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ENRD LEADER Thematic Lab: Maintaining and widening stakeholder engagement

Online

This virtual Thematic Lab explored the role of LEADER and LEADER Local Action Groups (LAGs) in maintaining and widening stakeholder engagement in their local areas to develop short and long-term responses to local challenges now and for the future.

Participants discussed alternative and innovative ways of working with local stakeholders, ensuring stakeholder engagement in local development. They also shared experiences of how LAGs are responding to the current COVID-19 crisis.

This was the fourth of a series of LEADER Thematic Labs, after the ones on Smart Villages, on Climate change mitigation and adaptation and on Youth and depopulation.

Background documents

Presentations & recordings

Zooming in, Peter Toth, ENRD Contact Point (here in audio version)
Key considerations from the European Commission's perspective, Karolina Jasinska, European Commission, DG AGRI
Widening stakeholder engagement at LAG level: Theory-U, lessons learnt, applications for the future, Mireille Groot Koerkamp, LAG Salland, the Netherlands (here in audio version)
Stakeholder engagement and its role in successful LEADER implementation – lessons learnt from Spanish LAGs, Maria José Murciano, REDR, Spain (here in audio version)
Widening and deepening LAG engagement at Member State level – various methods, Ulrika Holmgren, National Rural Network, Sweden (here in audio version)
Working with LAGs in a digital innovation hub – reasons, benefits, ways forward, Emilija Stojmenova Duh – 4PDIH, Andrej Medved, LAG Istra, Slovenia (here in audio version)
Introduction to the second session, Peter Toth, ENRD CP (here in audio version)
Maintaining stakeholder engagement and ensuring RD policy delivery during the COVID-19 crisis, Marjeta Jeric, Managing Authority, Slovenia (here in audio version)
NRN support to crisis response in rural communities, Ana Pires da Silva, National Rural Network, Portugal (here in audio version)
What LAGs are saying on how COVID-19 is affecting their work, Marion Eckardt, ELARD
Working with LAGs in developing local responses to COVID-19, Emilija Stojmenova Duh, 4PDIH; Andrej Medved, LAG Istra (here in audio version)
ENRD mini-survey on LEADER, COVID-19 and stakeholder engagement

Publications

EU Rural Review 29 'LEADER Achievements'

Videos

LEADER Connects

LEADER Empowers

LEADER Innovates

ENRD LEADER playlist on YouTube

Dates:

04/06/2020 - 10:00 to 13:00

Event type:

Thematic Group meeting

Organiser:

ENRD Contact Point