →

During the EWRC2019, LEADER France held the workshop-debate “Rural development at the heart of EU territorial cohesion” on October 10 in the presence of Irene Tolleret, Member of European Parliament, Kristiina Tammets, Vice-President of ELARD, François Galabrun, Director of LAG Continue reading →

In October, several ELARD members were engaged in organising as well as actively participating in several workshops and side-events in the European Week of Regions and Cities 2019 in Brussels.

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In the morning of October 9, around one hundred Continue reading →

On October 8, the Plenary Session of the European Committee of the Regions adopted unanimously the own-initiative opinion “The CoR’s contribution to the renewed Territorial Agenda, with special emphasis on community-led local development” from rapporteur Radim SRŠEŇ (CS/EPP), Regional Councilor Continue reading →

On October 17th at FAO Headquarters, SALSA will participate at a side event of the Committee on World Food Security entitled Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Systems for Family Farming: Multi-stakeholder processes to develop capacities to innovate for food and nutrition Continue reading →

Maria José Murciano, Coordinator of the Spanish Rural Development Network and member of the Council of ELARD has been attending last week the 2nd High-level Local and Regional Government Forum on Sustainable Development Goals and 2030 Agenda in Continue reading →

On 12 September, ELARD held a LEADER/CLLD seminar in Pärnu, Estonia, within the framework of European Rural Parliament theme work and as part of the international LINC conference. The primary goal of the seminar was to introduce the application of Continue reading →